The New York Knicks and the rest of the NBA are keeping an eye on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers after the King accepted his $52 million player option.

Rich Paul added fuel to this fire with comments about LeBron wanting to compete for a championship in this late stage of his career. This discourse has also stemmed from the fact that LA has a new young superstar to build around for the future in Luka Doncic.

It wasn't the first headline move involving the Lakers this offseason, as LeBron James decided to opt in to his $52.6 million one-year deal with the franchise. RELATED: New York Knicks hire great regular season coach,

This start to free agency is as close to spotless as it can get for a Knicks team that had clear goals to improve the team's depth.

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A month after the New York Knicks elected to move on from coach Tom Thibodeau, who led the team to their first conference finals in a quarter century, the franchise is expected to hire two-time Coach of the Year Mike Brown,