Following NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s public plea to LeBron James, one insider has revealed just how much LeBron doesn’t care.
Silver basically came out and said that with James’ lingering decision about which team he’ll sign with for next season, it’s holding up the entire NBA’s 2026-27 season schedule.
Brian Windhorst explained that LeBron doesn’t fit in with anyone else’s schedule, and he will be taking his sweet time with his free agency decision.
“This is one thing I can say with confidence,” Windhorst said on NBA Today. “LeBron does not care about holding the league up with his schedule. He will make them wait until he is good and ready to make a decision.”
Late last week, Silver publicly voiced his scheduling concerns, revealing that the league cannot finalize its major TV dates until the league knows where the 41-year-old James will be playing in Year 24.
“I guess all politics are local. The way I think about it is, we have to finish up the schedule,” Silver said during Fanatics Fest in New York. “We have to finish up the schedule, and where LeBron plays affects the schedule. So I would like him to make his announcement already, so we can finish the schedule. Because as you might imagine, the teams are calling us, the networks are calling us, and everybody wants to lock in the schedule. It will influence how we set the schedule, opening week, Christmas Day, etc. So I need him to make a decision.”
In the last couple of days, Miami have surged as the betting favorites to land LeBron.
Pat Riley made his intentions clear, explaining how the Heat ‘landed the plane’ with the Giannis Antetokounmpo signing, but hinted, “there’s another one we have to land.”
Wimdhorst said,“Pat Riley said, we landed one plane, now we got to land the other. I don’t think he was talking about KCP. I think they landed flight 7 today. I think they’d like to put No.6 back into circulation. Pat came out & let it be known. We’re not done. We want [LeBron].”
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