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Who said James s not good? No one can do it with a James-style contract signing!

9:03pm, 21 July 2025【Basketball】

No one expected that James, the oldest player in the NBA, was still at his peak and still entered the top 10 in the league's star ranking. This really makes people sigh that James' peak period is too long. You should know that James can still sign the league's maximum salary at the age of 41, which is enough to prove his strength. Recently, US media have also begun to collectively praise James. Judging from James' signing model, James is the number one person in history.

James' signing model is no longer the mainstream trend in the NBA, because it is difficult for anyone to do it, especially at his age. James's signing model is mainly based on short-term 1+1 contracts, and allows players to have player options to achieve the maximum interests of both parties. This obviously requires a player to have a healthy state and huge influence under the strong strength of his player. Although James did not continue to use this method to sign in the new season, he chose to execute the player option, perhaps this is a signal that he is about to retire.

Because for outside speculation, this approach seems to be one of the signals that James will retire after the end of next season. In this regard, US media believes that James has always been at the peak of his career and has always had the strength of a top superstar, so he can accept the method of short-term contracts.

However, the new trend in the NBA today is that bosses no longer make large-scale short-term investments, but tend to be more inclined to develop long-term planning. Because in the eyes of NBA bosses, only James can do it, because only James can maintain his peak year by year and is almost immune to major injuries. So it is not that short-term maximum salary contracts are no longer popular, but because no one can copy James' miracle and search through the entire NBA history. Apart from James, it is impossible to find a second person in history, not to mention that James's career length is unparalleled.