 all right, where am I going to go? If I'm going to do a one-year, two-year, three-year, where can I win a championship in that amount of time? Knowing that that's not going to be the Lakers, why stick around? If he leaves, yeah, it's hard, but at least it forces the Lakers to start a reset to actually build the world's future, and then he can figure out where he wants to play that he thinks by adding him makes them immediately a championship contender. Wouldn't he find a better shot at a chip if he was on a different roster next year?