Amidst all the noise about the possibility of LeBron James wanting to leave the Los Angeles Lakers soon, neither he nor his agent, Rich Paul, has asked the Lakers to trade him or buy out his contract. In all likelihood, such noise is much ado about nothing.

The Los Angeles Lakers have been heavily in the NBA rumor mill over the last week. Most of those rumors have been connected to the future of superstar forward LeBron James. James decided to opt into the final year of his contract with the Lakers,