NBA News Roundup: 16th July - LeBron James meets with Luke Walton, set to miss Team USA minicamp 

#2 LeBron James meets with Luke Walton for the first time since signing

Cleveland Cavaliers v Los Angeles Lakers

While LeBron James may have attended the Lakers’ Summer League game in Las Vegas on Sunday to support his future teammates, there was a bigger reasoning behind his trip to the Thomas and Mack Center: his first meeting with Lakers head coach Luke Walton.

James met with Walton for the first time over the weekend, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne reported on Monday. James and Walton had only texted since James agreed to a four-year deal with the Lakers earlier this month.

Walton is favourably impressed by James' demeanour so far, and he said as much to the press.

“He’s about the team,” Walton told ESPN. “He’s about doing things the right way, and he’s about winning. I can work with those qualities.”

Walton was actually selected in the same draft class as James back in 2003, and has been reaching out to former coaches and players since James agreed to the four-year, $153.3 million deal — including Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue and Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.

“I’ll just tell them LeBron’s easy,” Lue told ESPN’s Dave McMenamin earlier this month ahead of his breakfast meeting with Walton. "People get this whole thing built up like he’s hard to coach. It’s not. LeBron’s not the problem. It’s the outside tension that’s the problem. Just put added pressure immediately on the coaches, on his teammates. Now everything you do is under a microscope. So it’s going to be a totally different change for the Lakers. They’ll be able to handle it.”

So while it will definitely be a new challenge for Walton to coach the best basketball player in the world, he is doing his fullest to get up to speed. And he should do just fine, considering he oversaw the Warriors' 24-game winning streak with MVP Steph on it.