The marriage lasted eight years. There was love. There was a championship. There were champagne-soaked locker rooms and million-dollar memories. There were moments when it all felt like a movie, like Hollywood had somehow written an award-winning basketball script and cast the perfect leading man. And now? LeBron James might return for a 24th NBA season, but it might not be with the Lakers. Getty Images Now it feels like that dramatic scene from “Marriage Story.” Two exhausted people in a room together fighting to preserve something that has quietly expired. It’s time for the Lakers and LeBron James to get a divorce. Not because they hate each other. Not because the relationship failed completely. But because sometimes relationships survive past their expiration date when both sides are terrified of what comes next. LeBron may have admitted as much after the Lakers were swept out of the Western Conference semifinals by the reigning champion Thunder on Monday.…