Kyrie Irving was at Crypto Arena – and if you’re D’Angelo Russell getting ready to play a game, that had to be something to look over and see Kyrie there while Kyrie and LeBron are doing their handshakes – and some wondered if this was a leverage play to get the Lakers to make a move to get Irving. ![]() I think this is more about potentially maybe a little bit of leverage. The biggest thing to me that I thought of is when he’s healthy, he’s still one of the top players in the NBA. Scotto: It was certainly a taxing year for him mentally and physically. I suspect LeBron will play at least one more year, if not a couple more. I think for the greats, you rarely see them go out when they still have this much left in the tank. ![]() Ultimately, he’s too good to retire at this point. I know most people with the team expect it, and I think this is him sorting through some things. My read on the situation is I expect him to be back. We also know he likes the drama, and that Instagram story kind of fed into that of adding further intrigue into what he’ll do. We know LeBron is very calculated and likes to be specific with certain things. Nine times out of 10, that LeBron game gets his team a win.įor him, I think he was weighing a lot at the time. For him to drop a 40-point near triple-double and the Lakers to still get swept, I’m sure some part of him is wrestling with his basketball mortality. ![]() We’ve seen LeBron come through time and again in elimination games. I think it was just an exhaustion thing and heat of the moment thing. Maybe he does the Jordan and retires for a year and then comes back to play with Bronny in the 2024-25 season. I don’t know if that is LeBron hinting that he needs a few months off or a season off. It was off the album where Jay-Z was retiring at the time and taking a little break, and he came back and dropped multiple albums since then. I thought the Jay-Z lyrics he quoted were interesting. I pegged it in a mailbag we did around 10 percent that he’s not back due to retirement or playing for another team, but that might even be a little high. The Lakers are planning their offseason with the mindset that LeBron is going to be back. To go that route at the end of the press conference and say he has a lot to think about with his future in basketball.Īs I reported at The Athletic, everyone I’ve talked to with and around the Lakers expects him to be back. That’s for you guys to do.” I’ll review them when my career’s over. I asked him a similar question to the one that concluded the press conference, and he told me, “I don’t think about my seasons. He was asked if this team is a contender for next season, and he said he hadn’t even thought about next season yet. I think he was hinting at it throughout the press conference, where he wouldn’t talk about next season. I was there front row, and I’ve rewatched it a couple of times on YouTube and going through it like film pausing, rewinding and factoring in his relationships with certain reporters. If you talk to anyone around the league, most people think LeBron is ultimately going to be back next season with the Lakers going for a title run if they can.īuha: I think it was a premeditated decision to leave the cryptic breadcrumbs he left at the end of that press conference. Scotto: I wasn’t expecting LeBron James to give a cryptic end-of-the-season availability leaving his future a little bit up in the air with some things to think about.
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