LeBron James grinned at the question that, as he knew, appeared when AA Smile crossed his face when he was asked about the word “leaving”.
James hesitated, trying to answer this question during his session on the day of the Lakers on Monday.
He never gave a final answer about his future. He is going to join his 23rd season in the NBA, which will mean that James will play more seasons in the league than someone in history. He turns 41 years on December 30, but if there was a sign last season, James did not slow down.
When James was asked about his approach to this season, knowing that he was retired nearby, he seemed to not know how to answer.
“I mean, I don’t know,” he said. “I mean, I am excited today, I am excited about playing the game that I love for another season. And regardless of the trip, but this year the trip is not included, I am just super invested, because, as you just said, I do not know when the end, but I know that this is much earlier than later.
“So, being very grateful for the fact that I could come here, make another day of the media, talk with you, guys and do it all here, so the trip is just excited and everything that has prepared me this year.”
This summer, James used his player's version for $ 52.6 million to play with the leaker, the last year of his transaction. He did not sign the expansion with Lakers, which means that James will be a free agent after the 2025-26 season if he does not resign.
James is already a leading NBA scorer during a regular season with 42,184 points. He played the second largest game in the history of the regular season in history in 1562, only 50 behind the leader, Robert Parsh.
James scored an average of 24.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8.2 programs last season
It was clear that he was still at the top of his game.
“Things that still push me is the fact that the love of the game is still high,” James said. “The love of the process is even higher. So this is what continues to make me play this game. I mean, it is really so simple. I train and work on my body and try to bring my body as more than 100% every year, it looks like I can play at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level, at a high level. Long season.
James unites with another superstar in Luke Donchik, who signed a three -year extension of $ 165 million.
Donchich, 26 years old, is considered one of the best players in the league, which gives James a first -class running partner.
James was asked how much he has such a player as Donchich next to him will weigh his decision to resign.
“No, nah. How much do I go in my career? No. Zero, ”James said. “Motivation to be able to play with him every night, it is very motivated. This is what I am going to teach my body for. Every night I go out there and try to be the best player for him, and we are going to bounce off each other. But, as far as I weigh him and some other teammates, how far I go in my career. [Bronny and Bryce] Already left. … so this will be a solution between me, my wife [Savannah] And my daughter [Zhuri]This will not be a field: “Hey, a meeting with my teammates.” It won't be like that.
James and Austin Reeves have been comrades on the team for four years, and Reeves did not see a decline in his famous team comrade.
Reeves, who abandoned a four -year contract offer in the amount of 89.2 million dollars from Lakers during the summer, did not talk with James for retirement, but does not see that this will happen in the near future.
“Every time you see him, he has a big smile on his face, he is the largest child in the room, spends time well, and you must evaluate this for someone, who has been doing this for so long, 23 years,” said Reeves. “At some point, you feel that joy can be there. But every time you see him, it is rebuilding that he is here for one thing, and only one thing, and this needs to be defeated. But I don't know about retirement. He can play another 10 years. ”
James returns to the Lakers team, which was 50-32 last season and took third place at the Western Conference. Then Lakers lost in the first round of the play -off to the Minnesotsky Timber Volts.
But the Lakers was overestimated by adding the center of the deandra Aiton, the guard of Marcus Smart and Wing Jake Laraviya.
James won four NBA championships and longs for another.
“I don’t know, just to find out how many miles I have received before this game for 22 years, now it starts 23 years and still be able to play a high level in order to still be able to go there and can play games and be respectful on the floor,” James said.
“Personally, this is very humiliating and satisfies. Inspect who I can: the younger generation, my generation, generation after me, the future generation.
