{"id":1936097,"date":"2023-05-23T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-contemplates-retirement-after-last-second-blunder-ends-lakers-season\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:55:59","slug":"lebron-james-contemplates-retirement-after-last-second-blunder-ends-lakers-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-contemplates-retirement-after-last-second-blunder-ends-lakers-season\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James considers retiring after Lakers&#8217; season ends with last-second mistake."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flebron-james-contemplates-retirement-after-last-second-blunder-ends-lakers-season%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>LeBron James Questions Future After Lakers&#8217; Playoff Exit<\/h2>\n<p>LeBron James scored a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-secretly-obtained-calls-emails-from-cnn-reporter-report\/\" title=\"Trump DOJ Secretly Obtained Calls, Emails From CNN Reporter: REPORT\">personal record<\/a> of 31 points in the first half of Game 4, but missed two potential tying shots in the final minute as the Denver Nuggets ended the Lakers\u2019 season with a 113-111 victory. James finished with 40 points, 10 rebounds, nine assists, and immense frustration after Los Angeles\u2019 remarkable late-season surge ended with four consecutive defeats. Although James spoke about himself as part of the Lakers next season, he also said he hasn\u2019t made up his mind.<\/p>\n<h3>Uncertain Future<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens going forward,\u201d James said in the final answer of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-wire-americans-left-behind-in-afghanistan-gavin-newsom-enlists-hollywoods-help-sports-teams-honor-13-fallen-service-members\/\" title=\"Morning Wire: Americans Left Behind In Afghanistan, Gavin Newsom Enlists Hollywood\u2019s Help, Sports Teams Honor 13 Fallen Service Members\">postgame news conference<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve got a lot to think about, to be honest. Just for me personally going forward with the game of basketball, I\u2019ve got a lot to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James is under contract for $46.9 million next season with the Lakers, but he is in charge of his future after surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-contemplates-retirement-after-last-second-blunder-ends-lakers-season\/\" title=\"LeBron James considers retiring after Lakers' season ends with last-second mistake.\">career scoring record earlier<\/a> this year. He hasn\u2019t previously suggested much personal conflict about finishing his contract alongside Anthony Davis, and his play hasn\u2019t significantly declined after two decades in the NBA \u2014 although his health has grown less sturdy, particularly in his balky feet and ankles.<\/p>\n<h3>Disappointing End to the Season<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about availability for me and keeping my mind sharp, and things of that nature,\u201d James said. \u201cBeing present on the floor, being present in the locker room and bus rides and plane rides, things of that nature. It\u2019s challenging, for sure. It was a very challenging season for me, for our ballclub, and obviously we know whatever went on early on [in the Lakers\u2019 2-10 start to the season]. It was cool, a pretty cool ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James missed a month of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-posts-worst-ratings-since-2007-despite-homebound-audience\/\" title=\"Super Bowl Posts Worst Ratings Since 2007 Despite Homebound Audience\">regular season<\/a> with a foot injury down the stretch, but he returned with a series of stellar playoff performances while the Lakers knocked off second-seeded Memphis and eliminated defending champion Golden State. That didn\u2019t matter much to James, whose frustration broke through at several points after Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to say it\u2019s a successful year, because I don\u2019t play for anything besides winning championships at this point in my career,\u201d James said. \u201cYou know, I don\u2019t get a kick out of making a conference [finals] appearance. I\u2019ve done it a lot, and it\u2019s not fun to me to not be able to be a part of getting to the [NBA] Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Reflecting on His Career<\/h3>\n<p>One major obstacle to any retirement thoughts is his long-stated desire to play an NBA season alongside his son, Bronny, who will be a freshman at USC this fall and couldn\u2019t join the league until the fall of 2024 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I\u2019ll reflect on my career when I\u2019m done, but I don\u2019t know,\u201d James said when asked to assess his 20th season. \u201cThe only thing I concern myself with is being available to my teammates, and I don\u2019t like the fact that I didn\u2019t play as many games as I would have liked because of injury. That\u2019s the only thing I care about, is being available to my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James had his highest-scoring postseason half in his 20th NBA season&#8217;s final game. However, after his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, were swept out of the Western Conference finals, he questioned how much longer he would chase history. James set a personal record with 31 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1936098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[5020,5334,9936,27402,7815,4953,11741,5793],"class_list":["post-1936097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-considers","tag-james","tag-lakers","tag-last-second","tag-lebron","tag-mistake","tag-retiring","tag-season"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}