{"id":457617,"date":"2026-02-04T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457617\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:20:15","slug":"report-lebron-expected-to-stay-with-lakers-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457617\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: LeBron expected to stay with Lakers for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is expected to finish out the 2025-26 campaign as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47820642\/james-expects-stay-lakers-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Dave McMenamin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>James is in the final year of his contract and hasn&#8217;t announced whether this will be his last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old&#8217;s agent said in the offseason that four teams showed interest in acquiring the four-time MVP, but James, whose contract contains a full no-trade clause, hadn&#8217;t requested a move. Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka said in September that the organization would &#8220;love&#8221; for James to retire with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>A <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3466169\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3466169\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> last week indicated that James&#8217; hometown Cleveland Cavaliers would welcome back the Akron, Ohio, native if he wanted to return for a third stint with the club next season. The Cavs <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3436483\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3436483\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> acquired James Harden from the L.A. Clippers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>James is averaging 21.9 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 6.6 assists in 31 games in 2025-26. The Lakers enter Tuesday sitting sixth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James is expected to finish out the 2025-26 campaign as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-457617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}