James has averaged 22.0 points, 7.1 assists, 5.8 rebounds and 1.1 steals a game this season for the Lakers, who rank fifth in the Western Conference at 33-21.<\/p>\n
After battling sciatica at the start of the campaign, James says health will be a crucial factor for the Lakers in the remainder of a campaign that has seen star Luka Doncic and others battling injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur success is going to come down to obviously I think our health, our coach staff putting us in the right position,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re going to give us the game plan every night. But when it comes to what we have to work with, we have to actually go out and see it. We haven\u2019t been able to have an opportunity much this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
James has already mentioned that he would like to become an NBA team owner when his playing days are done, but that\u2019s far from his only post-playing pursuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that I have on the table that I can tap into if I would like to, that being one of them,\u201d James said of NBA team ownership.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s other ventures as well I\u2019ll continue to explore and see what will engage me and motivate me in a post-career. But right now I\u2019m still locked in on what\u2019s going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whatever James will be doing in the next 10 to 15 years, expect it to be memorable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what I want to do at 45, 50 or 55 will be a lot of creating great vibes and fun with my family and my friends. That\u2019s one of my passions, great memories that will last forever,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor sure, that\u2019s the most important for me, creating things that we will never, ever forget. My family and my friends, I\u2019m looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James has averaged 22.0 points, 7.1 assists, 5.8 rebounds and 1.1 steals a game this season for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[245222,10960,64,63,41265,137024,8849,21503,1642,47573,47572,20349,590,1917,38633,6027,8050,1793,161,16372,85,171338,22132,19004,26481,1050],"class_list":["post-484156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-23rd","tag-as","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beyond","tag-clue","tag-days","tag-future","tag-he","tag-james","tag-lebron","tag-mind","tag-nba","tag-plans","tag-play","tag-projects","tag-record","tag-retirement","tag-season","tag-some","tag-sports","tag-superstar","tag-talks","tag-this","tag-weighs","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484156","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=484156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}