{"id":193711,"date":"2025-10-06T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193711\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:41:09","slug":"lebron-teases-2nd-major-decision-oct-7-amid-retirement-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193711\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron teases 2nd major &#8216;decision&#8217; Oct. 7 amid retirement rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James set social media ablaze by cryptically announcing that he&#8217;ll make a &#8220;decision of all decisions&#8221; Tuesday at 12 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>James shared a viral video on X and referred to it as &#8220;The Second Decision&#8221; on Monday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The decision of all decisions. October 7th. 12pm EST. \ud83e\udee1\ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheSecondDecision?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TheSecondDecision<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1uop8sIU25\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1uop8sIU25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1975258187046789292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nature of James&#8217; upcoming announcement is unclear. The four-time Finals MVP turns 41 in December and has only one year left on his contract with the Lakers. He left his NBA future open-ended during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s also been speculated that James&#8217; &#8220;second decision&#8221; isn&#8217;t related to basketball at all. Tuesday marks the start of Amazon&#8217;s Prime Day, a campaign that James has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingJames\/status\/1934963512347939017\" rel=\"nofollow\">promoted<\/a> previously while also linking it to questions about his basketball future.<\/p>\n<p>James&#8217; &#8220;decision of all decisions&#8221; undoubtedly evokes his original decision in 2010, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Afpgnb_9bA4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> his intentions to join the Miami Heat in one of the biggest free-agent choices in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-time All-Star has proved age is just a number, posting a strong 2024-25 season with averages of 24.4 points, 8.2 assists, and 7.8 rebounds per game across 70 appearances.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James set social media ablaze by cryptically announcing that he&#8217;ll make a &#8220;decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-193711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}