{"id":81183,"date":"2025-12-25T23:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81183\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:41:19","slug":"lakers-star-lebron-james-shares-his-thoughts-on-playing-an-nba-game-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81183\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers star LeBron James shares his thoughts on playing an NBA game on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA saves some of its biggest games of the year for Christmas Day. LeBron James<\/a>, one of the biggest stars in the history of the sport, regularly is scheduled to play on Dec. 25, including this season.<\/p>\n

While it is an honor to be featured in a Christmas Day game, it\u2019s an honor James would be just fine not receiving.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old was recently asked his thoughts about playing on Dec. 25 ahead of the Lakers\u2019 game against the Rockets on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d much rather be at home with my family,\u201d LeBron James said<\/a>. \u201cBut I mean, it\u2019s a game. It\u2019s the game I love. It\u2019s a game I watched when I was a kid on Christmas Day, watching a lot of the greatest play the game on Christmas. It\u2019s always been an honor to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeBron James is in his 23rd NBA season and is set to play on Christmas Day for the 19th time on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Lakers (19-9) are hosting the Rockets (17-10) at 8 p.m. in a Western Conference showdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I\u2019m going to be completely honest, I would like to be home on the couch with my family all throughout the day,\u201d James said. \u201cBut my number is called; our number is called. So we have to go out and perform and I look forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA saves some of its biggest games of the year for Christmas Day. LeBron James, one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-81183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}