EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 The question drew a wry laugh from LeBron James.<\/p>\n
Does he intend to try to extend his NBA career long enough to play with his younger son Bryce, the same way he did for his elder son, Bronny? Could he envision a scenario where he shares a court with the 18-year-old incoming University of Arizona freshman?<\/p>\n
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\u201cNo, I\u2019m not waiting on Bryce,\u201d James said Monday at Lakers media day. \u201cHe has his own timeline. I\u2019ve got my timeline. I don\u2019t know if they quite match up.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was emblematic of the tone James struck on the eve of his 23rd NBA training camp. The 40-year-old described himself as \u201csuper invested\u201d in teaming with Luka Doncic to compete for a championship this season because he doesn\u2019t \u201cknow when the end is, but it\u2019s a lot sooner than later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that\u2019s still pushing me is the fact that the love of the game is still high and the love of the process is even higher,\u201d James said. \u201cThat\u2019s what continues to push me to play this game. It\u2019s really that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time in his NBA career, James is entering a season on the final year of his contract. He did not commit to returning next season.<\/p>\n
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When asked if reporters would see him at Lakers media day again next fall, James laughed once more and said only, \u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 The question drew a wry laugh from LeBron James. Does he intend to try…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7565,6306,111175,3013,3014,355,99],"class_list":["post-190551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bronny","tag-lakers","tag-lakers-media-day","tag-lebron-james","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}