{"id":191537,"date":"2025-09-30T05:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191537\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:08:07","slug":"lebron-james-on-what-he-worked-on-during-the-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191537\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James on what he worked on during the offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

LeBron James is heading into uncharted waters. Not only is he about to start his 23rd season, which will set a new NBA record, but for the first time, he will not be the best or most important player on his team. That title now belongs to the 26-year-old Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n

As a result, James will have to play off the ball more often, as Doncic has become the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>‘ head honcho on offense. At media day on Monday, the 40-year-old joked about how he picked up golf this offseason, but he also said he worked on catch-and-shoot 3-pointers, presumably in anticipation of playing off the ball more than ever.<\/p>\n

One of the keys to James’ unprecedented longevity has been the recent improvement in his 3-point shooting. In his first 20 seasons, he shot a mediocre 34.5% from 3-point range, but last season, he made 37.6% of his attempts from that distance, and the season before that, he was at 41%.<\/p>\n

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As his athleticism continues to wane, having the ability to consistently hit treys, whether they’re the catch-and-shoot variety or contested treys off the dribble, will be critical to his attempts to remain a superstar-level player.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: LeBron James on what he worked on during the offseason<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James is heading into uncharted waters. Not only is he about to start his 23rd season, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[32539,3013,1055,3014,355,99,111577],"class_list":["post-191537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-dave-mcmenamin","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-uncharted-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191537","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=191537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}