LeBron James has sparked a flurry of speculation on social media after saying he planned to announce his \u201csecond decision\u201d on Tuesday, with rumours rife that the LA Lakers star could be about to retire.<\/p>\n
James posted a nine-second video on X, showing him walking forward to sit in a chair opposite an unnamed person.<\/p>\n
The accompanying caption read: \u201cThe decision of all decisions. October 7th. 12pm EST. (saluting emoji) (crown emoji) #TheSecondDecision.\u201d<\/p>\n
The video\u2019s set-up mimicked the look of \u201cThe Decision,\u201d a July 8, 2010, television special during which James revealed he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign as a free agent with the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n
James famously told interviewer Jim Gray, \u201cI\u2019m going to take my talents to South Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old has not revealed whether the coming season will be his last in the NBA, so many responding to the \u201cSecond Decision\u201d tease wondered whether the four-time MVP would be announcing his exit plans.<\/p>\n
Others guessed that perhaps it was a marketing ploy designed to promote one of the many companies with which James has endorsement deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James has sparked a flurry of speculation on social media after saying he planned to announce his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1017,7565,56668,8174,118487,7640,3013,8173,355,118484,118486,99,118485,118483,20433],"class_list":["post-206377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-arizona","tag-bronny","tag-bryce-james","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-jim-gray","tag-la-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-robert-parish","tag-south-beach","tag-sports","tag-the-decision","tag-theseconddecision","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206377","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=206377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}