{"id":239407,"date":"2025-10-20T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239407\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:35:07","slug":"fan-drops-lawsuit-against-lebron-james-over-second-decision-fakeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239407\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan drops lawsuit against LeBron James over ‘Second Decision’ fakeout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LeBron James<\/a> no longer has to worry about having to appear in small claims court over the hundreds of dollars a Lakers fan spent on tickets<\/a> while under the impression that the superstar player was retiring at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Norwalk resident Andrew Garcia filed Monday with Los Angeles County Superior Court to dismiss without prejudice a claim he had filed earlier this month seeking to recoup his money after a big announcement teased by James on social media ended up having nothing to do with his NBA career, now going into its 23rd season, coming to an end.<\/p>\n

Garcia said Monday he decided to drop the case after he accepted an offer from the PrizePicks fantasy sports app. The company has deposited promo funds in the amount of $865.66 \u2014 the full amount Garcia spent on two tickets to the Lakers\u2019 game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 31, 2026 \u2014 into Garcia\u2019s PrizePicks account, according to documentation viewed by The Times.<\/p>\n

Garcia said will be able to cash out any winnings he receives off those transactions. In addition, he said, PrizePicks will be giving him tickets to a Lakers game of his choice and some other merchandise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have to dismiss the case\u201d in order to receive the deal from PrizePicks, Garcia said, \u201cbut I chose to, because I was like, you know, you guys are fully compensating me for my loss, and then some. There\u2019s no reason for me to further pursue this, because then it would look like I\u2019m double-dipping, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

PrizePicks vice president of communications Elisa Richardson confirmed the deal in an email to The Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reached out to Andrew after seeing the news and finding out he was a PrizePicks player,\u201d Richardson wrote. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking for ways to surprise and delight our players.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Oct. 6, James posted<\/a> on social media that he would announce \u201cthe decision of all decisions\u201d the next day. The NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer also included a video clip teasing \u201cThe Second Decision,\u201d a reference to 2010\u2019s \u201cThe Decision<\/a>,\u201d in which James famously announced his intention to play for the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

Garcia wasn\u2019t the only person who thought a retirement announcement was imminent \u2014 and he also wasn\u2019t the only one who wanted to be sure to see James on his farewell tour. According to Victory Live, which analyzes verified ticket resale data across the secondary market, ticket sales for Lakers games jumped 25 times higher after James\u2019 teaser post and the average price for those tickets increased from $280 to $399. <\/p>\n

Ticket sales and prices returned to normal soon after it was revealed that \u201cThe Second Decision\u201d was nothing more than a Hennessy ad<\/a>. In his lawsuit, Garcia claimed James owed him the amount paid for the tickets because of \u201cfraud, deception, misrepresentation, and any and all basis of legal recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James no longer has to worry about having to appear in small claims court over the hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-239407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407","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=239407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}