{"id":475259,"date":"2026-02-18T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:40:08","slug":"caitlin-clark-says-id-rather-retire-than-follow-lebron-james-diet-change-this-is-why-hes-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475259\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Says &#8216;I&#8217;d Rather Retire&#8217; Than Follow LeBron James&#8217; Diet Change, &#8216;This is Why He&#8217;s Him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark doesn&#8217;t plan on emulating LeBron James&#8217; diet change while preparing for the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After the Los Angeles Lakers star <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25397791-lakers-lebron-james-talks-eliminating-alcohol-diet-changes-during-back-injury-rehab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">revealed<\/a> that he gave up eating cookies and drinking wine while recovering from a back injury, Clark reacted to his admission in an Instagram comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I&#8217;d rather retire than do this,&#8221; Clark wrote. &#8220;This is why he&#8217;s him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">On Tuesday&#8217;s episode of the\u00a0Mind the Game\u00a0podcast, James told co-host Steve Nash that the change was made while he was recovering from <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46544930\/lakers-star-lebron-james-sidelined-3-4-weeks-sciatica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sciatica on his right side<\/a> to open the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;So I wasn&#8217;t playing, obviously, as the season started,&#8221; James said. &#8220;So I needed to give up something. I gotta sacrifice something and I actually did two things that I very love, and that is drinking wine and my chocolate chip cookies for dessert. I completely took it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As for Clark, injuries limited her to just 13 appearances during her 2025 campaign after she suited up in all 40 regular-season contests as a rookie. She averaged 16.5 points and 8.8 assists to go along with 1.6 steals per game, shooting 36.7 percent from the field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Now, Clark is looking to bounce back and help the Fever build upon their 2025 playoff run after they advanced to the WNBA Semifinals for the first time since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark doesn&#8217;t plan on emulating LeBron James&#8217; diet change while preparing for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-475259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475259","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=475259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}