{"id":439654,"date":"2023-07-13T03:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439654"},"modified":"2023-07-13T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:41:07","slug":"lebron-james-confirms-hell-play-for-lakers-next-season-during-espys","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-confirms-hell-play-for-lakers-next-season-during-espys\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James confirms he&#8217;ll play for Lakers next season during ESPYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will play next season for the Los Angeles Lakers. The 38-year-old NBA superstar confirmed the news on stage during The ESPYS on Wednesday night after accepting the record-breaking performance award for becoming the NBA\u2019s career scoring leader.<\/p>\n<p>When James he surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s mark, he shared his thoughts and hinted that he is not sure hot much left he&#8217;s got in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that moment I\u2019m asking myself if I can still play without cheating the game. Can I give everything to the game still? The truth is I\u2019ve been asking myself this question at the end of the season for a couple years now. I just never openly talked about it,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Listen, you can love me and I know some of you hate me as well. But the one thing you will always do is respect me and appreciate the way I approach the game and what I&#8217;ve given to this game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James during his ESPYS speech ?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZDrANEBss\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yZDrANEBss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPointsApp\/status\/1679314776080412672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care how many more points I score or what I can and cannot do on the floor. The real question for me is can I play without cheating this game? The day I can\u2019t give the game everything on the floor is the day I\u2019ll be done. Lucky for you guys that day is not today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, I still got something left,\u201d James said. \u201cA lot left.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will play next season for the Los Angeles Lakers. The 38-year-old NBA superstar confirmed the news on stage during The ESPYS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439657,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706,20292,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\"I still got something left\", he said","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439654"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439654"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}