{"id":447356,"date":"2023-07-28T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447356"},"modified":"2023-07-28T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:06:10","slug":"lakers-to-retire-lebron-james-jersey","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-to-retire-lebron-james-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers to retire LeBron James&#8217; jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is approaching the twilight of his illustrious career and it is only a matter of time before the 38-year-old call it a day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James\u2019 jersey will officially go up in the rafters<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who said it wouldn\u2019t can kick \ud83e\udea8 lmao. 3 franchises &#8211; 3 retired jerseys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8WVh11nn9O\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8WVh11nn9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udf97NBA\u2022Fan\ud83c\udf97 (@Klutch_23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Klutch_23\/status\/1684920543747686400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When he retires his legacy will spread throughout three teams &#8211; Cleveland, Miami and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The cavaliers and the Heat already announced that they will retire the No.23 and No.6 jerseys, respectively, and the Lakers will follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe standard for having your jersey retired as a Laker is when a player is inducted into the Hall-of-Fame. I have absolutely no doubt that LeBron will make it into the Basketball Hall-of-Fame,\u201d Lakers owner Jeanie Buss said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he does so, then we will retire his jersey. Knowing that he will make it into the Basketball Hall-of-Fame, he will have his Lakers jersey retired, no doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question remains which of the two jerseys will get the honor, since LeBron has worn both the No.6 and No.23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is approaching the twilight of his illustrious career and it is only a matter of time before the 38-year-old call it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":447357,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645],"acf":{"announce":"The 38-year-old legacy at Los Angeles will be cemented","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\/447356"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447356"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447356"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}