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LeBron James is taking a step back from the court to contemplate his future, pondering where, and if, he will lace up for his 22nd NBA season.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> made headlines with the dismissal of coach Darvin Ham on Friday, marking the end of his two-season tenure. The choice of Ham’s successor, to be made by general manager Rob Pelinka, could play a pivotal role in James’ forthcoming decision.<\/p>\n

James faces several options: he could explore free agency, exercise his $51.4 million player option for the final year of his current contract, or even consider retirement at age 39.<\/p>\n

While the Lakers remain the -500 favorites at DraftKings as James’ potential team for the 2024-25 season, the sportsbook is also entertaining odds on nine other NBA destinations for the basketball icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LeBron James is taking a step back from the court to contemplate his future, pondering where, and if, he will lace up for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":482021,"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":"He has the option to become a free agent or exercise his $51.4 million option for the final year of his current contract","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\/482686"}],"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=482686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482687,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482686\/revisions\/482687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482686"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482686"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}