{"id":512075,"date":"2026-05-12T06:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=512075"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:16:51","slug":"lebron-james-declines-to-talk-about-his-future-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-declines-to-talk-about-his-future-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James declines to talk about his future in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James, whose record-setting 23<sup>rd<\/sup> campaign finished with a 115-110 defeat to the OKC in Game 4 of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round sweep of Los Angeles, didn\u2019t reveal if he will continue his career in the NBA and if he does, if he will be playing for the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe you already asked me so many times about retirement, and I already answered. The answer is the same: I don\u2019t know,\u201d shared LeBron. We just lost the series against Oklahoma City, and right now I don\u2019t know what will happen in the future with my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers superstar was on the court for 40 minutes against the Thunder and finished with 24 points and a match-high 12 boards as the Lakers led in the final 60 seconds vs. the defending NBA champs, but could not finish the job and win even one game in the West Conference \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the best that I could do on the court,\u201d added James, who missed a driving floater attempt with less than 21 seconds on the clock until the end of the match, and Los Angeles trailing by 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James on his future:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don\u2019t know what the future holds for me &#8230; I\u2019ll go back and recalibrate with my family and talk with them, spend some time with them, and when the time comes, you guys will know what I decide to do.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zTpxHWi00T\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zTpxHWi00T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Underdog NBA (@UnderdogNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnderdogNBA\/status\/2054082255903920629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James, whose record-setting 23rd campaign finished with a 115-110 defeat to the OKC in Game 4 of the 2nd-round sweep of Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":512076,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The superstar talked about the Lakers playoff elimination.","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\/512075"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512077,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512075\/revisions\/512077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512075"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=512075"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=512075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}