I actually think LeBron is great but there is always more going on with him than just what he's saying. I could see this having to do with where the league is at as far as their announcement to expand to Vegas and Seattle more than how LeBron is feeling or what he thinks of the roster around him. If the league wants to announce the expansion this off season then LeBron probably wants to be announced as the majority owner of the Vegas team and therefore would need to retire. Maybe it is all about being extremely frustrated that his team got swept out of the conference finals but if that's the thing, I think he'll cool off and get ready for next season. They'll have him, AD, Beasley if they want him, Bamba if they want him, Vando, rights to match on Rui and Reeves if they want to, they have Bird rights for DLo, they can give Lonnie Walker about 8M which I don't think anyone else will and get ring chasers that just want to suit up with LeBron for the purple and piss (as many of you like to call it). Then they have the 17th pick in this draft too. We'll see what LBJ does but regardless of what he does, there will be a lot of reasons for why he does it that we can't see. That's not me saying anything bad about LeBron, the dude is just really really smart and has a lot of things going at once.
All this talk about him wanting to play with his son and now we're supposed to believe he's actually thinking about retiring? Not falling for it.
Hard to take anything reported seriously within 24 hours of being swept out of the playoffs. This is from Chris Haynes. We all know he will write anything to get clicks.
He's had a few years the Lakers don't even make the playoffs. Getting this group to the WCF, beating the 2 seed and beating defending GS champs and scoring 40 in the final game while being brilliant is a nice way to go out. Might realize he is very unlikely to top it. He doesn't have much to gain with even winning a title. He wins one or two more titles he's still the 2nd best player in history as he is now. Probably crazy grueling to physically prepare his body at 39, he knows it's very possible he won't be this healthy again. His quotes explain playing with his son well. Its kind of a distraction and maybe not in his son's interest. Plus his son won't play in 2023-24 anyways so if anything he could always play with him the following year. Add it all up it makes a ton of sense for him to walk away now. I'd probably put odds at 50 50.
He would retire for 2023-24 and take the year off. Then his son gets drafted wherever and LeBron kind of stays out of the way for the first half year of that. Once his son is playing some he comes back for the end of his rookie year or maybe his whole sophomore year and does the Nike son and dad tour. Maybe he even does a solo final chapter tour for a year after that to try and latch on to a contender for another title. So no I don't think this is him calling it quits for professional basketball for good like Melo just did. But this might be him calling it quits of trying to carry a franchise. This is LeBron realizing he is done with the grind of playing 82 games, he really had tons of things break perfect this year for him to still be able to do it, unlikely that happens again. I just see him realizing its a grueling grind for an entire season, Anthony Davis isn't going to carry that offense as he thought when he first came there, they aren't going to have a likely path to win a title next year. Time for him to move on to the final chapter of his playing career.
I dont think Bronny is that great of a prospect. His younger brother is apparently better but he's too far away.
I was wondering about this the other day…. Obviously there have been some kids who grew up to outshine their role player dads, but has any grown up to be as good or better than their All Star dads? Sabonis’ kid will have a better NBA career but not a better career overall. The Pippen and Shaq kids both suck.
Dell Curry was never an All Star, but he was 6th Man Of The Year... And of course, Cheryl Miller's little brother was pretty good...
Decision 3.0? He can't just walk away to another team next season, he is still under contract. He could ask for a trade or retire for next season like Sly said and then come back. I think he's just blowing some steam. He will be on the Lakers next season joined by Kyrie Irving and Draymond Green.
