{"id":440390,"date":"2025-05-02T21:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440390"},"modified":"2025-05-02T21:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:40:29","slug":"lebron-james-its-not-my-job-to-convince-luka-doncic-to-stay-with-the-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-its-not-my-job-to-convince-luka-doncic-to-stay-with-the-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James: \u201cIt\u2019s not my job to convince Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to stay with the Lakers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"1237\">Speaking with <em data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"955\">ESPN<\/em>, <strong data-start=\"957\" data-end=\"973\">LeBron James<\/strong> made it clear he won\u2019t try to influence <strong data-start=\"1014\" data-end=\"1029\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong> in his upcoming contract decision with the <strong data-start=\"1073\" data-end=\"1095\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>. \u201c<strong data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1119\">That ain&#8217;t my job<\/strong>,\u201d said the 40-year-old superstar. \u201cLuka knows how I feel about him. This trade was about the future, not about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1484\">James emphasized the difference in timelines: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1340\">He\u2019s 26, I\u2019m 40. He can\u2019t base his career off mine<\/strong>. I hope he stays \u2014 the fans love him, the city has embraced him, and we love him as a teammate and brother. But ultimately, it\u2019s his decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James tells ESPN he won\u2019t pressure Don\u010di\u0107, citing age and career timelines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440390"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440390"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440390"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}