{"id":462167,"date":"2025-09-30T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=462167"},"modified":"2025-09-30T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:51:08","slug":"lebron-james-ready-for-lakers-season-not-worried-about-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-ready-for-lakers-season-not-worried-about-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James ready for Lakers\u2019 season: \u2018Not worried about contract\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1016\" data-end=\"1230\"><strong data-start=\"1016\" data-end=\"1032\">LeBron James<\/strong> opened the Lakers\u2019 media day saying he is \u201csuper excited\u201d for the season despite entering his 23rd year with an expiring contract. The 40-year-old will be the first NBA player to play 23 seasons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1440\">\u201cI\u2019m not worried about contracts,\u201d James said after picking up his $52.6M option. \u201cThe goal is to play championship basketball every single day,\u201d he added, praising the revamped roster with <strong data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1437\">Luka Doncic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1442\" data-end=\"1646\">Recovering from a knee injury, LeBron focuses on conditioning. \u201cThe challenge is getting close to 100%,\u201d he noted. On retirement, he stressed: \u201cI\u2019m not waiting on Bryce. My career has its own timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James opened the Lakers\u2019 media day saying he is \u201csuper excited\u201d for the season despite entering his 23rd year with an expiring contract<\/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":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-462167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/462167","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=462167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462167\/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=462167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462167"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=462167"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=462167"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=462167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}