{"id":463836,"date":"2025-10-10T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=463836"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:51:10","slug":"lakers-doncic-reaves-havent-asked-lebron-about-retirement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-doncic-reaves-havent-asked-lebron-about-retirement-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Doncic, Reaves haven\u2019t asked LeBron about retirement plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"866\" data-end=\"1115\">As <strong data-start=\"934\" data-end=\"950\">LeBron James<\/strong> sits out with <strong data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"977\">sciatica<\/strong>, speculation grows about his future, but <strong data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1034\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1039\" data-end=\"1056\">Austin Reaves<\/strong> have chosen not to ask the Lakers star about retirement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1311\">Both teammates prefer to respect James\u2019 process as he works toward returning. Doncic, who once witnessed <strong data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1241\">Dirk Nowitzki\u2019s<\/strong> farewell in Dallas, understands how personal such decisions can be.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1313\" data-end=\"1579\">Now in his <strong data-start=\"1324\" data-end=\"1343\">23rd NBA season<\/strong>, James is playing on an <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1403\">expiring $52.6 million contract<\/strong> for the first time. With agent <strong data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1448\">Rich Paul<\/strong> suggesting LeBron will do what\u2019s best for himself, rumors of a trade, buyout, or free agency move next summer continue to swirl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As LeBron James sits out with sciatica, speculation grows about his future, but Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves have chosen not to ask the Lakers star about retirement<\/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-463836","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\/463836","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=463836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463836\/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=463836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463836"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=463836"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=463836"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=463836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}