{"id":470418,"date":"2025-11-19T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=470418"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:05:31","slug":"lebron-james-rules-out-2028-olympics-stephen-curry-highly-doubts-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-rules-out-2028-olympics-stephen-curry-highly-doubts-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James rules out 2028 Olympics; Stephen Curry \u201chighly doubts\u201d participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1313\" data-end=\"1565\">In the latest episode of <em data-start=\"1338\" data-end=\"1353\">Mind the Game<\/em>, <strong data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1371\">LeBron James<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1376\" data-end=\"1393\">Stephen Curry<\/strong> both indicated they <strong data-start=\"1414\" data-end=\"1464\">won\u2019t compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics<\/strong>. \u201c<strong data-start=\"1467\" data-end=\"1516\">You already know my answer \u2014 I\u2019ll be watching<\/strong>,\u201d said James, who will be 43 during the Games.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1871\">Curry, who will be 40 by then, added: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1710\">God willing, I\u2019ll still have the choice and ability to play, but I highly doubt it. Highly doubt it.<\/strong>\u201d James has four Olympic appearances with three golds (2008, 2012, 2024), while Curry made his Olympic debut in Paris, leading the U.S. to victory over France.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1873\" data-end=\"2039\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1908\">We can\u2019t top what we just did,<\/strong>\u201d James concluded, hinting that the 2024 triumph might have been the perfect farewell to international basketball for both stars.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2041\" data-end=\"2132\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA icons suggest their Team USA chapter ended with Paris 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":398988,"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-470418","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\/07\/LeBron-James-photo-FIBA.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470418","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=470418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470418"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=470418"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=470418"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=470418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}