{"id":483741,"date":"2026-02-14T19:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=483741"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:21:42","slug":"lebron-to-skip-all-star-media-day-will-speak-sunday-in-separate-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-to-skip-all-star-media-day-will-speak-sunday-in-separate-presser\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron to skip All-Star Media Day: will speak Sunday in separate presser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1464\">LeBron James will not be at today\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1343\">NBA All-Star Media Day<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1367\">NBA Communications<\/strong> announced he will instead be available <strong data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1434\">Sunday at 11:30 a.m. PT<\/strong> in the press conference room.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1753\">This approach isn\u2019t new for the <strong data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1520\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> star, who has handled All-Star media obligations in a separate pregame setting in recent years. Marc Stein also confirmed the league\u2019s plan: LeBron will hold his own press conference Sunday before participating in the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1892\">Social chatter has sparked speculation about a possible announcement, but the NBA\u2019s statement only details the schedule and availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA confirms James won\u2019t attend today\u2019s Media Day and will be available before tip-off Sunday, as in recent years<\/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-483741","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\/483741","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=483741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483741\/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=483741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483741"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=483741"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=483741"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=483741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}