LeBron James Ponders Quitting After Lakers’ Playoff Loss

LeBron James, the NBA leg­end and star for­ward, is report­ed­ly pon­der­ing quit­ting after the Los Ange­les Lak­ers’ 4–0 defeat to the Den­ver Nuggets in the West­ern Con­fer­ence Finals. Accord­ing to Bleach­er Report’s Chris Haynes, James is unsure about play­ing on with the Lak­ers, with whom he still has two years and $97 mil­lion remain­ing on his deal.

James, who has played 20 sea­sons in the NBA and won four cham­pi­onships, hint­ed at quit­ting after the Lak­ers’ play­off loss, say­ing, “I got a lot to think about. Just per­son­al­ly, with me mov­ing for­ward with the game of bas­ket­ball, I got a lot to think about.” If he does quit, he would leave the court with the all-time scor­ing record and the lead for play­off scor­ing records.

How­ev­er, quit­ting at the age of 38 would be sur­pris­ing for James, giv­en his goal to play with his eldest son, who is soon to join the league. James has pre­vi­ous­ly stat­ed that he wants to play with his son, but he recent­ly said that he would sup­port his son’s choice even if it meant not play­ing togeth­er in the NBA.

James’ future with the Lak­ers and pos­si­ble 21st NBA sea­son are now uncer­tain, with the super­star con­sid­er­ing his options dur­ing the off-sea­son. Despite the dif­fi­cul­ties of the past sea­son, James remains one of the most pow­er­ful play­ers in the league and will undoubt­ed­ly con­tin­ue to be a threat if he decides to play on.