{"id":239123,"date":"2026-04-18T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/adam-silver-may-have-revealed-lebron-james-plans-for-next-season\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:46:29","slug":"adam-silver-may-have-revealed-lebron-james-plans-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/adam-silver-may-have-revealed-lebron-james-plans-for-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver may have revealed LeBron James&#8217; plans for next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LeBron James will close his 23rd NBA season with an opportunity to keep stacking the bricks of an almost flawless r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><span>The 41-year-old has been given the gargantuan challenge of leading the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/los_angeles_lakers\/89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0past Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves by his side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>James will be a free agent at the end of the season, so this may not only be his final series dressed in Purple &amp; Gold; it might be his final series, period.<\/p>\n<p><span>However, in a sit-down with sports anchor Craig Carton, NBA commissioner Adam Silver dismissed the notion of retirement, stating that James plans to run it back for at least another season.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Adam Silver says LeBron James isn\u2019t retiring yet<\/h2>\n<p><span>\u201cYeah, but he \u2014 no, I haven\u2019t talked to him since the season ended. I mean, I have every indication that he plans to keep playing next season,\u201d Silver\u00a0<\/span><span>said<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/adam_silver_may_have_revealed_lebron_james_plans_for_next_season\/s1_13132_43743238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will close his 23rd NBA season with an opportunity to keep stacking the bricks of an almost flawless r\u00e9sum\u00e9. The 41-year-old has been given the gargantuan challenge of leading the\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0past Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves by his side. James will be a free agent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}