Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to LeBron James’s comments following the Los Angeles lakers’ Game 4 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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Video Transcript
Is this how LeBron’s career comes to an end?
No.
No, LeBron’s career is not coming to an end.
We know LeBron pretty well, right?
We know that LeBron maybe has, an appreciation for the theatric and the dramatic.
We know, you know, LeBron wants to take every opportunity that he can, both for himself to kind of live in the moment, and to allow fans to, you know, enjoy the LeBron moment.
I can’t imagine that LeBron wouldn’t allow the opportunity for himself, and for the basketball world, to truly soak in the last of LeBron.
The last trip for LeBron to Cleveland.
LeBron’s last trip to Miami.
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I also don’t think LeBron is going to allow himself, his illustrious career, one of the most decorated in the history of the game of basketball, to end on a sweep.
After the game he said, “I don’t know what the future holds for me.
I’ve done it all.
I’ve seen it all.”
And to me, that’s the perfect response.
And I know sometimes we talk about, you know, coach speak or athlete speak, not saying anything.
I think that this is the honest, expected res- result from somebody that is not going to let emotion make one of the most important decisions.
LeBron shouldn’t let the emotion of getting his butt whooped by OKC influence that decision.
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The only real way to do this, in my mind, is to take time.
And maybe it’s because as I get older I realize that that’s the way life works.
As you get older, you, you do start to understand, okay, if I don’t have anything to prove to anybody, and I don’t care anymore about the legacy conversations, which LeBron has made clear he doesn’t.
If I’m just sitting around saying, “What do I wanna do?”
What I don’t wanna do is make that decision right after a loss.
What I don’t wanna do is make that decision right after a win.
I wanna let all of the raw emotions of the moment die away, and once those have died, then I can turn around and say, “Okay, what’s right for me?
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What’s right for my family?
What’s right for my body?”
When we hear him say, “I’ve done it all, I’ve seen it all,” there’s no lie, Caroline.
I, I, I don’t know what other answer we expected from LeBron.
I won’t question what I think was a fair and reasonable response of, “I don’t know what the future holds.”
Because right now, today, his only focus has been trying to win.
He shouldn’t know what the future holds, as we said.
