The Los Angeles Lakers hope LeBron James will decide to continue his career after he recovers from the difficult end to their season.
The 38-year-old James has skipped his team's postseason media exit interviews before, but his decision Tuesday left Lakers fans hanging about his intentions with his enigmatic comments following a four-game sweep by the Denver Nuggets.
Despite James' 40-point performance, including a career playoff-best 31 points in the first half, the seventh-seeded Lakers were swept by the top-seeded Nuggets with a 113-111 defeat in Game 4 on Monday night, ending James' attempt to win his fifth career championship in his 20th NBA season. James had been largely healthy throughout his NBA career until he reached his mid-30s in Los Angeles, where he has missed significant chunks in four of his five seasons.
"I feel like that's human nature, to be his age and be playing at the level he's playing at," Troy Brown Jr. said. "Personally, I feel like because of his love of the game, he will continue to play. But I don't blame him at all." Los Angeles was one of the NBA's best teams after its moves at the trade deadline, going 18-8 to end the regular season even without James. The Lakers then made an impressive run to the conference finals, knocking off second-seeded Memphis and defending champion Golden State, but ran out of steam against the powerhouse Nuggets.
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