{"id":3847,"date":"2025-10-09T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/lebron-james-reveals-answer-to-the-second-decision-and-its-not-retirement\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:15:43","slug":"lebron-james-reveals-answer-to-the-second-decision-and-its-not-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/lebron-james-reveals-answer-to-the-second-decision-and-its-not-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James reveals answer to \u2018The Second Decision\u2019 \u2014 and it\u2019s not retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James whipped social media into a mild frenzy Monday when he teased an announcement<\/a> on Tuesday with the caption \u201cThe decision of all decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid speculation that James could be announcing his retirement or revealing his plans for his future in basketball, the decision was unveiled Tuesday morning \u2014 and it is that James will be selling a \u201climited edition\u201d collaboration with Hennessy beginning in October. <\/p>\n

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The announcement was made essentially as a parody of \u201cThe Decision,\u201d a widely criticized television event James and his team produced in 2010 during which he announced he would sign with the Miami Heat after having spent the first seven years of his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers. (James\u2019 subsequent two free agent decisions came via a letter in Sports Illustrated and a news release by his agency, making many dubious that he would announce his retirement in the same manner as 2010.)<\/p>\n

Those who did believe James could be retiring after this season paid the price \u2014 literally. Ticket prices for the Lakers\u2019 last game of the season spiked after his initial post teasing the announcement. <\/p>\n

The average price of tickets for Lakers games increased from $250 to $500 in the hour following James\u2019 post, according to the ticket reseller StubHub. <\/p>\n

James, who will turn 41 in December, is the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer. He is in the final year of his contract with the Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James whipped social media into a mild frenzy Monday when he teased an announcement on Tuesday with the caption \u201cThe decision of all decisions.\u201d Amid speculation that James could be announcing his retirement or revealing his plans for his future in basketball, the decision was unveiled Tuesday morning \u2014 and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}