‘Basketball is hard work!’ - LeBron discusses retirement - video Dailymotion

39-year-old LeBron James discusses his future in the NBA, and whether he will play with his son Bronny

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00:00Have you given any initial thoughts of what comes next this summer for next season?

00:04No, I just want to get home to the family, honestly.

00:07I started looking at the schedule, obviously.

00:10I got my son, one of my boys is just trying to decide if he's going to enter the draft or go back to school.

00:17I got another kid that's playing AU ball right now.

00:19My daughter's playing volleyball, and my wife is doing so many great things.

00:24So it's about family right now.

00:25And then in a couple months, I got to go to Vegas for training camp.

00:28So I got to rest my body for USAB, but that's kind of the initial thoughts.

00:34It's very taxing, mentally, physically, spiritually, everything.

00:37To be able to just play this game alone, and then to try to play at a higher level is very taxing.

00:45It's a lot of dedication, a lot of hard work, and a lot of long hours.

00:47So it's very taxing, but it's rewarding.

00:51Because if you love the game, and you love the process, and you love being great,

00:56then you don't mind taking the tax on your body, and your mental, and your psyche,

01:02and things of that nature that comes with it.

01:04So it's okay.

01:05I haven't given much thought lately.

01:07Obviously, I've thought about it in the past.

01:09But at the end of the day, the kid has to do what he wants to do.

01:12And I don't even want to say kid no more.

01:14The young man will decide what he wants to do, and how he wants his career to go.

01:18So I just think the fact that we're even having a conversation is pretty cool,

01:23in a sense of that.

01:25But we'll see what happens.