DENVER —
LeBron James raised the microphone to his face.
“Ummm,” he started.
James smiled and looked at me.
“I’m not going to answer that,” he said.
April 29, 2024
James nodded.
“Appreciate it,” he said, still smiling.
With that, he walked off the dais.
The question I asked that James declined to answer: Did he have any thoughts on Monday night that he might have played his last game for the Lakers?
The Lakers were eliminated from the playoffs, a 108-106 loss to the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena in Game 5 of their first-round series sending them into an offseason of uncertainty.