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If the National Basketball Association (NBA) will be able to organize its logistics so that next season starts as early as December this year, the Los Angeles superstar and the world basketball icon Lebron James could skip the start of the season.
Underneath such an idea are not the statements of the Lakers or James himself, but mathematics and logic. James, along with the Los Angeles team, triumphed in the race on October 12, but the NBA is now in talks with the players’ union to start the season on December 22.
This means that the 35-year-old, who will be very important to the Lakers next season, would only have a break of less than three months in such a scenario.
A short break and a hasty start to the next season can result in load management, or that players who have had less rest will have to forcibly skip games so as not to overload themselves and get injured.
As you know, James is a player who has been constantly leading his teams to the finals since the beginning of the last decade and has played at least 100 matches every season. Nor is it any news that Lebron invests unimaginably large sums of money in his body to be considered the best basketball player on the planet, even at the age of 35.
“Many basketball players are putting pressure on the league for the first match of the tournament to take place on January 18, while the free agent market could start on December 1,” journalist Chris Heinss said earlier.
However, if the next NBA tournament starts on December 22, James may not have enough time to fully recover and prepare for what could force him to skip the start of the season. How much of it? Maybe a month or a half, but it’s just speculation. For example, teams that did not go to the “bubble” have been resting since March and thus benefit from the start of the season in December. Nine months without basketball is very much.
NBA expert Shannon Sharpe spoke more about the situation. “The start of the season on December 22 would be too hurried, especially for those basketball players who played until October. It doesn’t make sense – other teams have had three four-month breaks, and the other nine! That would be a great disadvantage for the Lakers and Lebron James. I understand Adam Silver because he has a lot of factors to consider, but I think January would be a more realistic time to start the season. If Lebron now had to go on the field after only a two-month break and ask for the best performance – I don’t think we want that, and then he would definitely miss the start. “
.@ShannonSharpe believes LeBron James will sit out the start of the NBA season if it begins on December 22nd: pic.twitter.com/Ar5j6fputc
– FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 29, 2020
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