Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome and Trevor Lane here for Lakers Nation.com.

You're home for everything. Lakers, the offseason.

Well, it's about an hour old at this point and things are already getting crazy.

I always trust the Lakers to bring the drama.

LeBron James considering retirement.

What does this mean for the Lakers for their future?

Is LeBron actually going to do it?

And is Coach Malone ever going to recover?

His team is going to the finals and no one is going to be talking about them.

Anytime soon, he was already having a fit about that he must be beside himself right now

joining me is ron gutterman from lakersnation dot com ron how are you doing and can you believe it

that this is already how we're starting off the lakers off season you know if it wasn't so

like it wasn't so obvious i'd be surprised but you know what's so on brand this is just so

par for the course with the lakers with lebron uh everything is fireworks everything is a big story

everything is drama this is just the laker way this is the lebron way and uh yeah you know what

at least we're starting it early let's get it out of the way as early as possible. Let's do it. All right. So here's what we know. According to Dave McMenomen, he had this exchange with LeBron asking because LeBron had said he has to think about stuff in terms of next season and everything. He said, when you say you have to think about stuff, what thread should we be pulling on with that? He said, if I want to continue to play. Dave asked him as in next year,

LeBron said, yeah. And Dave then clarified, you would walk away. And LeBron said, I've got to think about

it. So LeBron, considering not playing, Chris Haynes put out a report saying that LeBron isn't sure that he's going to be with the team to start next season.

As one can imagine, wild speculation has already begun about exactly what all of this means.

So what, first of all, do you think LeBron is actually going to retire?

Is that something that's going to happen here? He did play essentially the whole game,

all but four seconds in the Lakers final game four. What, do you think he actually goes out

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