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Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss knows LeBron James isn't ready to retire yet, but she's already decided that the team will retire his jersey in the future.
In a recent interview with Sportskeeda, Buss said that James' status as an all-time great makes his jersey retirement a foregone conclusion — though it will have to happen after he's inducted into the Hall of Fame.
"The standard for having your jersey retired as a Laker is when a player is inducted into the Hall of Fame," Buss told Sportskeeda. "I have absolutely no doubt that LeBron will make it into the Basketball Hall of Fame. When he does so, then we will retire his jersey. Knowing that he will make it into the Basketball Hall of Fame, he will have his Lakers jersey retired. No doubt about it."
Buss wants James to retire with the Lakers, but even if he chooses to leave after the 2023-24 season (he has a $50 million player option for 2024-25), that won't change anything. James, who led the Lakers to an NBA title during the bubble season in 2020, will still have his jersey retired.
"It would mean a lot," Buss said. "But it won’t change his contributions to Lakers history. It’s great if he retires as a Laker. That’s the ultimate thing because a player like Shaquille O’Neal has meant so much to Lakers history, but he wasn’t a Laker when he retired from the NBA. But that didn’t change what his part of Lakers history was. When he retired from the NBA, we retired his Lakers jersey."
James is changing his jersey number from No. 6 to No. 23 this season in recognition of Bill Russell, whose jersey and No. 6 were retired league-wide following his death in July 2022. Buss said the conversation about which of James' jerseys will be retired is "for another time."
Buss was asked to comment about James' family and his son, Bronny, who went into cardiac arrest on Monday and was rushed to the hospital. She declined, stating that she would "defer to the request the James family made and am giving them their time to be together as a family."
Bronny has been discharged from Cedars-Sinai and is home recuperating with his family. On X, James expressed his gratitude to all those who kept his son in their prayers.
I want to thank the countless people sending my family love and prayers. We feel you and I’m so grateful. Everyone doing great. We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love. Will have more to say when we’re ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your…
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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