LeBron James is entering uncharted territory. At 40 years old, with four championships and nearly two decades of dominance behind him, the Los Angeles Lakers star is preparing for his 23rd NBA season—a feat no other player of his caliber has ever achieved. He remains not just a fixture, but a force: still putting up All-NBA numbers, still dictating games with his mind and body, and still anchoring the Lakers’ hopes in a league that continues to get younger around him.

Yet with that longevity comes an unavoidable question: how much longer can he keep this up? Retirement talk has followed LeBron for years, but the noise has grown louder as he balances the grind of an 82-game season with the pull of family milestones—most notably, playing alongside his son Bronny last season, which he called

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