Another offseason, another year of speculation on whether or not LeBron James will announce his retirement. Amidst all that, an NBA insider has revealed some important details about an whenever-announced LeBron retirement.

According to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, LeBron James will not choose the Tim Duncan way of retiring by simply announcing to the world he is hanging up the sneakers after the season has concluded. Instead, James will be taking the Kobe Bryant route.

The Kobe route means having a farewell tour for an entire NBA season known before that upcoming season.

“And I think when it’s the final march of LeBron, perhaps final March rather than Last Dance, we’re all going to know. We’re all going to know and it’s going to be must see TV. It’s going to be the LeBron tour coming to town throughout the 28 NBA cities culminating in a spectacular farewell.”

McMenamin continues by saying that LeBron isn’t going to announce it, and that’s it; it will be a whole show.

“This isn’t going to be one of those things where after the season he says, ‘By the way, that was the last [season].’ He is going to want to dance or march his way out of the NBA.”

While no one knows when the 39-year-old will retire, fans do know that it will be planned out and that he will be celebrated for an entire season.

According to the Los Angeles Lakers, Christian Wood has undergone surgery on his left knee and will be re-evaluated in eight weeks.

The arthroscopic operation, which took place on Monday, was a success. This is Wood’s second surgery on his left knee, as he missed the last two months of the regular season due to surgery.

Wood picked up his $3 million player option to remain with Los Angeles; he will be a free agent next offseason.

According to Marc Stein, the Golden State Warriors tried trading for LeBron James. This was very public and very real. However, LeBron James’ agent, Rich Paul, didn’t want it to happen due to the public criticism.

Despite team owners talking and negotiations ramping up rather quickly, the only way the Lakers would move LeBron was by him outright saying it. It’s unknown if James wanted to go to Golden State, but Paul feared the public would clown him for jumping to his fourth team.

So, with all that being said, the highly successful agent asked both teams not to consider any deal. It appears an image investment was made.

LeBron is under contract until 2026-27 unless he declines his option in 2025-26.