LA Lakers News: LeBron James Reveals Rest To Be Detrimental As He Gets Older

The NBA’s season remains suspended and is headed to a long hiatus. It will be months before the games start running back as the expected return is slated to be mid-to-late June. The threat of the coronavirus continues as the disease infects thousands of lives. It is of main priority that everyone must comply with the necessary precautionary measures to slow down the spread of COVID-19.

As the world plays it safe, this means that players will have additional rest to once the league gets back rolling. However, this proves to be detrimental to most NBA players, as the extended stagnant play will greatly affect their play.

LA Lakers LeBron James is one of these athletes as he recognizes the importance of consistently playing within the right schedule. In a web show he had with Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye and Allie Clifton, he shared the importance of preparing the body before jumping back in.

He emphasized that greater care is required if the league decides to head straight to the playoffs. Teams should be able to put the players in the proper groove before they resume everything at full blast. “I think maybe one and a half or two weeks of mini training camp,” he said was necessary to get everyone’s momentum back.

“The narrative that I don’t like is, ‘now guys get so much rest’ or like ‘LeBron is 35 he’s got so much minutes on his body now he gets so much rest’,” he added.

He stressed the point that he needs to be consistently playing in order to continue playing at a high level. “It’s actually the opposite for me because my body, [when] we stop playing, it’s asking for it,” he added.

Jefferson chipped into the conversation and said that it’s normal for players his age to go through that process. “When you’re older you decondition a lot faster,” the former NBA champion said.

LeBron is in his 17th year in the league and is still considered one of the top players in the league. He’s currently in the MVP race and doesn’t appear to slow down anytime soon – a possible effect of him staying more conditioned despite getting older.