{"id":81157,"date":"2025-11-18T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lebron-and-curry-will-not-play-in-the-2028-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:43:06","slug":"lebron-and-curry-will-not-play-in-the-2028-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/lebron-and-curry-will-not-play-in-the-2028-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron and Curry will NOT play in the 2028 Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>LeBron James and Stephen Curry Rule Out Participation in the 2028 Olympics<\/h2>\n\nIn a recent conversation on the &#8220;Mind the Game&#8221; podcast, NBA superstars LeBron James and Stephen Curry revealed their plans for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.\n\nBoth players, considered future Hall of Famers, made it clear that they will not compete for the men&#8217;s national team in said event.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;You already know my answer,&#8221; said James.<\/p><cite>LeBron James<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nJames, who will be 43 years old during the 2028 Olympic Games, expressed his intention to enjoy the event as a spectator.\n\nCurry, for his part, who will turn 40 at that time, did not completely rule out the possibility, but considered it unlikely.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;God willing, I would still have the option and the physical ability to impact the team,&#8221; Curry commented.<\/p><cite>Stephen Curry<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCurry added that, although one should never say never, the probability of his participation is low.\n\nJames has participated in four Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in 2004 and three gold medals in 2008, 2012, and 2024.\n\nCurry made his Olympic debut in the 2024 games, offering an outstanding performance in the gold medal match.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t overcome what we just did,&#8221; James concluded.<\/p><cite>LeBron James<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James and Stephen Curry Rule Out Participation in the 2028 Olympics In a recent conversation on the &#8220;Mind the Game&#8221; podcast, NBA superstars LeBron James and Stephen Curry revealed their plans for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Both players, considered future Hall of Famers, made it clear that they will not compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[121,103,631,116],"class_list":{"0":"post-81157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-lebron-james","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-stephen-curry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}