LeBron James is done with Olympic basketball.
Or he isn't. We won't know until 2016. But if the defending NBA Finals and regular-season MVP had to make his decision right now, his international playing career will have concluded with the 2012 gold-medal game in London.
At least that's what a source close to the Miami Heat forward told Yahoo! Sports' Marc J. Spears, as the United States was holding tryouts this week in preparation for the 2014 World Championships. It's already been confirmed that James won't participate in that event, which will be held in Spain next August and September.
The will-he-or-won't-he question comes about two years later, when Team USA will look for a third straight gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro games. While leaving the possibility open that James could change his mind—his decision-making was categorized as how he feels "at that moment"—a source close to the situation told Spears it would take a lot for him to play.
"The only way I could see him playing in the Olympics is if his country really, really needed him to play," ...
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