LeBron James: NBA All Star captain questioned on playing time by one team-mate
LEBRON JAMES is once again captaining a team at an NBA All Star weekend.
The Los Angeles Lakers star has quite a team to pick from including good friend Dwyane Wade.
It will be the final time LeBron plays with Wade who will retire at the end of the 2018-19 NBA season.
And the Miami Heat star has admitted he will speak to LeBron about the amount of playing time he will get.
“I’ve got to talk to my captain about that,” he explained.
“I’ve got to talk to LeBron about that one. Not much, you know what I mean? I’m not here to do that.
“I’m just here to enjoy it. Whatever is called for me to do, I want to get out there and enjoy it.
“If it’s five minutes, cool. If it’s 20 minutes, cool. I just want to get out there and have a little fun.”
LeBron has also opened up on his special friendship with Wade ahead of the match against Team Giannis.
He said: “For me being a competitor, for me being his teammate to being a competitor again, for us sharing father advice to sharing marriage advice to sharing son advice, it’s really bigger than just basketball when it comes to me and D-Wade.
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“We can actually look at each other and know what each other’s thinking and knowing how each other feels at times in our lives.
“To be here, for me to be able to choose him to be part of Team LeBron, for him to be here this weekend, it’s a bittersweet moment, obviously.
“The bitter part of it, that this is his last weekend being in All-Star Weekend and knowing that his journey is coming to an end as far as a basketball player.
“But the sweet moment is that we’ve got so much more life to live together, and we will continue that.”
NBA All Star Game teams
TEAM GIANNIS
Starters: Joel Embiid, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Paul George, Stephen Curry, Kemba Walker
Reserves: Khris Middleton, Nikola Jokic, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, D'Angelo Russell, Nikola Vucevic, Kyle Lowry, Dirk Nowitzki
TEAM LEBRON
Starters: Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, Kyrie Irving
Reserves: Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, Damian Lillard, Ben Simmons, LaMarcus Aldridge, Karl-Anthony Towns, Bradley Beal, Dwayne Wade