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NBC Sports
27-07-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Speculation that this could be LeBron James' last season as Laker
Predicting what 41-year-old LeBron James will want to do a year from now is a fool's errand. Even one of basketball insider Marc Stein's sources tried to convey the same sentiment in kinder words when discussing LeBron's future: 'It all really depends on how this coming season goes.' LeBron's future was the hot topic at the NBA Summer League, however, the conversations ultimately went in circles because the only realistic option after he picked up his $52.6 million player option was for him to spend the next season in Los Angeles. There isn't a trade to a team he wants to be on that's available, and a buyout is highly unlikely. But what about the season after that, a 24th LeBon season where he turns 42? Stein speculated about that in his Saturday Substack missive. I believe that, by saying what I just said in the previous paragraph, it means that I expect him to retire in a uniform that isn't purple and gold. It's pretty clear at this juncture that the Lakers have launched the Luka Dončić Era. It certainly appears as though they are approaching the 2025-26 season as LeBron's last in Tinseltown. If James doesn't want retirement forced upon him, as one suspects, that almost certainly means he would have to find a new team next summer... I believe that the Warriors, who have shown an interest in acquiring James dating to the February 2024 trade deadline some 18 months ago, will remain in the mix if James ever does reach the point that he's looking for a last hurrah elsewhere. Then there are the Dallas rumors, about LeBron wanting to team up again with two people he won a title with in Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving. The Mavericks might be interested, but not in a trade that guts the roster, Stein said. While there is a fascination with where LeBron might play next, this comment sums up the vibe NBC Sports has gotten when discussing this around the league: LeBron is a fun parlor game, but Giannis Antetokounmpo is the player teams are really watching closely. I believe that Giannis Antetokounmpo's future in Milwaukee... still holds far greater behind-closed-doors interest among rival teams than the ongoing chatter about how much longer James is A) likely to play and/or B) be a Laker.
Sky News AU
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Protests against US strikes in Iran support a brutal regime, not the people says attorney Elica Le Bon
Protesters waving the Islamic Republic of Iran flag in protest against US strikes are actually supporting a brutal Iranian regime and not the country's people, attorney and activist Elica Le Bon has claimed. The US became directly involved in the Middle East crisis on Sunday when B2 Bombers targeted Iran's critical nuclear targets sites in a desperate bid to prevent the regime from obtaining nuclear weapons. However, protests against the US strikes have sprouted across the West, including in Sydney where crowds gathered and waved flags used by the Iranian regime's leadership. Pointing to similar rallies, Le Bon said Iranians themselves were not represented, as the vast majority of Iranian people are against the country's regime and want it dismantled. 'Not a single person in that crowd, not one of them is Iranian,' Le Bon told Sky News host Chris Kenny on Tuesday. 'If you want to know where all the Iranians are that are absent in the 'hands off the Islamic Republic protests', they're all at the 'free Iran from the Islamic Republic' protests.' The attorney labelled it 'bizarre' that people who claimed to support human rights are supporting the brutal Iranian regime in the face of strikes. 'Not a single human rights activist, not a single humanitarian, not a single social justice warrior, is at the protest where we're saying 'hands off the Iranian people',' Le Bon said. 'They're all at the protests that says 'hands off the Islamic Republic'. What is happening?'
Sky News AU
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Bizarre': Human rights activists' hypocrisy in attending pro-Islamic Republic protests
Attorney and Speaker Elica Le Bon highlights the hypocrisy of activists amid the Israel-Iran war, claiming their views are not consistent with the Iranian diaspora. 'The same survey shows that 99 per cent of Iranians in the diaspora are opposed to the Islamic Republic,' Ms Le Bon told Sky News host Chris Kenny. 'If you look at these protests that are in New York, that are in Germany, where they are holding up this bloody flag of the Islamic Republic and wearing their keffiyehs, not a single person in that crowd … is Iranian. 'It's so, so bizarre that not a single human rights activist … is at the protest where we're saying hands off the Iranian people, they're all at the protest that says hands off the Islamic Republic.'
Sky News AU
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Antisemitism in disguise': Activists who praise Iran's attacks shamed for being ‘inauthentic'
Attorney Elica Le Bon claims the activists who praise the attacks on Israel by Iran are showing 'antisemitism in disguise'. An Iranian missile has hit an Israeli hospital in the country's south, as well as more rockets continue to hit residential areas. 'There was no outrage … the world's reaction was 'they deserve it',' Ms Le Bon told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus. 'No matter what you feel about Israel's government … there is no excuse for dehumanising an entire nation of people. 'All of their activism is not real, it's not authentic. 'If it really was authentic … then they would've been just as upset to see Israeli civilians being killed. 'This passion for antisemitism is bringing us to another world war.
Sky News AU
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Like a dystopian episode of Black mirror': New Yorkers slammed for war crimes protest
Attorney Elica Le Bon slams the hundreds of people who protested in Times Square in New York, calling for an end to US war crimes in Gaza and Iran, with some reportedly waving the Iranian regime flag. 'We don't even call them the Iranian regime, they are the Islamic regime … it is not the name we gave them; it's the name that they gave themselves,' Ms Le Bon told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus. 'That flag is a flag that symbolises oppression for tens of millions of Iranians. 'It's both upsetting and incredibly ironic that we're seeing these so-called human rights protestors go pouring out into the streets for the first time to say hands off the regime in Iran. 'Where were they when it was time to say hands off the Iranian people for 46 years that this regime was oppressing and harming Iranian people? 'It's literally like living in a dystopian episode of Black Mirror.'
