Lebon James eyes olympics:

LOS ANGELES. — Four-time Most Valuable NBA Player LeBron James is a“possibility” for the defending champion basketball US team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, but says he will skip this year’s World Cup in China.

The 34-year-old forward for the Los Angeles Lakers told The Athletic website in a story posted on Monday that he will begin production on the movie “Space Jam 2” during this off-season and how he feels after next season will determine his chances of playing for gold in Japan next year. “That’s a possibility,” James said. “It depends on how I feel. I love the Olympics.”

James spent most of the 2004 Athens Olympics on the bench as a team of US

stars settled for bronze, then served NBA as the backbone of a revamped program that won Olympic gold in 2008 at Beijing and 2012 in London.

He did not play for the American squad that captured a third consecutive title in 2016 at Rio. James is entering the earliest

off-season he has known, the Lakers NBA having benched him for the finish of the campaign due to a left groin injury that has nagged him since late December. This season snaps an eight-year run of

Finals appearances for James, who NBA captured two titles with the Miami Heat and another with the Cleveland Cavaliers, whom he left as a free agent to join the Lakers last July.

James will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2005 and plans for extra training time during his long summer break as well as his movie work on a set that will include a basketball court so he can get in some workouts while making the movie.

“I’ve had basically the same off-season training regimen the last eight years,” James told the website. —