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The Los Angeles Lakers will talk to LeBron James in the coming days and hope he will continue with them despite saying he would consider retirement during the offseason following the team's playoff exit. 

James said after his team were eliminated by Denver from the Western Conference finals late on Monday in the minimum four games that he had a lot to think about regarding his basketball future. 

The 38-year-old has skipped his team's postseason media exit interviews before, but his decision to do so Tuesday left Lakers fans hanging about his intentions after the enigmatic postgame comments.

'LeBron has given as much to the game of basketball as anyone who's ever played. When you do that, you earn a right to decide whether you're going to give more,' said general manager Rob Pelinka.

'We'll be in contact with him, his team, and really providing nothing but support for him. Obviously, our hope would be that his career continues, but we want to give him the time to have that inflection point and support him along the way.'

Despite James' 40-point performance, including a career playoff-best 31 points in the first half, the seventh-seeded Lakers were swept by the

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