LeBron James refused NBA proposal for playing games without fans in the stands amid coronavirus concerns: 'That's who I play for'
Lebron James pushed back against the National Basketball Association's newest proposal that could bar fans from attending games in an effort to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.
The organization released a memo on Friday to all of its 30 teams that they were weighing the possibility of playing games in empty arenas, which James flatly rejected when speaking to reporters Friday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. "We play games without the fans?" James asked a reporter who described the memo. "That's impossible. I ain't playing if I ain't got the fans in the crowd. That's who I play for."
James added: "If I show up to an arena and there ain't no fans in there, I ain't playing. They can do what they want to do."
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