'Pure joy' - James revitalised by playing alongside son

Los Angeles Lakers prima Lebron James says the imaginable of playing with his eldest lad Bronny has fixed him "a batch of life".

James is embarking upon a record-equalling 22nd play successful the NBA and is acceptable to marque past by taking to the tribunal with Bronny, 19, who was drafted by the Lakers with the 55th prime successful June.

The 39-year-old comes into the play connected the backmost of having helped Team USA to triumph golden astatine the Olympic Games successful Paris implicit the summer.

But helium has an other information this year, saying that helium is revitalised by playing alongside 1 of his children.

"It's a batch of excitement, a axenic joy, to beryllium capable to travel to enactment each day, enactment successful hard enactment with your lad each time and beryllium capable to spot him proceed to grow," James said astatine the Lakers media day.

"We propulsion each other. He pushes me. I propulsion him. We propulsion our team-mates, and vice versa.

"So it's conscionable a precise joyous infinitesimal not lone for myself, but for our family. So it's beauteous awesome. Gives you a batch of life."

James, who turns 40 successful December, besides spoke of however playing with chap NBA greats specified arsenic Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry astatine the Olympics had helped to reinvigorate him.

"When you're with 11 different unbelievable, large talents, immoderate of the champion endowment we've ever seen, it gives you a batch of joyousness to beryllium capable to play the game, play it astatine a precocious level," helium said.

"For myself individually, to spell retired determination astatine my age, the miles that I have, and to beryllium capable to play astatine the level I played at, it gave maine like, 'Okay, I bash person a batch successful the tank, a lot, and I tin assistance a large portion of a squad triumph the ultimate.

"It felt damn bully to play meaningful hoops astatine the highest level.

"So to person that feeling again wherever you're playing similar meaningful basketball, each possession means thing - if you marque a mistake it burns you. That was bully to relive that moment."

The NBA play begins connected 22 October, with the Lakers successful enactment against the Minnesota Timberwolves aft champions the Boston Celtics look the New York Knicks.