LeBron James revealed that he is "super excited" about the challenges that he and his Los Angeles Lakers team-mates will face in the upcoming NBA season.

This will be James' 23rd campaign in the league, surpassing Vince Carter's previous record of 22, while it will also be the first time in his eight years with the Lakers that the forward will enter a season on an expiring contract.

The 21-time All-Star averaged 24.4 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 8.2 assists on 51.3% field goal percentage in the 2024-25 regular season, before losing 4-1 in the first round of the playoffs to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

James insisted he is not worried about his contract situation, but is rather relishing the season ahead, along with a full campaign with Luka Doncic.

"I'm super excited about the challenges and the excitement of our team," James told ESPN.

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"We added some new guys. We got another year under our belt with our coaching staff from last year.

"Got a full year with Luka [Doncic] and another year with the guys that I've been with. So super excited about that.

"And I'm not worried about contracts at this point in my career. That doesn't bother me at all.

"Super humbled to even have it, have a contract still and be able to play the game that I love still at this part of my career and take full advantage of it."

James also suffered a grade two MCL sprain during their final game of the season against the Timberwolves, but is determined to be ready to play as much as possible in the 2025-26 campaign.

"That's always the challenge: How can I get my body close to 100%?" James added.

"Coming off the MCL sprain last year, obviously, the foot has kind of given me a little problem from time to time throughout the course of the last few seasons.

"So, that's always the challenge of seeing how I can get my body as close to 100% where I can go out and perform at a high level.

"So, I'm still ramping things back up. I'm not where I want to be. But I mean, I don't want to be where I want to be right now in September. So, I got some time, and I'm looking forward to the process of getting there."