A back-breaking loss to their hallway rivals, the L.A. Clippers, has left the Los Angeles Lakers with a minuscule margin of error for the rest of the season. It won't be long before the front office realizes it might be time to throw in the towel and asks LeBron James to sit out and rest for the remainder of the 2018-19 campaign, something he has no plans to do.

“That would take a lot of convincing from Luke [Walton] on up,” James told ESPN's Dave McMenamin, referring to the Lakers coach as well as, most likely, everyone from general manager Rob Pelinka, to president Magic Johnson, to governor Jeanie Buss. “Unless I'm hurt, I'm not sitting games.”

The Lakers have now lost three games in a row and set themselves a whopping 5.5 games back from the San Antonio Spurs, who are fighting to cling onto the eighth and last spot in the West. Los Angeles has now less than a one-percent chance to take control of that last spot after losing to the now seventh-placed Clippers.

James expects the talk to come very soon, nonetheless.

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“That conversation hasn't occurred, but I'm sure it can happen soon,” James said.

The King already missed 17 games with a groin injury, one that hasn't looked completely healed since returning to play those Clippers in late January.

This circumstance comes only less than a year after James played all 82 games and another 22 in the postseason, playing all 104 possible games for the Cleveland Cavaliers in their last hurrah.

Needless to say, words will be had if the front office decides to tell James to sit out the rest of the season.