Fan sues LeBron James for deception after

A fan who spent lots of of {dollars} for tickets to what he thought can be one of LeBron James’ remaining NBA video games is wanting to recoup the money in small claims court after it turned out “The Second Deicision” teased by the Lakers famous person had nothing to do with his retirement.

Norwalk resident Andrew Garcia filed a declare Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court that states that James owes him $865.66 because of “fraud, deception, misrepresentation, and any and all basis of legal recovery.”

Garcia told The Times that he spent that quantity for two tickets to the Lakers’ recreation against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 31, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena , considering it might be the 40-year-old NBA icon’s remaining recreation against the crew that drafted him in 2003.

He and other basketball followers had been under that impression after James posted Monday on X that he can be saying “the decision of all decisions” the next day. The post included a video clip teasing “The Second Decision,” a clear reference to 2010’s “The Decision,” in which James famously announced he was going to “take my talents to South Beach” to play for the Miami Heat.

Garcia said he bought the tickets within 10 minutes of James’ social media post.

“I was like, ‘Holy s—, LeBron is going to retire! We’ve got to get tickets now,’” the 29-year-old Garcia said. “Like, literally, because if he formally makes this announcement, you know, there’s gonna be some significant price changes, right?”

Garcia is a enormous fan of the Lakers and James, as properly as an avid basketball fan in normal, so he thought it might be cool to see the NBA’s all-time main scorer play for the last time against the crew with which he began his profession and introduced its first title in 2016 after his return from Miami.

“Moments like that, I understand the value,” Garcia said. “There still may be some moderate value [to the tickets], however it’s not the same without him retiring. I remember Kobe’s last year, it was kind of what this would have been, per se, where every ticket was worth a lot. Every game had value. …

“I missed out on that. I was a little bit younger at the time. I obviously wasn’t in a position to where I could just buy tickets unfortunately at that age. I believe I was like 18 or 19 at the time. And that’s one of my biggest regrets as a sports fan. I really wish I could have gotten the Kobe’s last year. So I see this as a potential to kind of make up for what I lost with Kobe.”

But “The Second Decision” ended up having nothing to do with retirement. It was merely a Hennessy advert.

So now Garcia needs his money back.

“There is no circumstance absent him saying he’s gonna retire that I would have bought tickets that far in advance,” Garcia said. “I mean, I buy tickets, but I don’t buy tickets five months’ advance. I’m the kind of person that buys tickets five hours in advance. It was solely, solely, solely based on that. So that’s why I was really thinking, ‘You know what, this might be grounds for a case.’ ”

The Times reached out to an attorney said to be working with James associated to the declare but didn’t obtain an rapid response.

In mild of the whole lot that has occurred this week, though, Garcia said he’d still be prepared to pay the same quantity of money to see James play during his eventual retirement tour.

“Of course,” Garcia said. “I would probably spend more, because life is all about memories and experiences.”