Andrew Bogut hopes to make a call on his playing future in the next month as the 35-year-old balances an ageing body with the prospect of an elusive Olympic basketball medal.
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The former NBA championship winner and No.1 draft pick, who has played the past two seasons in the NBL for Sydney, had planned to call time on his career after this year's Tokyo Games.
But with the Olympics postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus, it means he'll need to play another season to make it, and isn't sure whether he can manage.
"I'm not doing much - I can tell you that," he told ABC's Offsiders of his current fitness routine.
"To be able to kiss your kids goodnight and put them down every night ... I've appreciated doing that.
"I haven't done any basketball since the season ended and it feels good waking up, getting out of bed and not feeling like I'm walking on glass.
"It's (my career) all been thrown into a washing machine essentially ... but there's a decision to be made probably by mid May."
Bogut played a key role in the Boomers' gut-wrenching fourth-placed finish at last year's World Cup as Australia's side's long wait for an international medal continued.
It is hoped NBA All-Star Ben Simmons will be a new addition to the side in Tokyo, with Bogut one of the Boomers' long-time core players itching to achieve the goal.
"We've been tantalisingly close and the squad we're going to have is arguably going to be the best squad in the history of the Boomers, on paper at least," he said.
"To be part of that, selfishly, is something I really want to do, but the body is what it comes down to.
"I can get up for a basketball game any day of the week, but it's hard to get up for five, six days of training a week and lifting weights."
Australian Associated Press
