{"id":190857,"date":"2025-10-05T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190857\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:25:07","slug":"nfl-star-watches-lebron-james-highlights-before-every-game-he-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190857\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Star Watches LeBron James’ Highlights Before Every Game He Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Rams star Puka Nacua is a well-known LeBron James<\/a> fan, but his fandom might go beyond what you might think. Nacua\u2019s teammates, Matthew Stafford and Davante Adams, revealed on the QB 1 on 1<\/a> show that he actually watches James\u2019 highlights before NFL games.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeBron James, Puka\u2019s boy, Puka\u2019s guy,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cLittle-known fact, Puka watches LeBron James highlights before NFL games. Not really sure how he correlates the two, but he loves LeBron and also thinks he could play in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams vouched for his quarterback and stated he was puzzled when he saw Nacua watching the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> superstar\u2019s highlights before their last game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will vouch and say that that\u2019s true because I just saw him before this last game sitting next to me watching it,\u201d Adams said. \u201cAnd I was confused. I\u2019m like, \u2018What?\u2019 It was LeBron James career highlights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nacua has recorded league-leading marks of 52 catches and 588 receiving yards in the 2025 NFL season, to go with two touchdowns. Watching those highlights certainly isn\u2019t hurting the 24-year-old on the field, and perhaps some other wide receivers could look into doing the same.<\/p>\n

While Nacua is shining on the football field, Stafford also revealed there that he thinks he could play in the NFL. The wideout spoke about retiring from the NFL at 30 and playing basketball overseas on the Games With Names<\/a> podcast, but that had seemed to be in jest.<\/p>\n

It turns out Nacua thinks he could play basketball at the highest level today. As great an athlete as he is, it\u2019s unlikely he or anyone else in the NFL would be able to make that transition. You wouldn\u2019t really back an NBA player to play in the NFL either.<\/p>\n

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Puka Nacua On Why LeBron James Is The GOAT<\/p>\n

As one would expect, a die-hard James fan like Nacua believes he is the GOAT. He and fellow NFL wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown once even debated on the subject on the St. Brown Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nacua started off by stating that James can play one through five, but St. Brown, who believes Michael Jordan<\/a> is the greatest, pointed out that he doesn\u2019t guard centers and told him to carry on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s gone to three different organizations and won,\u201d Nacua stated. \u201cEverywhere he goes, he\u2019s had a new coach that he\u2019s taken to the NBA Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown claimed coaching doesn\u2019t matter as much in basketball, and Nacua highlighted that Jordan won his six NBA titles with Phil Jackson<\/a> as his head coach. He had other coaches, too, but didn\u2019t win with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen [Jordan] was 21 and in college, LeBron was carrying his team to the NBA Finals already,\u201d Nacua added. \u201cLike year four, carrying [Zydrunas] Ilgauskas to the NBA Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n

James famously led the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> to the NBA Finals in 2007 in what was just his fourth season in the NBA. He lost to the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> back then but has since gone on to win four titles.<\/p>\n

To go with those titles, James has won four Finals MVPs, four MVPs, a scoring title, and an assists title. The 40-year-old is also the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer and has put together a compelling case to be regarded as the greatest ever.<\/p>\n

James isn\u2019t done just yet, either. He averaged 24.4 points, 7.8 rebounds, 8.2 assists, 1.0 steals, and 0.6 blocks per game for the Lakers in 2024-25, his 22nd season. James is set to become the first player to play a 23rd season in the NBA in 2025-26, and expect him to shine in his record-breaking campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Rams star Puka Nacua is a well-known LeBron James fan, but his fandom might go beyond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-190857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}