{"id":683092,"date":"2026-05-20T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:08:25","slug":"kendrick-perkins-hilariously-reacts-to-lebron-james-clippers-contract-odds-in-trending-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683092\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Perkins Hilariously Reacts to LeBron James&#8217; Clippers Contract Odds in Trending Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Los Angeles Clippers have become a popular potential landing spot for LeBron James in free agency, but Kendrick Perkins isn&#8217;t buying it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Perkins, who briefly played alongside James in Cleveland, said he has a &#8220;better chance of losing 100 pounds by this Friday&#8221; than the Clippers have to sign James this offseason. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While it&#8217;s still not confirmed whether James will play another season, all signs point to him suiting up in 2026-27. The team he&#8217;ll play for is the big question mark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">His current team, the Los Angeles Lakers, is still seemingly the favorite to land him, but <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/whats-next-for-lebron-james-4f7\">Marc Stein<\/a>\u00a0of The Stein Line noted that the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks and Clippers\u00a0are the teams to monitor if he decides to play for another team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Clippers have become a popular potential landing spot for LeBron James in free agency, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-683092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683092","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=683092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}