{"id":748906,"date":"2026-06-20T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748906\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:32:21","slug":"richard-jefferson-jokes-about-lebron-james-influence-on-cavs-exit-for-dwyane-wade-in-funny-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748906\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Jefferson Jokes About LeBron James&#8217; Influence on Cavs Exit for Dwyane Wade in Funny Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Richard Jefferson jokingly called out LeBron James regarding his exit from the Cleveland Cavaliers following the team&#8217;s addition of Dwyane Wade in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">When discussing the end of his Cavaliers tenure with former teammate J.R. Smith on The Richard Show, Jefferson playfully described his exit as &#8220;when Bron waived me&#8221; (12:52 mark).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Look, it was between one of his favorite teammates and one of his best friends,&#8221; Jefferson explained. &#8220;When D Wade got bought out and he came, I&#8217;m looking around like, &#8216;There&#8217;s a roster problem here.&#8217; They&#8217;re like, &#8216;Yeah Richard, we know.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Cavs signed Wade in Sept. 2017, reuniting him with James after the duo won two championships together during their shared time on the Miami Heat from 2010-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cleveland had 16 players with guaranteed deals on its roster as a result of the move, one more than the NBA maximum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">To help make room, the Cavs <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/reports-cleveland-cavaliers-trade-richard-jefferson-kay-felder-hawks\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">traded<\/a> Jefferson and guard Kay Felder to the Atlanta Hawks in Oct. 2017 before both players were later waived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jefferson, who won a title with James in Cleveland during the 2015-16 season, played one year on the Denver Nuggets after his Cavs stint before retiring in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">James and Wade weren&#8217;t able to replicate their success from Miami in Cleveland, as the latter star played just 46 games before he was traded back to the Heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Jefferson jokingly called out LeBron James regarding his exit from the Cleveland Cavaliers following the team&#8217;s addition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-748906","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\/748906","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=748906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}