{"id":796141,"date":"2026-07-12T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796141\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:32:19","slug":"draymond-made-crazy-recruitment-pitch-to-lebron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796141\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond made &#8216;crazy&#8217; recruitment pitch to LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draymond Green took the opportunity while on a recent golf trip in Puerto Rico with LeBron James to pitch the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer on the idea of teaming up in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d be crazy if we&#8217;re together for x amount of days and at no point am I like, &#8216;Yo, we need to chop it up. What the hell going on? What we doing?'&#8221; Green <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DraymondShow\/status\/2076290480392876049?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> on &#8220;The Draymond Green Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green, 36, is reportedly expected to sign a multi-year deal to remain with the Golden State Warriors after declining a $27.7-million player option for 2026-27. That move could create the financial flexibility required to sign James.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course the pitch was crazy,&#8221; Green added. &#8221; &#8230; With the things I shared in it, it definitely is gonna make the brain work a little bit &#8230; but we weren&#8217;t going to hang out for a recruitment pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have been <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3555777\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nba\/news\/3555777\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked<\/a> with a double swoop for James and his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate, Anthony Davis, who plays for the Washington Wizards. The Wizards have <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3560701\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nba\/news\/3560701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> dispelled the notion that Davis, who has one year left on his current terms and a player option for 2027-28, is on the trading block.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors guard Steph Curry recently <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3564856\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nba\/news\/3564856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that playing alongside James &#8220;would be such a unique story in NBA history.&#8221; The four-time NBA champ attempted to quell speculation about James joining the Warriors, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;a little premature right now to talk about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James&#8217; agent, Rich Paul, <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3562485\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nba\/news\/3562485\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">insisted<\/a> last week that a decision wasn&#8217;t imminent. <\/p>\n<p>The Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Denver Nuggets are among the teams under consideration, per a <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3562084\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nba\/news\/3562084\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">white board<\/a> image shared by Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draymond Green took the opportunity while on a recent golf trip in Puerto Rico with LeBron James to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-796141","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\/796141","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=796141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}