{"id":805055,"date":"2026-07-17T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805055\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:46:13","slug":"draymond-green-says-hed-switch-jersey-number-if-lebron-james-signs-warriors-contract-reveals-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805055\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green Says He&#8217;d Switch Jersey Number if LeBron James Signs Warriors Contract, Reveals Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green indicated a willingness to change from his No. 23 to the No. 5 on social media Thursday, which would accommodate the potential addition of LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">James has worn both the No. 23 and No. 6 during his career, and the No. 6 is currently available in Golden State, so it&#8217;s possible Green wouldn&#8217;t have to give up his number were James to sign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While the Warriors remain one of the teams regularly mentioned when it comes to LeBron, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Philadelphia 76ers are reportedly the frontrunners:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The entire NBA is awaiting James&#8217; decision. If he chooses Golden State, it sounds as though he&#8217;ll have his choice of his two preferred numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green indicated a willingness to change from his No. 23 to the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-805055","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\/805055","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=805055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}