{"id":817360,"date":"2026-07-22T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817360\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:28:09","slug":"nhls-jets-pga-tour-troll-heat-with-lebron-james-press-conference-joke-after-viral-youtube-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817360\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL’s Jets, PGA Tour Troll Heat with LeBron James Press Conference Joke After Viral YouTube Mishap\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winnipeg Jets are joining in on the buzz surrounding the Miami Heat accidentally posting<\/a> a scheduled livestream apparently announcing the team’s acquisition of star NBA free agent LeBron James.<\/p>\n

The Jets shared a link<\/a> Wednesday to an upcoming introductory press conference for James on the NHL team’s official YouTube channel. <\/p>\n

The PGA Tour also got in on the fun: <\/p>\n

The Heat previously uploaded a scheduled video titled “LeBron James Introductory Press Conference” to their own YouTube channel. The video, which was set to broadcast July 27, was later deleted.<\/p>\n

Anthony Chiang<\/a> of the Miami Herald reported the video “was a mistake by the Heat’s social media department while preparing for the possibility of LeBron picking the Heat.”<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, Chiang reported there was “no validity” to James going to the Heat.<\/p>\n

The Heat at least have a better shot at signing James than the Jets, which are focused this offseason on deciding<\/a> whether to trade star netminder Connor Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Shams Charania<\/a> previously named<\/a> the Heat as one of three teams, alongside the Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers, that James had a “focus on” in free agency.<\/p>\n

Where James ultimately signs will impact more than just his next team’s title hopes. NBA commissioner Adam Silver indicated<\/a> last week the league is waiting for James’ decision to finalize the league’s 2026-27 schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets are joining in on the buzz surrounding the Miami Heat accidentally posting a scheduled livestream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-817360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817360","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=817360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}