{"id":828386,"date":"2026-07-28T04:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:54:16","slug":"even-more-late-night-nba-intel-albeit-not-as-late-night-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828386\/","title":{"rendered":"Even MORE Late Night NBA Intel &#8230; albeit not as late night as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!ieFQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0610669-9934-42a0-8ea4-c4a986ae9d0c_1100x220.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/c0610669-9934-42a0-8ea4-c4a986ae9d0c_1100.png\" width=\"1100\" height=\"220\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/c0610669-9934-42a0-8ea4-c4a986ae9d0c_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:78412,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/i\/208746592?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0610669-9934-42a0-8ea4-c4a986ae9d0c_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ol&#8217; publisher had lots of Late Night NBA Intel to share in the wee hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s my turn.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive right into everything I&#8217;m hearing on a variety of trade and free agency fronts in the wake of LeBron James&#8217; (still) stunning decision to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PHLY_Sixers\/status\/2081807764402118836?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component-name=\"Twitter2ToDOM\" class=\"pencraft pc-display-contents pc-reset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/pbs.substack.com\/profile_images\/1701559599495528448\/Ev_K6t8R.jpg\" alt=\"X avatar for @PHLY_Sixers\"  width=\"40\" height=\"40\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"img-OACg1c object-fit-cover-u4ReeV pencraft pc-reset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PHLY Sixers@PHLY_Sixers<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese practicing with his new teammate. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HOQRFWGWMAArnm-.jpg\" class=\"image-c_FmAR\"\/><\/p>\n<p>6:23 PM \u00b7 Jul 27, 2026 \u00b7 1.99K Views<\/p>\n<p>2 Replies \u00b7 6 Reposts \u00b7 87 Likes<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!e8kB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdccfd35-e988-45c8-9972-c7f1c1cdd5dd_1384x280.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/cdccfd35-e988-45c8-9972-c7f1c1cdd5dd_1384.png\" width=\"252\" height=\"50.982658959537574\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/cdccfd35-e988-45c8-9972-c7f1c1cdd5dd_1384x280.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:280,&quot;width&quot;:1384,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:252,&quot;bytes&quot;:53185,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/post.substack.com\/i\/194570960?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdccfd35-e988-45c8-9972-c7f1c1cdd5dd_1384x280.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an anticipation that this week could deliver resolutions to the free agent summers for Cleveland&#8217;s James Harden and Golden State&#8217;s Draymond Green. Both former All-Stars declined lucrative player options for the 2026-27 season to give their teams greater optionality to pursue James. Now that the 41-year-old has chosen the 76ers, Harden and Green are expected to soon ink new deals to stay where they are.<\/p>\n<p>One more note about James before we take a broader spin around the league \u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ol&#8217; publisher had lots of Late Night NBA Intel to share in the wee hours of Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-828386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828386","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=828386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}