{"id":881964,"date":"2026-09-06T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:58:09","slug":"delonte-west-says-lebron-james-recruited-him-to-cleveland-during-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881964\/","title":{"rendered":"Delonte West says LeBron James recruited him to Cleveland during a game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delonte West: &#8220;We were playing Cleveland, out in Seattle, the first month of the season, and I was cooking them. I remember we were sitting at the foul line, and LeBron James, he was like, man, I followed you in college. You remember that time I came to Philly at the Palestra to watch you play? And I was like, yeah, I remember. He was like, man, you want to come play with Cleveland? I thought he was just doing a veteran trick. (&#8230;) <a data-ylk=\"slk:I thought he was just trying to get me out of my game by getting familiarity. But he was serious. He asked me to come play with Cleveland.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;I thought he was just trying to get me out of my game by getting familiarity. But he was serious. He asked me to come play with Cleveland.\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9cK7C2i6b4&amp;t=1440s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">I thought he was just trying to get me out of my game by getting familiarity. But he was serious. He asked me to come play with Cleveland.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delonte West: &#8220;We were playing Cleveland, out in Seattle, the first month of the season, and I was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,6115,451154,7896,590,85],"class_list":["post-881964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland","tag-delonte-west-we","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881964","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=881964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}