New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nJames, the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer, announced in July that he had signed a two-year, $8 million deal with the 76ers.<\/p>\n
It ended weeks of speculation over where the four-time NBA champion would land as a free agent after eight seasons and one title with the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old superstar, entering a record-extending 24th NBA season, won two titles with Miami, another with Cleveland and a fourth with the Lakers and is aiming to help the Sixers win their first title since Julius Erving led the club to the crown 43 years ago.<\/p>\n
LeBron James made his first appearance for the Philadelphia 76ers against Brooklyn.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
James scored 10 points, connecting on his lone shot from the floor and making all eight of his free-throw attempts. <\/p>\n
He added four rebounds, five assists and a steal in 18:04 minutes in the first half.<\/p>\n
He connected with V.J. Edgecombe twice early, first with an incredible outlet pass before finding the youngster with a smooth no-look pass for an easy dunk.<\/p>\n
James attempted just one field goal across his 18 minutes on the floor, instead looking to get his new teammates involved.<\/p>\n
And it didn\u2019t take long for some of his plays in a 76ers uniform to get fans excited.<\/p>\n
Edgecombe was all smiles when asked about the unselfish approach from the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe already got the record, he don\u2019t care to score any more,\u201d Edgecombe joked.<\/p>\n
Brown led all scorers with 18 points and Julius Randle had 14 for the Nets, who out-scored the Sixers 37-23 in the third quarter to take control.<\/p>\n
But all eyes were on James, starting with his first signature pre-game chalk-toss in a 76ers uniform.<\/p>\n
James smoothly directed the Sixers offense in his time on the floor, making all five of his assists in the first quarter and combining effectively with Maxey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there was some really good things happening, you know, right off the bat,\u201d 76ers coach Nick Nurse said after seeing his starters together for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bunch of back cuts and good passing et cetera… there were segments where obviously we turned the ball over a lot… just the little clunky segments, too. But, again, it\u2019s pre-season, first time they\u2019re together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you look at it as what\u2019s good and what are the learning experiences, things that we can improve.\u201d<\/p>\n
James finished with 10 points, five assists and four rebounds in just over 18 minutes.Source: AP<\/p>\n
The 76ers have two more pre-season games, both against Boston, before opening the NBA regular season against the defending champion New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on October 20.<\/p>\n
James\u2019 arrival has already found the 76ers battling outside \u201cnoise\u201d.<\/p>\n
James took to Instagram to refute a report from a play-by-play announcer during the team\u2019s first pre-season game on Monday that James had admonished Embiid for being late to practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe ain\u2019t been late, so stop the lie,\u201d James posted.<\/p>\n
Embiid has now also shut down the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know where that came from. It never happened,\u201d Embiid said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne, it\u2019s not true. And then again it\u2019s like, \u2018Why me?\u2019 But I guess I\u2019m Joel Embiid, I\u2019ve been in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Embiid believes the new-look group simply needs to stick together as the attention around the team grows.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as we know who we are [we will be OK] and we just got to stick together,\u201d Embiid said.<\/p>\n
James had acknowledged at the team\u2019s media day last month that the outside noise around the 76ers would be \u201cdoubled, tripled and quadrupled now that I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James has given Philadelphia fans their first glimpse of what life with the NBA superstar could look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-921721","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\/921721","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=921721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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