{"id":807955,"date":"2026-07-17T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807955\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:56:31","slug":"if-they-want-to-play-how-hes-played-for-23-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807955\/","title":{"rendered":"If they want to play how he\u2019s played for 23 years \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heat Central: Brian Windhorst on Pat Riley recruiting LeBron James: \u201cThe fact he is taking this opportunity while welcoming Giannis to appeal to LeBron is a indication of how badly the Heat want him\u2026. The Heat make a compelling case. If LeBron wants to play the type of basketball that is more comfortable to him, where he has the ball, the Heat are the team that is the fit for that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheHeatCentral\/status\/2078093392869818811\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:if they want to play how he\u2019s played for 23 years Miami makes sense plus Giannis and Bam provide the defensive cover. If he\u2019s going to play multiple years It\u2019d give the Heat to build this roster up. That\u2019s a factor as well.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;if they want to play how he\u2019s played for 23 years Miami makes sense plus Giannis and Bam provide the defensive cover. If he\u2019s going to play multiple years It\u2019d give the Heat to build this roster up. That\u2019s a factor as well.\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">if they want to play how he\u2019s played for 23 years Miami makes sense plus Giannis and Bam provide the defensive cover. If he\u2019s going to play multiple years It\u2019d give the Heat to build this roster up. That\u2019s a factor as well.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheHeatCentral\/status\/2078093392869818811\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:x.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;x.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">x.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heat Central: Brian Windhorst on Pat Riley recruiting LeBron James: \u201cThe fact he is taking this opportunity while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[55184,49,48,32856,283724,2327,6390,459,199312,82,42155],"class_list":["post-807955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brian-windhorst","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-giannis","tag-heat-central","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami","tag-nba","tag-pat-riley","tag-sports","tag-the-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}