While most teams would roll out the red carpet for star free agent LeBron James, Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce feels that his former franchise doesn’t need his services.<\/p>\n
When asked by TMZ<\/a> if he would like to see James sign with the Celtics, Pierce surprisingly dismissed the possibility completely.<\/p>\n “No, we don’t want him on the Celtics,” Pierce said.<\/p>\n Luckily for Pierce, it doesn’t appear that Boston is in the running to land James. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst<\/a> recently reported<\/a> that the 41-year-old “hates Boston,” and he feels “Boston would rank 30th on his list.” According to ESPN’s\u00a0Shams Charania<\/a>, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Philadelphia 76ers are top contenders to sign James this summer.<\/p>\n Pierce told TMZ that he feels James should pursue a reunion with the Cavs as he nears the end of his legendary career.<\/p>\n “I think his best fit is Cleveland,” Pierce said.<\/p>\n While the basketball world is in a holding pattern as James ponders his decision, Pierce added that his former rival has every right to take his time before announcing his next team.<\/p>\n “He can do whatever he wants at this stage,” Pierce said. “His decision is his decision, man. I’m not holding my breath waiting on him to make a decision. Whatever decision he makes is gonna be the right one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While most teams would roll out the red carpet for star free agent LeBron James, Boston Celtics legend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-816754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816754","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=816754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}