{"id":824598,"date":"2026-07-25T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:09:13","slug":"report-no-plan-for-bronny-james-to-join-dad-on-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824598\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: No plan for Bronny James to join dad on 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/lebron-james\/0afbe608-940a-4d5d-a1f7-468718c67d91\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"0afbe608-940a-4d5d-a1f7-468718c67d91\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LeBron James<\/a> is leaving his son behind as he continues his career in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>James announced he was joining the 76ers on Friday, writing on social media that this was his &#8220;last decision&#8221; as he enters Year 24 in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the announcement, agent Rich Paul told ESPN&#8217;s Ramona Shelbourne that there are no plans for the 76ers to trade for James&#8217;s son Bronny, whose contract was guaranteed by the Lakers earlier in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron and Bronny made history as the first father-son teammates in NBA history when they played together on the Lakers during the 2024-25 season. Bronny, a guard, has appeared in 69 NBA games over the last two seasons, averaging eight minutes, 2.7 points and 1.1 assists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not going for money. I\u2019m not going for family,&#8221; LeBron James wrote of his decision to join the 76ers on social media. &#8220;What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win and to have a chance at the feeling of winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James is leaving his son behind as he continues his career in Philadelphia. James announced he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-824598","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\/824598","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=824598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}