LeBron James explained that the Philadelphia 76ers must prevent media narratives from affecting the team throughout the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to have a bunker mentality,” James said on his Mind the Game podcast (47:50 mark). “It’s unfortunate, but very fortunate. The noise that comes with me, good, bad, indifferent. Everything, it’s a little different. Is it warranted? I don’t even know. If we have a bunker mentality on like, ‘Nothing matters outside what we have.’ Whether we’re at the practice facility or we at the arena, nothing matters. Everyone’s gonna have their opinion.”<\/p>\n
“The only thing that matters is what we preach every day and how we’re gonna hold each other accountable,” he added.<\/p>\n
The 76ers wrapped up a busy offseason in which they added James and five-time All-Star Jaylen Brown to a core that includes Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia’s moves have generated plenty of attention<\/a>, which should only continue to grow once the 2026-27 season begins.<\/p>\n Embiid’s injury history has been widely discussed<\/a> in recent years, while Brown’s relationship with former teammate Jayson Tatum was under the spotlight<\/a> as he exited the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n Maxey and Edgecombe proved to be an explosive young backcourt and helped Philadelphia make a second-round playoff appearance last season, but questions could arise if the guards aren’t as productive with two new stars entering the mix.<\/p>\n As James gears up for his 24th year in the NBA, he doesn’t want his new teammates to be impacted by any outside noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James explained that the Philadelphia 76ers must prevent media narratives from affecting the team throughout the 2026-27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-909539","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\/909539","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=909539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}