{"id":263730,"date":"2026-01-29T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:29:09","slug":"lebron-james-wipes-away-tears-during-la-lakers-defeat-at-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263730\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James wipes away tears during LA Lakers defeat at Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NBA legend LeBron James was brought to tears by a tribute video during the Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; defeat at the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, 41, returned to his home state and former team for possibly the last time on Wednesday as speculation continues over whether he will retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won the NBA title with the Cavaliers in 2016 after returning for a second stint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the break after the first quarter at Rocket Arena, the Cavaliers showed highlights of James&#8217; performance in game five of the 2007 Eastern Conference finals, when he scored 48 points to seal a double overtime victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James started watching the video before pulling his vest over his face then wiping his eyes with a tissue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to take everything in, not take the moments for granted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA legend LeBron James was brought to tears by a tribute video during the Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-263730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}