{"id":293223,"date":"2026-02-15T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293223\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:11:19","slug":"watch-lebron-james-expresses-desire-to-visit-israel-praises-avdijas-all-star-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293223\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: LeBron James expresses desire to visit Israel, praises Avdija\u2019s All-Star season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">NBA superstar LeBron James on Sunday expressed a desire to visit Israel someday, saying he has only heard good things about the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">James was speaking to reporters before the NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles and was asked about Israeli basketball player Deni Avdija, who made history by becoming <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/421806\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the first Israeli<\/a> to be selected to play in the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been quoted on Deni already and asked what I think about his season &#8211; I said I believe he&#8217;s an All-Star. He plays exceptional basketball,&#8221; replied the 41-year-old Lakers star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Asked what his message is to his Israeli fans, James said, \u201cI\u2019ve never been there, but if I have fans over there, then I hope you\u2019ve been following my career. I hope I inspire people over there to not only be great in sports but to be better in general, in life. Hopefully someday I can make it over there. I\u2019ve heard nothing but great things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA superstar LeBron James on Sunday expressed a desire to visit Israel someday, saying he has only heard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69925,85,46,3035,47352,43],"class_list":["post-293223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-deni-avdija","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293223","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=293223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}