{"id":709205,"date":"2026-07-24T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:46:07","slug":"lebron-james-to-join-philadelphia-76ers-after-los-angeles-lakers-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709205\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James to join Philadelphia 76ers after Los Angeles Lakers exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

LeBron James has announced he will be joining the Philadelphia 76ers next season for what he says will be his final contract in the NBA.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old, the highest points scorer in the history of the league, left the Los Angeles Lakers after eight years last month. <\/p>\n

The Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves and Miami Heat were also rumored to be in the running for the four-time NBA champion.<\/p>\n

“I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energise a new fanbase and start this incredible journey one last time,” James said on X., external<\/a><\/p>\n

James has won an NBA title with all three teams he previously played for. He won two with Miami, who earlier this week mistakenly posted a link to an ‘introductory press conference’ for James.<\/p>\n

A Heat spokesperson told Reuters, external<\/a> the video was posted in error by staff who were preparing for the possibility of James rejoining the team he played for between 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n

Either side of that, James had two spells with Cleveland, who drafted James in 2003 and are based near his hometown of Akron, Ohio.<\/p>\n

“Miami I’ll forever love and Northeast Ohio will always [be] home,” James added.<\/p>\n

James helped the Cavs become NBA champions in 2016 and joined the Lakers in 2018, claiming another NBA title two years later.<\/p>\n

He has been named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player four times, all between 2009 and 2013, and has been an NBA All-Star the last 22 seasons running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James has announced he will be joining the Philadelphia 76ers next season for what he says will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-709205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}