{"id":349465,"date":"2026-07-23T03:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349465\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T03:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:55:48","slug":"lebron-james-miami-heat-mistakenly-post-introductory-press-conference-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349465\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James: Miami Heat mistakenly post ‘introductory press conference’ video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat mistakenly posted a link on YouTube to LeBron James’ ‘introductory press conference’ despite the NBA great not yet deciding where he will play next season.<\/p>\n

The link to the live stream – scheduled for 27 July – was uploaded to the Heat’s channel on Tuesday before being deleted.<\/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 joining the side.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport has contacted Miami Heat for comment.<\/p>\n

James, 41, announced he was leaving the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in June after eight years, in which he led them to the 2020 NBA title – his fourth overall.<\/p>\n

He previously played for Miami between 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n

James averaged 20.9 points, 7.2 assists and 6.1 rebounds last season with the Lakers. <\/p>\n

The 22-time All-Star is the NBA’s all-time leader in games (1,622) and points (43,440).<\/p>\n

A return to Florida for James would form a formidable starting five for the Heat alongside fellow new signing and two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and centre Bam Adebayo.<\/p>\n

Given the Heat traded key members of their squad away to land Antetokounmpo from the Milwaukee Bucks, a player of James’ calibre would add further scoring power and experience with the Miami team focused on a quick rebuild towards a title push.<\/p>\n

But earlier this week, James’ agent Rich Paul said he is “not going to be rushed” into making a decision.<\/p>\n

“It’s his choice to make and when he makes the choice, he’ll make it,” Paul said on the Game Over with Max Kellerman and Rich Paul podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat mistakenly posted a link on YouTube to LeBron James’ ‘introductory press conference’ despite the NBA great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-349465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}