{"id":364336,"date":"2026-10-04T20:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364336\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:32:16","slug":"lebron-james-commutes-back-to-nyc-via-helicopter-after-philly-scrimmage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364336\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Commutes Back to NYC Via Helicopter After Philly Scrimmage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          LeBron James<br \/>\n                          My Helicopter Commute From Philly Is A Breeze!!!<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              October 4, 2026<br \/>\n                            8:33 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c23f9796ca2e4fa8a70c9dad2952e4d3_md.png\" alt=\"100426_lebron_james_KAL_v2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lebron-james\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> is proving his helicopter commute from Philadelphia to NYC is a breeze &#8230; after the 76ers superstar wrapped up a major first milestone with his new team.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron &#8212; who is splitting time between NYC and Philly &#8212; had just finished his first scrimmage with the 76ers on Saturday &#8230; before taking the roughly 45-minute commute to New York.<\/p>\n<p>The scrimmage, held in front of 10,000 fans at a sold-out Xfinity Mobile Arena, was a success, according to LBJ.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>King James said &#8230; &#8220;To be able to take what we&#8217;ve done on the practice floor, bring it to a game floor situation around our fans &#8230; it was a great first step in the direction we&#8217;re trying to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/24\/lebron-james-joins-sixers\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier<\/a> &#8230; after much anticipation, LeBron decided to take his talents to the City of Brotherly Love in July.<\/p>\n<p>He said at the time &#8230; &#8220;I thought I was done when the season ended. I wasn&#8217;t ready to announce it, and I knew I needed some time to really decide, but I was pretty sure I played my last game. I was honest at that last press conference when I said I needed to look at myself and decide if I still love this game. I still truly love this game, and I have more to give.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James My Helicopter Commute From Philly Is A Breeze!!! Published October 4, 2026 8:33 AM PDT Play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-364336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}