The drama level of the Sixers\u2019 offseason skyrocketed Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Hours after the team agreed to trade for Jaylen Brown<\/a> in a deal sending Paul George and draft picks to the Celtics, The Athletic\u2019s Tony Jones reported the following:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Philadelphia 76ers have expressed interest in acquiring free agent forward LeBron James.\u201d<\/p>\n The 41-year-old James has decided he won\u2019t return to the Lakers<\/a> and is an unrestricted free agent. To join the Sixers, it appears he would need to take a very sizable pay cut from his $52.6 million salary last season.<\/a> The Sixers will have three major contracts on their books in Joel Embiid, Brown and Tyrese Maxey.<\/a><\/p>\n If James came on board, the hope would presumably be that he\u2019d boost the Sixers\u2019 playmaking, versatility and veteran knowhow as the team pushed for an NBA championship. James made his 22nd consecutive All-Star Game last season and averaged 20.9 points, 7.2 assists and 6.1 rebounds.\u00a0He’s one of the sport’s all-time greats and nowhere near the typical player his age.<\/p>\n Jones wrote that \u201cthe Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat are also considered among the frontrunners for James\u2019 services.\u201d<\/p>\n James has shared summer workouts with Maxey and thinks highly of the Sixers\u2019 All-NBA guard<\/a> (both are represented by Klutch Sports\u2019 Rich Paul). He won a gold medal for Team USA with Embiid at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drama level of the Sixers\u2019 offseason skyrocketed Wednesday night. Hours after the team agreed to trade for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18831,4794,100841,69,1002,71,70,10794],"class_list":["post-233430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sixers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}