{"id":240773,"date":"2026-07-11T03:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:52:29","slug":"saquon-barkley-pitches-lebron-james-on-bringing-title-to-philadelphia-youd-be-remembered-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240773\/","title":{"rendered":"Saquon Barkley pitches LeBron James on bringing title to Philadelphia: &#8216;You&#8217;d be remembered forever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his youth football camp at Haddonfield High School in New Jersey, Eagles star running back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/saquon-barkley\/\" title=\"Saquon Barkley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saquon Barkley<\/a> was asked for his pitch to LeBron to join him in Philly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is one of the greatest sports towns in the world,&#8221; Barkley said, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBCSPhilly\/status\/2075314659733729691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via NBC Sports Philadelphia<\/a>. &#8220;I know (New York Knicks forward) Josh Hart said the opposite. I saw that today on Twitter. But I have to disagree with him. If you want to go out with a bang, I feel like a great spot would be in Philly, and bringing a championship to Philadelphia, you&#8217;d be remembered forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barkley knows a thing or two about immediately being a difference maker in Philly. The former New York Giants star joined the Eagles in 2024 and led them to the Super Bowl with a 2,005-yard season, which culminated in the second Lombardi lifting in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>James has won four career NBA championships, two with the Miami Heat, one with the Cavs and one with the Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his youth football camp at Haddonfield High School in New Jersey, Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3265,139,3266,56383,69,4538,71,70,7113],"class_list":["post-240773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-saquon-barkley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240773","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=240773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}