{"id":251349,"date":"2026-07-24T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:25:08","slug":"lebron-james-to-sign-with-76ers-in-nba-free-agency-live-updates-reaction-and-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251349\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James to sign with 76ers in NBA free agency: Live updates, reaction and analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timberwolves could afford to wait out LeBron James&#8217; decision because there weren\u2019t exactly a lot of great options available upon which to miss out. With only minimum contracts available, they signed Trey Lyles, who played for Tim Connelly in Denver, after he spent last season in Europe. But other bigger names such as Rui Hachimura, Sandro Mamukelashvili and John Collins all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7451380\/2026\/07\/24\/minnesota-timberwolves-free-agency-lebron\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed deals for far more than the Wolves could offer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom would then lead to the assumption that, given his 6-foot-10 frame and rim-protecting abilities, Jaden McDaniels would slide to power forward in the starting lineup. But Wolves coach Chris Finch made it clear to The Athletic that he is not thinking that way at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see Jaden playing largely the same role he\u2019s always played,\u201d Finch said. \u201cBut of course he can slide over to play four, and you get a chance to get other guys on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that\u2019s what we feel at the end of training camp is the best thing for us, then of course we\u2019ll do it,\u201d Finch said of more power forward minutes for McDaniels. \u201cBut that\u2019s not necessarily my mindset going in. My mindset going here right now is way more open and lean into other things, whether it be creativity or finding a guy or the right guys across both lineups, first and second, that unlock it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves could afford to wait out LeBron James&#8217; decision because there weren\u2019t exactly a lot of great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-251349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251349","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=251349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}