{"id":251600,"date":"2026-07-25T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:02:10","slug":"lebron-james-takes-biggest-pay-cut-ever-in-nba-history-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251600\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James takes biggest pay cut ever in NBA history in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/07\/24\/lebron-james-taking-the-biggest-pay-cut-in-nba-history-76ers\/91041925007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:When LeBron James decided to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million contract, he locked in some interesting NBA history, becoming the player to take the biggest pay cut ever.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;When LeBron James decided to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million contract, he locked in some interesting NBA history, becoming the player to take the biggest pay cut ever.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">When LeBron James decided to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million contract, he locked in some interesting NBA history, becoming the player to take the biggest pay cut ever.<\/a> After shattering the record for most points scored in a career, as well as most 1st Team All-NBAs, most All-Star appearances and most consecutive games scoring double-digit points, the biggest pay cut in NBA history doesn&#8217;t quite have the same level of aura, but even then, it&#8217;s more history made by the Akron native.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/07\/24\/lebron-james-taking-the-biggest-pay-cut-in-nba-history-76ers\/91041925007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:HoopsHype;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;HoopsHype&quot;}\" class=\"link \">HoopsHype<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When LeBron James decided to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million contract, he locked in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107551,18831,4794,69,1002,71,70],"class_list":["post-251600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-consecutive-games","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251600","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=251600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}