{"id":251680,"date":"2026-07-25T05:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251680\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:21:19","slug":"saquon-barkley-gov-josh-shapiro-welcome-lebron-james-to-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251680\/","title":{"rendered":"Saquon Barkley, Gov. Josh Shapiro welcome LeBron James to Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 LeBron James, the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer, announced Friday morning that he will play for the 76ers next season, saying he believes he can make them a championship team. Local Eagles Super Bowl champion Saquon Barkley, and Gov. Josh Shapiro are helping welcome LeBron James to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the city! Let me know when you tryna tee it up \ud83c\udfcc\ud83c\udffd\u26f3\ufe0f,\u201d Barkley said in an X post.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the city! Let me know when you tryna tee it up \ud83c\udfcc\ud83c\udffd\u26f3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@KingJames<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saquon Barkley (@saquon) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saquon\/status\/2080681992710935008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shapiro wrote on X, \u201cLEBRON IS COMING TO PHILLY. By the power vested in me as the Governor of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a die-hard Sixers fan\u2026 I hereby proclaim today to be LEBRON JAMES DAY. Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LEBRON IS COMING TO PHILLY.<\/p>\n<p>By the power vested in me as the Governor of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a die-hard Sixers fan\u2026 I hereby proclaim today to be LEBRON JAMES DAY.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@KingJames<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHsNkCFyyN\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JHsNkCFyyN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovernorShapiro\/status\/2080680553683046819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 agent Rich Paul told ESPN on Friday that James is signing a two-year deal with the 76ers worth $8 million, a salary just over the veteran minimum. James\u00a0announced the move on Instagram\u00a0with a career retrospective video set to Philadelphia native Meek Mill\u2019s \u201cDreams and Nightmares\u201d that ends with a 76ers logo.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old is arguably the best to ever do it, looking for a coda to his stellar career. The 22-time All-Star won NBA titles with Miami in 2012 and 2013, with Cleveland in 2016 and with the Lakers in 2020. He was the finals MVP all four times. A four-time regular-season MVP and 13-time All-NBA first-teamer is the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer, setting records that are likely to never be surpassed.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s played 302 career playoff games, averaging 28.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 7.2 assists in more than 41.2 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 LeBron James, the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer, announced Friday morning that he will play for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[182,200,4794,28,30,29,1002,726,1015],"class_list":["post-251680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-local-news","tag-montgomery-county","tag-nba","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-mer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251680","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=251680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}