{"id":251958,"date":"2026-07-25T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:12:36","slug":"lebron-james-signing-with-the-philadelphia-76ers-i-am-so-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251958\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James signing with the Philadelphia 76ers: &#8216;I am so excited&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jsw7dilv8hfn5ru6.jpg\" alt=\"LeBron James signs with the Sixers\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jsw7dilv8hfn5ru6.jpg\" alt=\"LeBron James signs with the Sixers\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/video\/fmc-ha53aee35hugr1gt\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James signs with the Sixers<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">After much speculation, LeBron James has officially signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. The 41-year-old will join the Sixers in search of his fifth NBA Championship to round out his historic basketball resume. FOX 29&#8217;s Jenn Frederick breaks down all the excitement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; NBA legend and international icon LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia Sixers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The 41-year-old will join the Sixers in search of his fifth NBA Championship to round out his historic basketball resume.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">James announced the news Friday morningon X, saying &#8220;I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team, and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The NBA legend will sign a 2-year, $8 million deal with a player option, according to reports by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2080677097463312412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed July 24 to be &#8220;LeBron James Day&#8221; following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/r8zutgcd7kj9gpy3.jpg\" alt=\"Philly welcomes LeBron James with open arms\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/r8zutgcd7kj9gpy3.jpg\" alt=\"Philly welcomes LeBron James with open arms\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Sixers will be the fourth team in LeBron&#8217;s 23-year career, which started in Cleveland, then to Miami, then back to Cleveland, before heading to the Lakers for the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He will join Joel Embiid, young guards Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe, and the newly acquired Jaylen Brown, to form one of the NBA&#8217;s fiercest starting lineups.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LeBron&#8217;s career resume speaks for itself, with four NBA Championships \u2013 each of which he won Finals MVP \u2013 and four league MVP awards. He&#8217;s also been an NBA All-Star in 22 seasons and was named All-NBA First-Team 13 times.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Details about when LeBron will be introduced have not been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was sourced from LeBron James&#8217; X account, ESPN and previous reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James signs with the Sixers After much speculation, LeBron James has officially signed with the Philadelphia 76ers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4794,139,539,69,1002,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-251958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251958","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=251958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}