{"id":254817,"date":"2026-07-29T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:15:10","slug":"pennsylvania-gov-shapiro-blasted-after-declaring-lebron-james-day-following-76ers-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254817\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro Blasted After Declaring &#8216;LeBron James Day&#8217; Following 76ers Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy is decrying Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro&#8217;s decision to call for a LeBron James Day in the commonwealth. Portnoy said the decision disrespects Philadelphia legends and prioritizes the wrong hometown icons.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro announced his introduction of LeBron James Day in Pennsylvania on July 24, the day he signed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">the 76ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Portnoy stated that Allen Iverson, Julius Erving, and Bryce Harper deserve more recognition than LeBron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found it stunning that the governor already declared a LeBron James Day,\u201d Portnoy posted on social media. \u201cIt&#8217;s a slap in the face to Dr. J (Julius Erving), Allen Iverson, Bryce Harper and a lot of great Philadelphia athletes who never had a day named after them. This guy, at the ripe old age of 74, comes into town and gets a day named after him. I&#8217;m telling you, they had better get going fast when he&#8217;s on the team because this guy&#8217;s personality and psyche does not fit with the city of Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James reportedly turned down offers from the Cavaliers and the Warriors before signing with the 76ers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/2598240-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According to HITC<\/a>, the 76ers have not won an NBA championship since 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy is decrying Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro&#8217;s decision to call for a LeBron James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1002],"class_list":["post-254817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254817","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=254817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}