It\u2019s nearly a week later, other NBA business is going down, yet all anyone around the league \u2014 executives, players, fans \u2014 seems to talk about is LeBron James\u2019 decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers. Here are the latest reactions and fallout from the decision<\/p>\n
Draymond Green talks LeBron\u2019s reasoning<\/p>\n
Not many people met with LeBron during his decision-making process, he kept the circle tight, but Draymond Green was one of the exceptions. On his Draymond Green Show podcast, he talked about what he believed was behind LeBron\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
Draymond reacts to LeBron’s decision to sign with the 76ers instead of Warriors<\/p>\n
“I ultimately don’t think Bron was ever able to get over the history and I understand it, I get it… he’s gonna get crushed if he comes to the Warriors, ‘ahhhh man you went to team up with Steph’\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/K5PdHwUIUC<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Draymond Green Show (@DraymondShow) July 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou look at Golden State, and I ultimately don\u2019t think Bron was ever able to get over the history, and I understand it, I get it. What we all ultimately always knew was like, that\u2019s the hurdle to get over. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the team, the organization, anything else. I think it\u2019s the history. We live in a day and age where everybody who doesn\u2019t have anything to say has something to say. And so, he\u2019s gonna get crushed if he comes to the Warriors, \u2018Ahh man, you went to team up with Steph, you had to go to them.\u2019 I think ultimately that weighed in on the decision a lot. That played a big role in the Warriors not landing LeBron.\u201d<\/p>\n LeBron\u2019s haters were going to criticize any decision he made, and he understood that, which is why what others thought likely played no role in his choice. The history with the Warriors thing, that is real, something ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater talked about<\/a> on NBA Today (that and the fact the Warriors, even with LeBron, would not be contenders).<\/p>\n \u201cI had a source tell me they think LeBron would have been more interested in playing with Steph Curry elsewhere, away from the Warriors, than actually going to the Warriors, just because of the history. And they think that\u2019s part of the reason they were never ultimately considered.\u201d<\/p>\n Which is why the idea that if the Warriors had traded for Anthony Davis things would have been different doesn\u2019t fly. If the Warriors had been told by Rich Paul or LeBron that landing Davis guaranteed he was coming to the Bay Area the Warriors would have approached a Davis trade differently (and far more aggressively), but that was never the message given the Golden State front office. <\/p>\n In the wake of LeBron\u2019s decision, Green has re-signed with the Warriors,<\/a> as expected.<\/p>\n LeBron talked to Cavaliers ownership<\/p>\n While the public story was that Rich Paul was the sole intermediary between LeBron and the front offices and ownership of the teams he was considering, that was not totally true. ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania had previously reported that LeBron met with Cavaliers ownership, and on his Game Over podcast, LeBron\u2019s agent, Rich Paul, confirmed that<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Cavaliers made their pitch and ultimately it was just not enough, but LeBron did meet with them.<\/p>\n How the 76ers found out<\/p>\n The Philadelphia 76ers didn\u2019t find out they had won the LeBron sweepstakes until just before the announcement went public \u2014 and they found out via a text from Rich Paul, reports Dave McMenamin of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paul\u2019s group text reached a contingent of 76ers stakeholders all at once, including team governor Josh Harris; co-owner David Blitzer; Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment president Bob Myers; executive vice president of basketball operations Jameer Nelson; and two-time All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey.<\/p>\n \u201cCongrats,\u201d the text read. \u201cSixers it is.\u201d<\/p>\n 76ers president of basketball operations Mike Gansey found out in a separate text, he was back in his native Ohio with family at the time.<\/p>\n He walked upstairs to tell his wife, Amy, first. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Babe, we just got LeBron,\u2019\u201d Gansey told ESPN. \u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018What?!\u2019 I\u2019ll never forget that. And just seeing Rich\u2019s texts and being like, \u2018Oh my gosh, here we go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Here we go indeed.<\/p>\n