{"id":263673,"date":"2026-08-12T02:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263673\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:54:09","slug":"artist-paints-mural-in-chinatown-celebrating-lebron-james-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263673\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist paints mural in Chinatown celebrating LeBron James \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new mural in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/chinatown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chinatown<\/a> is celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/lebron-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LeBron James<\/a>&#8216; decision to join the Sixers by mixing one of his iconic dunks with a Chinese legend and William Penn. <\/p>\n<p>Artist Chenlin Cai painted the mural in Philadelphia&#8217;s iconic Chinatown on Tuesday. It features LeBron in a Sixers jersey dunking a dragon ball with waves behind him, which is inspired by the Chinese legend &#8220;Dragon&#8217;s Gate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In front of LeBron is William Penn, who represents Philly welcoming the legendary player. Penn is also positioned to give LeBron an alley-oop, which pays homage to the iconic Alley-Oop\u201d play between LeBron and his Miami Heat teammate, Dwyane Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new mural in Chinatown is celebrating LeBron James&#8216; decision to join the Sixers by mixing one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12063,18831,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-263673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chinatown","tag-lebron-james","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263673","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=263673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}