PHILADELPHIA – For the first time in eight years, LeBron James wore something other than a Lakers jersey on a NBA court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James joined his brand new Philadelphia 76ers teammates in an inter-squad scrimmage at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m just trying to build and hope every day is an opportunity for us to get better and better. It’s just a one percent each day mentality for us,\u201d James said after the scrimmage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The arena sold out all of its available tickets for the scrimmage as fans in South Philly wanted to get their first glimpse at four-time NBA Champion, and 24-year veteran megastar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously it was fun to be able to play some of our Philly and I’m thankful for the first time,\u201d James added.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to take what we’ve done, you know, on the practice floor brings a game, to our game for situation and around our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
The now former Laker is the biggest name on what is now a superstar laden team in Philadelphia. Joining the likes of NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey, sophomore sensation VJ Edgecombe, and former MVP Joel Embiid.<\/p>\n
The question is – can this superteam on paper actually work on the court? Embiid has no concerns at least when it comes to playing with James.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you put two (or a bunch) of players who have a high basketball IQ it\u2019s going to be easy to figure it out,\u201d Embiid said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 76ers are hoping they do figure it out sooner rather than later. The franchise has not reached the NBA Finals since 2001, and hasn’t won a championship since the first term of the Reagan presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James has gone on record about his expectations of excellence for this Sixers team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t leave my family to lose in the second round,\u201d he said during the team’s media day.<\/p>\n
James has won a championship with championship with every franchise he’s played for thus far, the latest coming in 2020 with the Lakers.<\/p>\n
The new look 76ers begin their season in New York, against the defending champion Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James will return to Los Angeles on Christmas Day, when the Sixers face the Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – For the first time in eight years, LeBron James wore something other than a Lakers jersey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18831,30547,4794,139,69,1002,71,70,122854],"class_list":["post-299512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-tst-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299512","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=299512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}