{"id":369258,"date":"2026-07-11T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:06:06","slug":"luke-kornet-jokingly-pitches-lebron-james-on-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369258\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Kornet jokingly pitches LeBron James on San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">James\u2019 agent Rich Paul has asked all teams interested in signing James in free agency to send a voice memo pitch, ESPN reported. In Kornet\u2019s two minute pitch, he re-introduced himself and shared an invitation to San Antonio. \u201cHey Lebron. Mr. James&#8230;It\u2019s Luke Kornet, number seven of the <a data-autotag=\"13196729-d867-4914-8227-582a16eadb0b\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>. You yelled at me a little bit last week or last year,\u201d Kornet said in the video. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/11\/luke-kornet-leaks-pitch-to-lebron-james-amid-free-agency-rumors-espn-reports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on KSAT.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Kornet mentioned living state tax-free, Seaworld, La Panaderi\u0301a and as benefits of calling San Antonio home. Additionally, Kornet jokingly described himself as \u201ca generational player\u201d in the pitch. Victor Wembanyama was mentioned as another draw to play for the Spurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/11\/luke-kornet-leaks-pitch-to-lebron-james-amid-free-agency-rumors-espn-reports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on KSAT.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">KSAT.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James\u2019 agent Rich Paul has asked all teams interested in signing James in free agency to send a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33,82,84,83,111437,58289,58290,6326,3198,1589,74914,27506,185,81600,217,130826,215,2578,46,13307,216,36],"class_list":["post-369258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-accessfree","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-tagfree-agency","tag-taglebron-james","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagluke-kornet","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagrich-paul","tag-tagsan-antonio","tag-tagsan-antonio-spurs","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagvictor-wembanyama","tag-tx","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}