San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet is doing his part to help recruit one of the biggest names still available in free agency.<\/p>\n
Kornet posted a comedic YouTube video Friday personally inviting four-time NBA champion LeBron James to join the Spurs, making an intentionally awkward pitch that highlighted everything from Texas’ lack of a state income tax to SeaWorld and a local panader\u00eda.<\/p>\n
“Hey, LeBron… Mr. James… LeBron…,” Kornet began. “It’s Luke Kornet… number seven of the San Antonio Spurs.”<\/p>\n
The veteran center joked that he and James have crossed paths before, noting the time he had yelled at him during a game last season, a reference to the play when LeBron dunked on him, before quickly shifting into recruiter mode.<\/p>\n
“I just wanted to kind of extend the invitation to come over here to San Antonio,” Kornet said. “We got a great thing going. A lot of young talent. It’s an easy place to live, tax-free… You can play alongside a generational player, and Victor (Wembanyama) too.”<\/p>\n
Kornet then rattled off a list of reasons James should consider San Antonio, mentioning SeaWorld, praising a local favorite, La Panader\u00eda, he called “hidden” and “bussin’,” and even offering a guest room if the NBA’s all-time leading scorer needed a place to stay while making his decision.<\/p>\n
“We have a guest room available if you need some time to kind of figure things out on your end,” Kornet joked. “We’d be open to open our doors.”<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old also poked fun at James’ family, saying San Antonio is “a great place for kids” before stumbling through how much he knew about the future Hall of Famer’s children.<\/p>\n
Kornet wrapped up the recruiting pitch by appealing to James’ pursuit of another championship. Something Spurs fans are familiar with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You’re chasing number five, and we’ve got five,” Kornet said. “So we’re kind of all in the same ballpark. … If you could just sign, I’d really appreciate that.”<\/p>\n
He ended the video with one final message to Spurs fans.<\/p>\n
Whether\u00a0Kornet’s recruiting pitch has any effect on James’ free agency remains to be seen, but the video quickly drew attention from Spurs fans online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet is doing his part to help recruit one of the biggest names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-369579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369579","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=369579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}