{"id":451057,"date":"2026-02-05T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:26:09","slug":"jr-smith-thinks-lebron-james-will-go-back-to-cleveland-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451057\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Smith thinks LeBron James will go back to Cleveland next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland recently reshaped its roster by acquiring James Harden from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> and adding Dennis Schroder and Keon Ellis in a deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sacramento Kings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sacramento Kings<\/a>. The activity prompted Smith, a key member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cavaliers<\/a>\u2019 2016 NBA championship team, to weigh in on James\u2019 future during the latest episode of FanDuel\u2019s Run It Back. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\/cavaliers-news-jr-smith-speculates-that-lebron-james-returns-to-cleveland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cI mean this is speculation. I don\u2019t know. This is all speculation, but we still got our group chat and all that. We still talk, but honestly, this is my opinion, but I think he goes back to Cleveland next year,\u201d Smith said. \u201cRides it out. Rides into the sunset. I don\u2019t think this is his last year. I think he doesn\u2019t have to keep playing, but I still think he has a lot left in the tank to where he\u2019s very impactful. Especially to a team like Cleveland with the pieces they already have.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cI mean this is speculation. I don\u2019t know. This is all speculation, but we still got our group chat and all that. We still talk, but honestly, this is my opinion, but I think he goes back to Cleveland next year,\u201d Smith said. \u201cRides it out. Rides into the sunset. I don\u2019t think this is his last year. I think he doesn\u2019t have to keep playing, but I still think he has a lot left in the tank to where he\u2019s very impactful. Especially to a team like Cleveland with the pieces they already have.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\/cavaliers-news-jr-smith-speculates-that-lebron-james-returns-to-cleveland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clutch Points;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Clutch Points<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland recently reshaped its roster by acquiring James Harden from the Los Angeles Clippers and adding Dennis Schroder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[52468,852,6423,6418,27127,11952,355,6404,99],"class_list":["post-451057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-james-harden","tag-keon-ellis","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}