{"id":614161,"date":"2026-04-29T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:30:13","slug":"lebron-james-reveals-secret-friendship-with-hollywood-a-lister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614161\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James reveals secret friendship with Hollywood A-lister"},"content":{"rendered":"

LeBron James has been known to hobnob with A-listers<\/a>, but he recently revealed he has a good relationship with one in particular.<\/p>\n

Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n

The Lakers superstar told ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin during a wide-ranging interview<\/a> that he and the \u201cTitanic\u201d actor are actually buds.<\/p>\n

\"LeonardoLeonardo DiCaprio has been seen at Lakers games cheering on LeBron James for years. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI got dinner with Leo at Avra in Beverly Hills, and he told us about \u2018Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\u2019 before he started filming it,\u201d James said. \u201cThat was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

James told McMenamin he wasn\u2019t sure how their relationship started, though he guessed it was through his business partner, Maverick Carter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The friendship, of course, shouldn\u2019t be all that surprising, as Dicaprio has been seen cheering on James at Crypto.com Arena dating all the way back to when the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer<\/a> first signed with the Lakers before the start of the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n

James also revealed that his DiCaprio kinship helped lead him to another one with Al Pacino.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just showed up [to Avra] and Leo was there,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd then Al Pacino showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

James, a huge \u201cThe Godfather\u201d fan, picked Pacino\u2019s brain about the mob classic and acting throughout their meal, and said it was all a surreal moment for him.<\/p>\n

\"LeBronLeBron James recently revealed he has a good friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio. Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201c[Pacino] is one of the greatest actors of all time,\u201d James said. \u201cBoth of them, him and Leo. And Michael Corleone is one of my favorite characters of all time, in movie history. So to be able to have that moment, it was another, \u2018I\u2019m from Akron, Ohio,\u2019 moment. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike, I\u2019m from Akron, Ohio, how am I in a room with two of the greatest that have ever been on a movie screen?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dicaprio hasn\u2019t been spotted at a Lakers game since January, but with James and the rest of Los Angeles\u2019 roster having the chance to close out the Rockets later Wednesday<\/a>, perhaps a reunion goes down in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James has been known to hobnob with A-listers, but he recently revealed he has a good relationship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2356,236,88,3013,1055,99,1625],"class_list":["post-614161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-california","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614161","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=614161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}