{"id":778583,"date":"2026-07-22T21:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/778583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:08:11","slug":"warriors-remain-pessimistic-about-their-chances-of-signing-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/778583\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors remain pessimistic about their chances of signing LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myles Turner<\/a> on LeBron James: \u2018For someone like himself, Cleveland makes sense. You go out, playing for your hometown team, won a championship for that team. I think it’s good for the league personally if he makes that move. My sleeper choice would be the Sixers, just because that’s going to get the most hype if you will, where he kind of does have a chance to go out there and be competitive. But my pick is Cleveland. We’ll see where we’re at.\u2019<\/a> \u2014 7\/22\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

With fellow star Anthony Davis extension-eligible August 6th, the Wizards plan to have extension talks with the 33-year-old, 10-time All-Star forward,<\/a> league sources told HoopsHype. The Golden State Warriors<\/a> have expressed trade interest in Davis. Yet, Washington has rebuffed such inquiries to this point, putting a major wrench in Golden State\u2019s dream scenario of pairing Davis with free agent target LeBron James in the Bay Area. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 HoopsHype<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracy McGrady: I only have two teams that he could go to. Vince Carter: The Cavs, I feel like and then, you know, probably Golden State. McGrady: Go back home. And those are those are my two teams. Go back home to the Cavs. Golden State to me, when I looked at Steve Kerr, who was on his way out, was about to retire. Carter: We talked about he did it for some some reason. There’s something brewing. There’s something brewing<\/a>. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Jaylen Clark<\/a>: The another thing that we have is called an NBA licensing check. So, every time you guys play 2K, buy cards for like from Fanatics. We have a a new clothing brand for the NBPA that’s coming out called Players United. Anytime you guys spend money with any people that are sponsored with the NBA, we get paid for that. So, this year the licensing check this year was $385,000. That’s just for like I said 2K spending money with on cards, jerseys, like everything.<\/a> So instead of like basically what the license what it does is instead of like LeBron James just making $30 million, all the players have came together and said we’re going to include everybody. So everybody gets an equal share. No matter if you’re the top dog on your team or you’re the bottom dog, we all get the same amount of licensing checks. So that’s also a big plus. (\u2026) You have to play 21 or be active for 21 games. If you’re not active for 21 games, you do not receive a licensing check. So for example, my first year in the NBA, I did not receive the licensing. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

As sources described to the California Post, multiple teams \u2014 and players \u2014 throughout the league are in a holding pattern until James makes his decision.<\/a> It\u2019s why James Harden<\/a> remains an unrestricted free agent after declining his $42.3 million player option with the Cavaliers over three weeks ago with the expectation he\u2019d re-sign with Cleveland on a new deal. It\u2019s why Draymond Green<\/a> remains an unrestricted free agent after declining his $27.7 million player option with the Warriors, with the expectation he\u2019d re-sign with Golden State on a new deal. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n

When one user noticed a video titled \u201cLeBron James Introductory Press Conference | July 27, 2026\u201d posted by the Heat\u2019s YouTube account, the link to that thumbnail spread on X. The conspiracies of the Heat mistakenly leaking James\u2019 decision to return to Miami<\/a> also picked up steam, and the Heat simultaneously skyrocketed on the Polymarket and Kalshi prediction market platforms as James\u2019 next team. But according to a Heat spokesperson, the \u201cLeBron James Introductory Press Conference | July 27, 2026\u201d video was mistakenly made public by the Heat\u2019s social media department while preparing for the possibility of James eventually deciding to join the Heat this offseason.<\/a> The Heat spokesperson said there is currently no validity to the video. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n

NBA commissioner Adam Silver may regret calling out LeBron James to decide where he will play next season. Four-time NBA champion Draymond Green said that Silver urging James to make a decision soon might only make him take longer to announce it. \u201cAdam saying that is not going to speed up LeBron\u2019s decision at all,\u201d Green said on the \u201cDraymond Green Show.\u201d<\/a> \u201cIf I know Bron well, if anything, it may slow his decision down a little more because that\u2019s just how Bron is. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Shaquille O’Neal on LeBron James: Knowing LeBron is going to go somewhere where he can win another ring. Miami, Golden State, maybe even Philly. What we realized towards the end of our career is once we’re done, we can never play again.<\/a> So, you never wanna you never want to retire and say, “I should have did this. I should have did that.” He still has two three years left, I think. So, kudos to him for trying to align himself with the team where he can win another championship. That’s what it’s all about. A lot of these haters call it ring chasing, but yeah, you’re supposed to be chasing rings because if you chase rings and you accomplish getting rings, that’s what we call greatness. Those who haven’t achieved greatness call it ring chasing because they haven’t achieved greatness. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Shaquille O\u2019Neal on LeBron James: I wouldn’t mind seeing him go back home to Cleveland and starting in Cleveland, ended in Cleveland, especially if they win.<\/a> That’ll be a that’ll be a historical way to close the chapter of your career. But I wish him well. Every team he’s he goes to, I know it’s going to be exciting. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Jake Fischer: \u2018A lot of people in the league keep mentioning that they believe there is a clunky fit between LeBron James and James Harden. I don\u2019t necessarily see that,<\/a> because Harden once upon a time was someone that LeBron communicated to the Lakers<\/a>, when he was a free agent\u2026 it was when he was a free agent with the Clippers<\/a> or Sixers, but there was a point in time when LeBron communicated to the Lakers that he was willing to take a pay cut if they sign Harden, Klay Thompson<\/a> or Jonas Valanciunas.\u2019 \u2014 7\/22\/2026 Bleacher Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myles Turner on LeBron James: \u2018For someone like himself, Cleveland makes sense. You go out, playing for your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[66348,5554,6250,852,7630,13339,1318,5967,8304,6418,80986,9954,6306,43361,2821,6401,355,99,36059,4202,99867,9280],"class_list":["post-778583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-anthony-davis","tag-cavs","tag-cleveland","tag-clippers","tag-draymond-green","tag-free-agent","tag-heat","tag-james","tag-james-harden","tag-jaylen-clark","tag-klay-thompson","tag-lakers","tag-lebron","tag-miami","tag-myles-turner","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-vince-carter","tag-warriors","tag-wizards","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778583","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=778583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}