{"id":780735,"date":"2026-07-23T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:11:09","slug":"nba-writer-cavs-are-running-their-core-back-with-or-without-lebron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780735\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA writer: Cavs are \u2018running their core back\u2019 with or without LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Brett Siegel of Clutch Points says the Cavs won\u2019t be making any major additions to the roster to entice LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kevin O\u2019Connor of Yahoo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2026\/07\/22\/kyrie-anthony-davis-play-lebron-decision\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2026\/07\/22\/kyrie-anthony-davis-play-lebron-decision\/\">had reported that James\u2019 decision was being held up<\/a> because James wanted to see if any suitors could trade for Anthony Davis and\/or Kyrie Irving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Siegel also said the Cavs have 2 contracts prepared for free agent James Harden&#8212;one if they sign LeBron, one if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Siegel made the remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jESQSX83CA0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jESQSX83CA0\">on his \u201cClutch Scoops\u201d podcast<\/a> with Tomer Azarly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland, Miami and Philadelphia are considered the favorites to get James, who became an unrestricted free agent July 6.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Brett Siegel of Clutch Points says the Cavs won\u2019t be making any major additions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-780735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780735","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=780735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}