{"id":786489,"date":"2026-07-27T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786489\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:02:08","slug":"now-weve-got-a-pretty-interesting-roster-said-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786489\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNow, we\u2019ve got a pretty interesting roster,\u201d said a \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to at least three sources, everything changed in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philadelphia&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> when first-year president of basketball operations Mike Gansey pulled off the bombshell acquisition of Brown, the 2024 NBA Finals MVP, from the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/boston\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Boston Celtics&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> for <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4725\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paul George;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Paul George&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul George<\/a> and four future picks \u2014 two firsts and two seconds \u2014 on July 1, after James had already announced his decision to leave the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/la-lakers\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lakers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lakers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a>. Before that trade, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;76ers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">76ers<\/a>, internally, considered themselves longshots for James. Afterward, though, they were all in. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7469211\/2026\/07\/25\/lebron-james-decision-explanation-76ers-warriors-heat-timberwolves\/?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.z9tg.VPOKA4HMlio4&amp;source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cNow, we\u2019ve got a pretty interesting roster,\u201d said a team source with knowledge of the franchise\u2019s pursuit of James, who was speaking after the Brown trade but before James picked Philadelphia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cNow, we\u2019ve got a pretty interesting roster,\u201d said a team source with knowledge of the franchise\u2019s pursuit of James, who was speaking after the Brown trade but before James picked Philadelphia&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cNow, we\u2019ve got a pretty interesting roster,\u201d said a team source with knowledge of the franchise\u2019s pursuit of James, who was speaking after the Brown trade but before James picked Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7469211\/2026\/07\/25\/lebron-james-decision-explanation-76ers-warriors-heat-timberwolves\/?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.z9tg.VPOKA4HMlio4&amp;source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to at least three sources, everything changed in Philadelphia when first-year president of basketball operations Mike Gansey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[66348,2242,6306,290523,355,15805,60519,2085,99],"class_list":["post-786489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-boston-celtics","tag-lakers","tag-mike-gansey","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals-mvp","tag-paul-george","tag-philadelphia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786489","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=786489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}