{"id":797967,"date":"2026-08-01T19:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/797967\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:52:28","slug":"kcp-reacts-to-joining-lebron-embiid-jaylen-brown-and-76ers-in-new-video-after-grizzlies-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/797967\/","title":{"rendered":"KCP Reacts to Joining LeBron, Embiid, Jaylen Brown and 76ers in New Video After Grizzlies Buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who will sign a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49449509\/sources-caldwell-pope-join-76ers-grizzlies-buyout\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">one-year deal<\/a> with the Philadelphia 76ers after agreeing to a buyout with the Memphis Grizzlies, spoke on his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=59MgQa6byqM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dawg Talk Podcast<\/a> about reuniting with ex-Los Angeles Lakers teammate LeBron James and the importance of &#8220;playing meaningful basketball&#8221; again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Caldwell-Pope played four seasons for the Lakers (three with James), and the two won an NBA title together to cap the 2019-20 campaign. Three seasons later, KCP won his second NBA championship as a key member of the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The 33-year-old didn&#8217;t enjoy that same team success last year, as the 25-57 Grizzlies struggled to a 13th-place finish in the 15-team Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Caldwell-Pope is understandably happy at the prospect of competing for a championship again. The 76ers went to the second round of the playoffs last year and got better on paper by trading for Jaylen Brown and signing James to a team that has guards Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe and center Joel Embiid already aboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">KCP should help the team remain a strong playoff contender off the bench. He is a solid\u00a03-and-D\u00a0wing who averaged 8.4 points, 2.7 assists, 2.5 rebounds in 21.3 minutes per game last season. He&#8217;ll be one of the top reserves alongside should Anfernee Simons and Dean Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who will sign a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers after agreeing to a buyout with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-797967","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\/797967","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=797967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}