{"id":715751,"date":"2026-04-22T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715751\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:42:39","slug":"iman-shumpert-says-lebron-playing-final-season-with-cavs-would-be-coolest-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715751\/","title":{"rendered":"Iman Shumpert Says LeBron Playing Final Season With Cavs Would Be ‘Coolest Story’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The NBA world is in the dark about LeBron James<\/a>‘ future … but if the King were to return to Cleveland for a final season, his old teammate tells TMZ Sports it would be “the coolest story.”<\/p>\n

We caught up with Cavs champ Iman Shumpert<\/a> at LAX this week … and asked if he wants to see the kid from Akron go home (again) before retiring.<\/p>\n

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Shump said James has obviously earned the right to decide for himself … but admitted the opportunity to bring things full circle to end his career is pretty enticing to him.<\/p>\n

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James’ return worked out well the first time around — he ended up raising a championship banner and ending the city’s 52-year title drought.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of their old team, we asked Shump if that iconic Cavs squad plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their 3-1 comeback on the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals — and he said whatever the group decides, he’s there.<\/p>\n

Kevin Love<\/a> previously told us he’d like to do something with the guys to honor the ann’y … so here’s hoping they get to planning!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iman Shumpert LeBron Retiring In Cleveland Would Be ‘Coolest Story’ Published April 22, 2026 12:30 AM PDT Play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6,67,66,83,2228],"class_list":{"0":"post-715751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-news","17":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116447711180288866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}