{"id":787929,"date":"2026-07-16T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/787929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:24:16","slug":"kevin-durant-expects-lebron-james-to-sign-with-cavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/787929\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant expects LeBron James to sign with Cavs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like everybody else, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4244\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kevin Durant;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;Kevin Durant&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> is fully mindful of the ongoing buzz and development surrounding <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3704\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:LeBron James;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;LeBron James&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a>&#8216; free agency. And if he has to choose which is the best stop possible for his longtime rival and contemporary, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;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;Houston Rockets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a> superstar only has two teams in mind. &#8220;That&#8217;s the million-dollar question, I wish I knew,&#8221; Durant said when asked which he thinks LeBron will join in a brief video interview from theScore. <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-252097-kevin-durant-names-lebron-james-next-nba-team-discusses-playing-together.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;In my heart of hearts, if I had to choose one, I would say Cleveland,&quot; Durant argued. &quot;But Philly got a big chance, too.&quot;;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;&amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">&#8220;In my heart of hearts, if I had to choose one, I would say Cleveland,&#8221; Durant argued. &#8220;But Philly got a big chance, too.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-252097-kevin-durant-names-lebron-james-next-nba-team-discusses-playing-together.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BasketNews;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;BasketNews&quot;}\" class=\"link \">BasketNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like everybody else, Kevin Durant is fully mindful of the ongoing buzz and development surrounding LeBron James&#8216; free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,305,896,292,194,4066,938,185,95460,6,211],"class_list":["post-787929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland","tag-free-agency","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houstonrockets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-lebron-james","tag-longtime-rival","tag-nba","tag-rockets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116928699661460495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787929","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=787929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}