{"id":790363,"date":"2026-07-19T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/790363\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:48:15","slug":"76ers-putting-on-full-court-press-to-recruit-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/790363\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers putting on full-court press to recruit LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philadelphia 76ers have sent all hands on deck to try to reel in big fish LeBron James<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-athlete=\"20000571\" data-name=\"LeBron James\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"LeBron James\"><\/a> in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James was at Fanatics Fest in New York City earlier this week, which <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/lebron-james-laughed-off-tyrese-haliburton-recruiting-pitch\/762275\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">provided some players and teams an opportunity<\/a> to put on their recruiter hats. The Sixers did not waste that chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to NBC reporter John Clark, 76ers owner Josh Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/johnclarknbc\/p\/Da8PwQZgSeL\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">had a \u201cbrief, friendly conversation\u201d<\/a> with James during Saturday\u2019s event. Clark added that Tyrese Maxey<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-athlete=\"20002546\" data-name=\"Tyrese Maxey\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Tyrese Maxey\"><\/a>, Jaylen Brown<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-athlete=\"20001672\" data-name=\"Jaylen Brown\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Jaylen Brown\"><\/a>, and Joel Embiid<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-athlete=\"20000726\" data-name=\"Joel Embiid\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Joel Embiid\"><\/a> have all shown LeBron some brotherly love to get him into a Sixers jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris got the opportunity that most team owners and executives would have begged for, as James\u2019 camp refused to hear pitches from any of his free agency suitors. It probably helped that former Sixers minority owner Michael Rubin owns Fanatics. Even local politicians have <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/lebron-james-pennsylvania-governor-recruited\/762410\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gotten on the recruiting trail to help Philly\u2019s chances<\/a> at landing James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">76ers fans have started to daydream about James catching lobs from Maxey more and more this week. The 4-time MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/lebron-james-lakers-76ers-hint\/762245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropped an interesting comment on Friday<\/a> that had some thinking it was a hint that a move to Philadelphia was coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A starting lineup of Maxey, Brown, Embiid, James, and second-year stud VJ Edgecombe<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-athlete=\"20003447\" data-name=\"VJ Edgecombe\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"VJ Edgecombe\"><\/a> would arguably be the best unit in the Eastern Conference next season. With James looking for his last chance to get another Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy in hand, moving conferences to create an All-Star lineup in Philly does not sound like a bad way to end his career.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers have sent all hands on deck to try to reel in big fish LeBron James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,7470,185,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":["post-790363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-josh-harris","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116945309136586095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790363","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=790363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}