{"id":795194,"date":"2026-07-25T03:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/795194\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:48:17","slug":"lebron-james-hoping-to-bring-some-title-magic-to-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/795194\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James hoping to bring some title magic to Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">LeBron James will play for the Philadelphia 76ers next season, with the 41-year-old NBA superstar hoping to transform another franchise into a championship team.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The NBA all-time scoring leader and a four-time NBA MVP, James has won four titles in a 23-year career, most recently with the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But \u201cKing James\u201d announced on June 30 that he would depart the Lakers as a free agent, sparking a frenzy of speculation as to his next team.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energise a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time,\u201d James posted on X.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">James sparked the Miami Heat to NBA crowns in 2013 and 2014, brought his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers a title in 2016, and delivered a championship for the Lakers in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LeBron James chose the Sixers over more predictable picks, like the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat. Photo: TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/53f0b281-b991-4d47-b0fb-4e888daf49ae_8842e835.jpg\" title=\"LeBron James chose the Sixers over more predictable picks, like the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat. Photo: TNS\"\/>LeBron James chose the Sixers over more predictable picks, like the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat. Photo: TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He\u2019s looking to become the first player to win a title with four different clubs by making the same magic happen in what Rich Paul, James\u2019s agent, told ESPN was a two-year deal worth US$8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James will play for the Philadelphia 76ers next season, with the 41-year-old NBA superstar hoping to transform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[2214,7,45,306,305,193,3846,130,479,78,936,24740,17866,185,150,189,6,1136,207],"class_list":["post-795194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-adam-silver","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-espn","tag-golden-state","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-joel-embiid","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-julius-erving","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116978575188196174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795194","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=795194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}