{"id":841839,"date":"2026-09-23T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/841839\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:18:32","slug":"lebron-james-goes-viral-for-brutal-brick-fest-in-pickup-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/841839\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James goes viral for brutal brick-fest in pickup game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lakers fans might not feel so bad about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/17\/sports\/lebron-james-didnt-leave-lakers-for-pennies-on-dollar-after-all-with-15m-windfall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing LeBron James in free agency <\/a>after seeing his most recent basketball footage.<\/p>\n<p>A video of LeBron playing pickup basketball alongside several other NBA standouts was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R9XlOgwr1-U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">posted on YouTube<\/a> on Monday night. A clip of LeBron bricking several shots from that YouTube video has since gone viral on social media. <\/p>\n<p>The clip shows LeBron hitting the side of the backboard with a baseline fadeaway shot, missing several 3-pointers and missing numerous other jump shots.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James (23) of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts on the court during the second half at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Corey Sipkin for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James taking a shot during an open run against other NBA players. (YouTube\/@ChrisJohnsonHoops).<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the clip that is circulating on social media is an edited collage of James\u2019 misses. The full YouTube video is an hour long and shows several impressive plays from King James that were all left out of the minute-long cut of his missed shots. <\/p>\n<p>But that fact isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/19\/sports\/mike-tomlins-son-calls-lebron-james-liar-in-unhinged-rant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stopping social media from trolling James <\/a>about his open-run bricks.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James, owner of Team AlUla, looks on during the E1 Series Luanda GP in Luanda, Angola, Sept. 13, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/17\/sports\/steph-curry-dishes-cold-hard-truth-on-lebron-james-free-agency-path\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James joined the 76ers in free agency<\/a> this summer after spending the past eight seasons with the Lakers. He told Los Angeles that he had no intention of returning to the franchise, which sparked a nearly monthlong storyline of where LeBron might land.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers are among the favorites to win an NBA championship after signing James. But this video clip might make fans rethink their belief in James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers fans might not feel so bad about losing LeBron James in free agency after seeing his most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,160,185,150,6,671,207,66],"class_list":["post-841839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-california","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117319847318317038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841839","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=841839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}