{"id":842257,"date":"2026-09-23T22:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/842257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:21:20","slug":"im-not-going-to-say-i-knew-and-just-didnt-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/842257\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not going to say I knew and just didn&#8217;t tell \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomer Azarly: Everyone was on &#8216;LeBron Watch&#8217; this summer. What role did you play in recruiting him? VJ Edgecombe said at one point that you may have known but weren&#8217;t telling anyone. Is that true? What role did you play in getting LeBron to Philly? Tyrese Maxey: <a data-ylk=\"slk:I&#039;m not going to say I knew and just didn&#039;t tell anyone, but I had multiple conversations with LeBron. Again, I work out with LeBron early in the morning, and that&#039;s just off of being cool with him. It&#039;s funny, he&#039;s like a big brother, like an OG to me, and for us to be teammates, it was funny because a kid asked me the other day, he looked at me and said, &#039;are you and LeBron friends?&#039; I thought about it. I leaned back and I said, &#039;you know, I guess we are friends.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;I&#039;m not going to say I knew and just didn&#039;t tell anyone, but I had multiple conversations with LeBron. Again, I work out with LeBron early in the morning, and that&#039;s just off of being cool with him. It&#039;s funny, he&#039;s like a big brother, like an OG to me, and for us to be teammates, it was funny because a kid asked me the other day, he looked at me and said, &#039;are you and LeBron friends?&#039; I thought about it. I leaned back and I said, &#039;you know, I guess we are friends.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/76ers-exclusive-tyrese-maxey-on-new-balance-maxey-v1s-lebron-james-sixers-title-hopes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m not going to say I knew and just didn&#8217;t tell anyone, but I had multiple conversations with LeBron. Again, I work out with LeBron early in the morning, and that&#8217;s just off of being cool with him. It&#8217;s funny, he&#8217;s like a big brother, like an OG to me, and for us to be teammates, it was funny because a kid asked me the other day, he looked at me and said, &#8216;are you and LeBron friends?&#8217; I thought about it. I leaned back and I said, &#8216;you know, I guess we are friends.<\/a> He&#8217;s the old, old, old guy, but he&#8217;s like one of my old friends.&#8217; It&#8217;s funny because we are teammates now, co-workers, but it&#8217;s kind of like a big brother situation. It&#8217;s going to be very cool and interesting dynamic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomer Azarly: Everyone was on &#8216;LeBron Watch&#8217; this summer. What role did you play in recruiting him? VJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817,1263],"class_list":["post-842257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-tyrese-maxey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117322690296326325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842257","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=842257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}