{"id":845375,"date":"2026-09-27T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/845375\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:36:17","slug":"cavaliers-koby-altman-gives-thoughts-on-lebron-james-joining-sixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/845375\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers&#8217; Koby Altman gives thoughts on LeBron James joining Sixers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 27, 2026, 1:48 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The decision of LeBron James to join the <a data-autotag=\"b3f2a355-8d98-44c0-a603-3f9a2d8bc375\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> in free agency rocked the NBA. As the future Hall of Famer heads into his 24th season in the league, many believed that he would make a return to the Cleveland Cavaliers to author a storybook ending to his career. Some argued a return to the <a data-autotag=\"2fc7081f-f0b3-4b1d-b589-781c9028a4e7\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Miami Heat<\/a>. James joining the Sixers felt like it came out of left field&#8211;which he <a href=\"http:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2026\/09\/25\/lebron-james-opens-up-explains-why-he-chose-sixers-in-free-agency\/91935531007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explained his decision<\/a> while on &#8220;Mind the Game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Many were expecting James to head back to the Cavaliers, but instead decided to join the Sixers. However, it&#8217;s not like the Cavs are in a bad position. After making a run to the Eastern Conference finals, Cleveland brings back a talented core of James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, and Jarrett Allen. Therefore, when Cleveland President of Basketball Operations Koby Altman was asked about the James decision, he isn&#8217;t too worried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fnba%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F50029817%2Faltman-cavs-built-sustainable-run-missing-lebron&amp;xcust=SC1-SSIX&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fsixerswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnba%2Fsixers%2F2026%2F09%2F27%2Fcavaliers-koby-altman-gives-thoughts-on-lebron-james-joining-sixers%2F91960929007%2F\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\"\u2691f:b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per ESPN<\/a>, Altman stated:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t be reliant on one outcome. I think we have too much of a good thing going in terms of our infrastructure, our foundation to worry about one outcome,&#8221; Altman said at a news conference Friday before the Cavaliers begin training camp next week. &#8220;I&#8217;m not downplaying the enormity and magnitude of the decision. I just think the way we&#8217;re built as an organization is we have a great foundation and a great sort of ecosystem in terms of talent, coaching staff, our performance staff and we&#8217;re built for a sustainable run here regardless of one outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">James and the Sixers will host the Cavs in their home opener on Oct. 22 and will head to Cleveland on Nov. 6 to face the Cavs in the NBA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 27, 2026, 1:48 p.m. ET The decision of LeBron James to join the Philadelphia 76ers in free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[72400,7,306,305,193,3846,6,91010,72473,72474,72404,72860,72974,72976,72546,72442,72444,72422,72445,72475,72406,72403],"class_list":["post-845375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-nba","tag-sourcesixers-wire","tag-sstssportsnbasixers","tag-sstsnsixers","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-tagevan-mobley","tag-tagjarrett-allen","tag-taglebron-james","tag-tagmiami-heat","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagphiladelphia-76ers","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117344926676144214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845375","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=845375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}