{"id":439875,"date":"2023-07-16T03:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T07:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439875"},"modified":"2023-07-16T04:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:19:46","slug":"lebron-james-returns-to-number-23","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-returns-to-number-23\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James returns to number 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will be starting his 21st season in NBA and not only that, but, he\u2019s coming back in his original jersey number.<\/p>\n<p>James will return to No. 23 next season, a move the Los Angeles Lakers revealed Saturday by tweeting a picture of his back with James\u2019 name and number showing on the gold jersey.<\/p>\n<p>James has been constantly alternating between No. 23 and No. 6 after wearing 23 in his rookie campaign in 2003 with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was in No. 6 while becoming the NBA\u2019s career scoring leader last season, a number now retired by the league following the death of Boston Celtics Hall of Famer Bill Russell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LeBron James will change his uniform from No. 6 to No. 23 next season \u201cout of respect for Bill Russell,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mcten<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l4RuEy2R7R\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l4RuEy2R7R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1680380212150673408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will be starting his 21st season in NBA and not only that, but, he\u2019s coming back in his original jersey number. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":92144,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645],"acf":{"announce":"He wore the number 6 for a season, but will wear his legendary kit next year","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439875"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439875"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}