{"id":470988,"date":"2023-11-26T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470988"},"modified":"2023-11-26T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:42:25","slug":"lebron-on-playing-for-cleveland-its-just-special","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-on-playing-for-cleveland-its-just-special\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron on playing for Cleveland: \u2018It&#8217;s just special\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The venue\u2019s name might be different, the visiting team&#8217;s locker room might have been down the hall, and the signature headband is no longer part of his styling, but LeBron James was on the court in Cleveland and triumphing.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Lakers defeated the host <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/a><\/a> 121-115 and now hold a record of 10 victories and 7 defeats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWhen I was drafted I wanted to light this place up like Vegas. I feel like I did a decent job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James on the impact he\u2019s had on Cleveland \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBA<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Anz86yGANB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Anz86yGANB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1728634032907293049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LeBron finished with 22 points as he notched only a single 3-pointer from 9 tries, but James showed up in the crunch time to secure his organization\u2019s victory with 2 scores in a row under 2 minutes to go in the final quarter as Lakers lead became from a single point to 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Played 11 seasons here and being able to return after my Heat stint and win a championship here for this organization, for this city, I think it was a 52-year championship drought or something like that in the city of Cleveland for any sports franchise, That will stay with me forever no matter how old I get,&#8221; LeBron claimed. &#8220;I&#8217;ll always cherish the time that I spent here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venue\u2019s name might be different, the visiting team&#8217;s locker room might have been down the hall, and the signature headband is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":470990,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"James spoke about his days at the Cavaliers during his team\u2019s visit.","video":["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\/470988"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470992,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470988\/revisions\/470992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470988"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470988"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}