{"id":515390,"date":"2026-07-24T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=515390"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:40:57","slug":"lebron-james-picks-76ers-will-ink-2-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-picks-76ers-will-ink-2-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James picks 76ers, will ink 2-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is inking with the Philadelphia 76ers on a 2-year, 8 million contract with a player option, his agent announced today.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron spoke about his future on social media recently, revealing that he thought he was done playing after the past campaign before choosing otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t lie when I said during my last press conference that I need to look at myself and decide If I still love basketball. I still truly love to be on the court, and I know I can give more to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By choosing Philadelphia, the NBA superstar commits to a 4<sup>th<\/sup> organization in the league as he searches for a 5<sup>th<\/sup> championship.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron will try to break a 43-year championship drought for Philly, as he did in the past with the Cavs, after ending a 52-year streak without a championship for Cleveland when he triumphed 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This is most likely the final free agency decision LeBron will ever make as he will begin a record-breaking 24<sup>th<\/sup> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eWithout a doubt, this is my final decision. I\u2019m not going to Philly for the salary or for my family, I really believe that we can win the championship,\u201d added James.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: LEBRON JAMES IS JOINING THE 76ERS, PER <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@ShamsCharania<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>BRON. MAXEY. BROWN. EMBIID.<\/p>\n<p>WOW \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OYHr8elvYp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OYHr8elvYp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2080677773417320834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is inking with the Philadelphia 76ers on a 2-year, 8 million contract with a player option, his agent announced today. LeBron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16840],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[17644,17913],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The superstar shocked with his decision where to continue his career.","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\/515390"}],"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=515390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515391,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515390\/revisions\/515391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515390"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=515390"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=515390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}