The NBA’s all-time leading scorer has officially made his decision.
And it’s not the Miami Heat.
James, a four-time champion and a free agent for the first time since 2018, has decided to sign a two-year, $8 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania first reported Friday.
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I was always worried about Philly. In retrospect, the trust the process comment was telling. And it’s also not surprising he went there as they have a good chance even with Embiid’s limitations.
For us, there needs to be some response, some acquisition that helps strengthen our chances. This is why waiting on a player when there are other moves to be made can be detrimental. Let’s hope we get some good news now soon as we have some roster spots that need filling.
Time to move on and pick up the pieces.
Will Cavs fans burn his jersey in effigy again? lol
lol
i expect a flurry of signings in nba now and we have greek and the city of miami great destination it wasnt before we landed greek
Good luck with the golf game !
Gonna be to busy eating LeCheeseSteaks.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Miami can use another big, another shooter and another playmaker. It will be interesting to see which players ultimately sign with the Heat. I’m sure Riley has prepared for this situation.
It would be great if he could turn Wiggins and Jovic into Irving, sign DeRozan and Beal or Westbrook and add a big. I see at least 3 of the following players: Larsson, Conwell, Jovic, Fontecchio and Mitchell having very good years.
The Sixers starting unit doesn’t seem to need another ball handler. Is the plan for LeBron to come in off the bench? Will he be expected to play center when Embiid is out injured?
Sixers offense should be great. The defense, not so much, especially when Embiid is out. I see them trading one of their young backcourt studs for a proven big to help carry the frontcourt load.
P.S. I wonder who made a ton of money betting he would select Philly and if it was based on “inside” information? Hmm?
if u ck back few weeks ago i picked phily.dont like wig deal 30 mil to much jovic untradeable except maybe to denver.got some work to do u and pat lets go
You also said GS about 50 times.
lol thank you. That was his final pick.
Ok, now fill the holes.
Another big and playmaker?
KO, Gabe, Yasubele, Richards, Love, Eubanks, Tillman, Kawamura still available.
From the list, Yasubele and Gabe for me.
gabe stop
Yasubele signed a big deal with some foreign club. So I don’t think we getting him.
we got greek portis resigned wig.lot to be happy about.b/c needs some work
Let’s get a list of shooters going.
Well that’s a big shocker that I wasn’t expecting, Ig he doesn’t want that ball in his hands, and when embiid gets hurt he will play center. Trusting the process will result in failure, well now we can move on.
Regardless…Bob Myers can’t control the brittle knees of Embid which would hold the balance of the Sixer’s hope to make a real championship run.
Each time in the 2nd round Embiid is already toast. If he can somehow make it, then yeah they will have a great chance to win it all.
Ok, its done. I m not unhappy about that, he would be a distraction more then everything else, and an additional pressure to win it all immediately. We are not ready for that with or without LBJ:
Now that pressure is on Philly. The tanking curse in Philly is still on.
Phantom of the Process.
Exactly.
Forgot…another ball for Brown! 4 ball rule change.
He was the best option for Miami. Now time to pivot to some less desirable options. On the bright side Pelle didn’t just lose all his minutes and can continue to develop.
who else goes to phily now ring chaser destination
NBA will need to change rules allowing teams to use 3 basketballs for Embid, Maxey, then rest of team. Thought LeBron was smarter than that.
This one surprised me…..so where does golf, where does family, where does warm weather play into the Philly decision?
Now that the distraction is gone, can we talk about landing DeRozan or Beal, or have they been pissed off by the Heat for being considered 2nd fiddles?
should have just gone after dd told him your as good as 42 year old lebron.we’d rather have u
They’ll land one of the two. Giannis is still here.
i think the riley factor swayed goats decision to go elsewhere.greek bam wiggy dav bron dam
I think the leak from Miami social media team messed it up.
my opinion was from day 1 his bf wade wasnt here anymore and hes prob little mad at riley.believe we had no chance for goat.hope we land derozan
Maybe, but I’ll take derozan or beal, and nick Richards too.
all 3 puts us in competition with nyk and phily.derozan would be #1 option .havent seen beal in a while but hes not explosive anymore not so high on him,dd moves the needle beal really doesnt
Yea, but Beal will be able to space the floor more, but I feel you. How u feeling about lavine or D’Angelo Russell, who might get bought out?
Embiid is always hurt and doesn’t come through when it matters. He hasn’t played more than 39 games since the 2022-23 season. How is he going to share the ball with Maxey and Brown? That team can’t win a championship even with LeBron. Letting LeBron make his own decision was really dumb. Rich Paul should have saved him from himself.
That was a curveball. Oh well. Now we can see who we can sign.
max meyers got a good one
I feel like if he was coming here, that YouTube leak might have swayed him not to come here. Still don’t think he put us over the top and I don’t think he does so in Philly either… guess we will see 🤷🏻♂️
if butler was healthy think he would have gone to gsw
knew he wasnt coming here harden scared him away from cleve.gsw not champ level.phily makes sense great roster tight with maxey.ok lets get derozan now
Lol
That’s just it…
Lol