{"id":506164,"date":"2026-07-17T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=506164"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:45:51","slug":"lebron-james-not-ready-to-reveal-next-team-its-going-to-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-not-ready-to-reveal-next-team-its-going-to-be-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James not ready to reveal next team: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be fun\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is still not ready to reveal his next team. During a live taping of the \u201cMind the Game\u201d podcast at Fanatics Fest in New York, the NBA star avoided making an announcement despite questions from Tyrese Haliburton and the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Later at the CNBC and Boardroom Game Plan Summit, James suggested that his decision is getting closer: \u201cI won\u2019t hold you guys up too much longer.\u201d According to ESPN, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers and Golden State Warriors remain among the teams pursuing him.<\/p>\n<p>James also thanked the Lakers after eight seasons, mentioning Jeanie Buss, Rob Pelinka, his coaches and teammates. \u201cWherever I land, I\u2019m going to do what I do best,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be pretty fun. It\u2019s going to be pretty fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA star spoke in New York without announcing his decision after leaving the Lakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29-alle-08.20.39.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506164"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=506164"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=506164"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=506164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}