Mike Breen apologized after LeBron James denied a story claiming he had called out Joel Embiid for being late to practice.
The longtime broadcaster said his intention was to highlight LeBron\u2019s leadership, not to portray Embiid negatively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m so disappointed how the story was interpreted,\u201d Breen told ESPN<\/strong>. During Sixers-Knicks, he said he had been told Embiid came onto the floor a couple of minutes late and that LeBron \u201clet him hear it.\u201d James later responded on Instagram: \u201cHe ain\u2019t been late so stop the lies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Breen then backed away from the story: \u201cIf LeBron says it never happened then I believe him and apologize for putting it out there.\u201d Nick Nurse also defended Embiid, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s been excellent. He\u2019s in great shape, he\u2019s been on the practice floor, he\u2019s worked very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mike Breen apologized after LeBron James denied a story claiming Joel Embiid had been late to a Sixers practice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371864,"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-548332","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\/2024\/02\/Philadelphia-76ers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548332","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=548332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548333,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548332\/revisions\/548333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548332"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548332"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548332"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}