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LeBron James has long been one of the most discussed athletes in modern sports, and any decision connected to his career quickly becomes a major headline.

When the phrase “LeBron James reveals why he chose the 76ers” enters the conversation, it immediately draws attention from basketball fans, analysts, and casual readers alike.

Philadelphia is a franchise with a rich basketball history, a passionate fan base, and a market that demands excellence, which makes any connection to LeBron especially compelling.
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00:00LeBron James just ended his career with the Lowe's Angels Lakers.
00:04He's signing with the Philadelphia 76ers instead.
00:07Choosing a fourth NBA team over homecoming offers from Cleveland and Miami.
00:12Now let's talk about why.
00:14Let's get right into it.
00:16LeBron James is done with the Lakers.
00:18After 8 seasons, 4 trips wearing purple and gold, and a championship, it's over.
00:23And he's not going quietly into retirement either.
00:26He's heading to Philadelphia.
00:28Here's how it went down.
00:29James' decision came after James' 8-year run.
00:32With the Lowe's Angels Lakers ended on June 30, when he informed the team he planned to
00:38pursue other options.
00:39Hours before the start of the official free agency period.
00:43That's the kind of exit that sends shockwaves through a league.
00:46No farewell tour, no highlight package, just a phone call and it was over.
00:51For weeks, nobody knew where he'd land.
00:53James was considering returns to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat in this free agency.
00:59With the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves in the hunt as well.
01:03Everybody assumed a homecoming.
01:06Cleveland gave him his first ring.
01:08Miami gave him two more.
01:09Those cities had his number.
01:11Instead, he picked Philly.
01:13And when Shams Charania broke the news, it landed like a thunderclap.
01:17After weeks of speculation, tying him to the Cavaliers, Heat, and Warriors.
01:21LeBron chose the Sixers, and the balance of power in the East may never look the same.
01:26The contract itself tells its own story.
01:29LeBron agreed to a two-year contract, worth roughly $8 million with a player option.
01:34Choosing Philadelphia over Cleveland, Miami, and a reported field of at least 10 interested
01:40teams.
01:41The deal begins near the veteran minimum, at just under $3.9 million this season.
01:46Compare that to what he just walked away from.
01:49A player who earned more than $52 million with the Lakers last season.
01:54Just took a massive pay cut to chase a title in Philadelphia.
01:57That's not a business decision.
01:59That's a man chasing something money can't buy him anymore.
02:03So why Philly?
02:04Why leave two cities that already love him?
02:06For a franchise that's never won it all with him.
02:09LeBron answered that himself, in his own words, posted straight to social media.
02:13He said he almost walked away from basketball entirely.
02:17I thought I was done when the season ended.
02:19I wasn't ready to announce it, and I knew I needed some time to really decide.
02:24But I was pretty sure I played my last game.
02:26I was honest at that last press conference, when I said I needed to look at myself, and
02:31decide if I still love this game.
02:33I still truly love this game, and I have more to give.
02:36That's not a man being traded.
02:38That's not a man being pushed out.
02:40That's LeBron James at 41 years old, standing at the edge of retirement.
02:45And choosing to keep playing on purpose, with his eyes open.
02:49In a city that isn't Lowe's Angels, isn't Cleveland, and isn't Miami.
02:53And here's where the Sixers' connection gets real.
02:56This wasn't some cold, out-of-nowhere pursuit.
02:59His future time mates had been working him for weeks.
03:02Embiid, Brown, and Maxie had all been in communication with James during his free agency saga.
03:07With Maxie leading the charge, according to ESPN's Dave McMenamin on July 14, the recruiting
03:14paid off just 10 days later.
03:16Once the deal was official, the reactions came fast.
03:19Jalen Brown, his new teammate, and someone who once publicly doubted LeBron's own son,
03:24as a pro prospect was first to post, simply writing, throw the ball up.
03:28Tyrese Maxie didn't even bother with words.
03:31He took a different approach, and decided to scream about the move on Instagram.
03:35And it wasn't just teammates, even the governor of Pennsylvania got involved.
03:40Josh Shapiro also chimed in, deeming it, LeBron James Day in the state.
03:44Vegas felt it too, within minutes of the announcement.
03:48Sportsbook scrambled to reprice the entire Eastern Conference.
03:52Following James' announcement, the 76ers moved from 20-1 to plus 900.
03:57To win the NBA Finals, and from plus 750 to plus 370.
04:02To win the Eastern Conference, at DraftKings Sportsbook.
04:06That's the headline, that's the shock.
04:08LeBron James, the greatest scorer the league has ever seen.
04:12Took a pay cut, skipped his hometown, skipped his championship city, and picked Philadelphia.
04:17Now we need to understand exactly how that happened, and why, out of everyone chasing him.
04:22It was the Sixers who got the yes.
04:24To understand why LeBron ended up in Philadelphia, you have to go back to that final, Lakers press conference.
04:30The one everybody replayed a hundred times, looking for hints.
04:34At the end of last season, LeBron stood in front of reporters, and didn't give the usual athlete non-answer.
04:40He admitted uncertainty out loud, and in his announcement post.
04:44He confirmed what a lot of people suspected at the time, that press conference wasn't just tired season talk.
04:50It was real doubt, a four-time NBA champion, James wrote he was done, when his 23rd NBA season ended.
04:57And that it was his last with the Lowe's Angels Lakers.
05:00I was pretty sure I played my last game.
05:02I was honest at that last press conference, when I said I needed to look at myself.
05:07And decide if I still love this game, James wrote.
05:10That's a heavy admission from a guy, who spent over two decades being the most durable, most relentless competitor in
05:17the sport.
05:17This wasn't a knee injury talking, or a bad shooting night.
05:20This was LeBron genuinely unsure, if he wanted to keep lacing them up.
05:25So what happened between that press conference, and the moment he signed with the Sixers?
05:30By his own account, nothing dramatic, just time.
05:33He described the stretch afterward, as some of the most meaningful weeks he's had in years, saying it plainly himself.
05:39The last few weeks have really been special.
05:41I've never been able to have no clue what to do.
05:44And take real time to just think, think about that for a second.
05:48This is a guy who has had a five-year plan, mapped out, since he was a teenager in Akron.
05:53He's always known his next move, the trade to Miami, the return to Cleveland, the leap to LA.
05:58Every one of those moves was calculated years in advance.
06:02This time, for maybe the first time in his adult life.
06:04He had no idea what came next, and he sat in that uncertainty, instead of running from it.
06:10That uncertainty is exactly why this decision carries different weight, than every other decision, he's made.
06:16He wasn't chasing a title, he already knew he could get.
06:19He wasn't following a childhood dream back home.
06:21He was staring at the actual end of his career, and asking himself a blunt question.
06:26When he put directly into his own announcement,
06:29This is my last decision, I'm not going for money.
06:32I'm not going for family, what am I really playing for at this point?
06:36That question is the whole ballgame.
06:38Every prior LeBron free agency had an obvious answer built in.
06:42Miami in 2010, was about escaping a Cleveland team that couldn't win.
06:47The Cleveland return in 2014, was about legacy and home.
06:51The Lakers in 2018, was about family, Hollywood, building a brand for life after basketball.
06:57This time, none of those motivations applied anymore.
07:00He'd already done all of it, he already has the money.
07:03He already has the rings, he already went home once, so he answered his own question.
07:08And the answer he gave was almost stripped of everything, except the sport itself.
07:12I still want to sacrifice, I still want to work, I still want to grind.
07:16I still want to compete, to win, and to have a chance at the feeling of winning.
07:20That's not corporate athlete speak.
07:22That's a guy telling you, in plain language,
07:25That the only thing left pulling him back onto an NBA court,
07:28Is the actual feeling of competing for a championship,
07:31Not a paycheck, not a media market, just the chase itself.
07:35And once he settled that question in his own head,
07:38The geography of where he'd play,
07:40Stopped being about comfort, and started being purely about opportunity.
07:44That's a massive shift for a guy,
07:46Who has always folded family, and business considerations.
07:49Into every career decision he's made.
07:51This time he said it outright,
07:53Those things weren't driving the bus anymore.
07:56Which brings us to the part of the story,
07:58Where his own front office, started working against the Lakers.
08:01Without even meaning to,
08:03Because while LeBron was deciding whether he still loved the game,
08:06The Lakers were already quietly building for a future,
08:09That didn't necessarily, include him at full siege.
08:12His agent had flagged it months earlier,
08:15Saying plainly, that the front office understood its situation.
08:18He knows the Lakers are building for the future,
08:20He understands that, but he values a realistic chance,
08:23Of winning it all,
08:25Paul told ESPN's Shams Charania in June.
08:28That's the quiet signal that got missed by a lot of fans at the time,
08:31When your own representation is publicly acknowledging,
08:34That your team is rebuilding around you rather than for you,
08:37That's not a throwaway line.
08:39That's the first crack in the foundation of an 8-year partnership.
08:43The retirement scare gave LeBron room to ask what he wanted.
08:46The Lakers' direction gave him a reason to look elsewhere for the answer.
08:50By the time free agency actually opened,
08:53LeBron wasn't a guy debating between 3 or 4 max-level teams,
08:57The way he had in years past.
08:59He was a guy who had already quietly made peace,
09:02With playing his final years.
09:04Wherever gave him the clearest runway to a 5th ring.
09:07Even if that meant taking a pay cut,
09:09Of nearly 45 million dollars to do it.
09:12That's the backdrop.
09:13Now, we get into the machine that actually pulled him toward Philadelphia.
09:17Because it wasn't an accident,
09:18And it wasn't just LeBron thinking it through alone in a room.
09:22Philadelphia didn't just get lucky.
09:24They built a pitch.
09:25They ran it through the one channel that actually mattered.
09:28And they didn't let up for weeks.
09:29The channel was Rich Paul's podcast.
09:32Paul, LeBron's longtime agent and the head of Clutch Sports,
09:35Co-hosts a show called Game Over with Max Kellerman.
09:38And in the middle of the most secretive free agency of LeBron's career,
09:42Philadelphia found a way to walk straight through the front door.
09:45Bob Myers laid out his sales pitch to LeBron James,
09:48While appearing on the podcast from the 22-time All-Stars agent, Rich Paul.
09:53On Game Over, the show co-hosted by Paul and Max Kellerman,
09:56Myers argued the Philadelphia 76ers provide James with his best opportunity to win a 5th NBA title.
10:03Think about how unusual that is.
10:05The Sixers' own basketball executive going on the podcast, run by the player's agent.
10:10Making his case directly, in real time, with the whole league watching.
10:14And Myers didn't hedge.
10:16He told Paul Flatley, on the record,
10:19If he was here, I'd say I honestly believe this is your best chance to win.
10:23That single sentence was the entire Sixers' recruiting strategy in miniature.
10:28Not join us and we'll build toward something.
10:31Not trust the process, like the old slogan Philadelphia fans had been chanting for a decade.
10:36Just this is the fastest, clearest road back to a championship.
10:40Right now, at your age, with the roster we already have.
10:44And Paul, who obviously wasn't going to hand out his client's decision for free,
10:48still let enough slip to make clear the Sixers were dominating the conversation.
10:53Multiple people around the situation noticed it.
10:56Analysts tracking the podcast episode by episode pointed out that Paul and Kellerman
11:01easily spent the most time talking about the Sixers.
11:04With Paul even going back and referencing them multiple times while talking about other teams.
11:09That's not incidental.
11:11When an agent keeps circling back to one team across an entire broadcast,
11:15that tells you where the real gravity is.
11:18Paul eventually said it himself, almost daring anyone to argue.
11:22How could you not have his attention when you have Maxi, Edgecombe, Brown, Embiid?
11:26That list is the actual case.
11:29It's not one superstar begging LeBron to come save a franchise.
11:33It's a roster that had already assembled real firepower before LeBron ever said yes.
11:38And the centerpiece of that pitch wasn't Embiid, even though he's the former MVP.
11:43It was Tyrese Maxi.
11:44When Kellerman pushed Paul directly on whether Maxi was the main draw.
11:49Paul didn't dodge it.
11:50If there is a draw from the Philadelphia 76ers.
11:54Of course it starts with Tyrese Maxi, absolutely, Paul said.
11:58Why not just because I represent both players?
12:01I've never seen a guy play 48 minutes smiling.
12:04That's a specific, personal detail.
12:07The kind of thing an agent says about a player he genuinely believes in.
12:11Not just a talking point.
12:13And Maxi wasn't sitting back letting his agent do all the work.
12:17Behind the scenes, while the podcast theater was playing out publicly.
12:21The actual Sixers players were working LeBron directly.
12:24Embiid, Brown and Maxi had all been in communication with James during his free agency saga.
12:30With Maxi leading the charge.
12:32Star players don't usually get that involved in recruiting a free agent themselves.
12:37That's normally left to front offices and agents.
12:41Maxi picking up the phone personally tells you how badly Philadelphia wanted this.
12:45And how much they believed a personal relationship could tip it.
12:49Then there's the trade that changed the entire pitch overnight.
12:52Before July, the Sixers were a solid but limited roster.
12:56Embiid's health always a question mark.
12:59Maxi the engine, but no second star to share the marquee.
13:02Then Philadelphia made a move that reset the whole conversation.
13:06They flipped Paul George in a deal for Jalen Brown.
13:09And league insiders treated it as an outright heist.
13:12Max Kellerman himself described the trade on air.
13:15By joking Brown was acquired for what amounted to nothing more than a sandwich.
13:20Suddenly, the roster LeBron was being pitched wasn't hypothetical.
13:24It was real, it had a finals MVP on it.
13:27And it had just gotten dramatically better in a single transaction.
13:31That's the moment the pitch stopped being theoretical and started being mathematical.
13:36A team with Embiid, Maxi and now Brown wasn't asking LeBron to be the sole engine of a rebuild.
13:42They were asking him to be the final piece on a team that could already compete.
13:47That's a completely different proposition than what Cleveland or Miami could offer.
13:52And it's the exact distinction Bob Myers kept hammering on the podcast.
13:56There's also a quieter, more personal thread running through this.
14:00Philadelphia's president of basketball operations, Mike Gansey, wasn't a stranger reaching out cold.
14:06Sixers president of basketball operations, Mike Gansey has a history with James.
14:11They first crossed paths as Ohio high school basketball players.
14:15And later when Gansey was an executive with the Cavaliers.
14:19That's an Ohio connection, a basketball connection.
14:22Going back decades before either of them ran an NBA front office.
14:26Or wore an NBA jersey for money.
14:29When LeBron picked up the phone or read a text from Gansey,
14:32he wasn't hearing from a random executive selling a pitch deck.
14:36He was hearing from someone who'd known him since he was a teenager.
14:39Added all up, the podcast pitch running for weeks.
14:43Myers making his case directly to Paul.
14:45Maxie personally recruiting.
14:47The Jalen Brown trade landing right in the middle of the sales pitch.
14:51And a front office executive with an Ohio basketball history, with LeBron going back decades.
14:57And Philadelphia's win looks less like an upset and more like a campaign that simply worked.
15:02The Sixers didn't wait for LeBron to pick them.
15:05They spent an entire summer making sure he couldn't ignore them.
15:08Every why he chose them, story is also a why he left them story.
15:12And this one has three cities worth of goodbye built into it.
15:16Start with Lowe's Angels, because that breakup happened first and fastest.
15:21Eight years won championship, a Hollywood chapter of his career.
15:24That reshaped how he was seen off the court as much as on it.
15:28And it ended with a phone call before free agency even technically opened.
15:32Not a farewell tour, not a jersey retirement ceremony.
15:36Nothing sentimental at all in the moment it happened.
15:39James' eight-year run with the Lowe's Angels Lakers ended on June 30.
15:44When he informed the team he planned to pursue other options.
15:47Hours before the start of the official free agency period.
15:51The Lakers' response was gracious but final.
15:54Their governor, Jeannie Buss, put out a statement that read like a family sending someone off.
15:59Rather than a business closing a chapter.
16:01Telling reporters we wish him all the best in the future, both on the court and off.
16:05He will always be a cherished part of the Lakers family.
16:09Nice words but words for a departure, not a stay.
16:12LeBron himself circled back to Lowe's Angels at the very bottom of his announcement.
16:17And it's worth noticing how short that goodbye actually was compared to everything else he wrote.
16:22Just two words, thank you LA.
16:25No essay, no nostalgia tour through the championship parade or the highlight reels.
16:30Just a thank you and he moved on.
16:32Compare that to how he closed out the other two cities in his career.
16:36Because the difference tells you everything about how he ranks his own history.
16:40Miami got warmth.
16:42Northeast Ohio got something even bigger.
16:44He didn't call it a former team.
16:46He called it home, present tense.
16:48Miami I'll forever love and Northeast Ohio will always home.
16:52Lowe's Angels got gratitude.
16:54Miami got love.
16:55Cleveland got the word home.
16:56That's not an accident from a guy who's this deliberate with every word he releases publicly.
17:02Now here's the piece that makes this whole situation stranger and more human than a normal
17:07front office transaction.
17:09Brawny.
17:10LeBron's son was drafted by the Lakers two years earlier.
17:13Making the two of them the first father-son duo to share an NBA roster at the same time.
17:18That mattered enough to LeBron that he'd once said, years before Brawny was even drafted,
17:23that wherever his son ended up, that's where he'd go too.
17:27He told a reporter back then, wherever Brawny is at, that's where I'll be.
17:31I would do whatever it takes to play with my son for one year.
17:34It's not about the money at that point.
17:37And yet here we are, LeBron walking away from the exact team his son plays for.
17:42That's a real shift from a stance he held publicly for years.
17:45When speculation about LeBron leaving started swirling earlier in the summer,
17:50reporters went straight to Brawny for reaction.
17:52And Brawny gave the answer of a kid, who spent his whole life being asked about his father's
17:57next move.
17:58Deflecting without lying.
18:00I have no idea what you're talking about.
18:02I don't really pay attention that stuff.
18:04Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going around that I don't pay attention to.
18:08Once the move became official, LeBron addressed the split from his son's team,
18:12with something closer to Gallo's humor than grief.
18:15At a public event before he'd even settled on Philadelphia.
18:18He called the whole situation, his free agency turning his own son into a former teammate,
18:24flat out, hilarious.
18:25While speaking at the CNBC and boardroom's game plan, Summit at Fanatics Fest.
18:30That's a strange word to use about your own kid's basketball future.
18:34But it tells you LeBron had already made peace with prioritizing his own final chapter.
18:40Overstaying glued to his son's locker room.
18:42And it's not like the Lakers were shopping Brawny out the door in retaliation.
18:47If anything, the opposite happened, once LeBron's exit became real.
18:51The Lakers had every incentive to trade Brawny for value, and they didn't.
18:56His third year of a four-year contract with the NBA team, now fully guaranteed,
19:01means he will likely remain a Laker.
19:03Fans immediately clocked the irony online, joking on Reddit.
19:07That LeBron had waited until his son's money was locked in before making his own move.
19:12That's the personal cost of this decision, and it's real.
19:15LeBron didn't just leave a franchise.
19:18He left the one place in the league where he got to watch his own son develop up close.
19:23Every night from the same bench.
19:25Whatever the basketball logic says about Philadelphia's roster,
19:29that part of the decision doesn't have a spreadsheet behind it.
19:32That's a father choosing one more shot at a championship
19:35over one more year of proximity to his kid.
19:38Add that to the goodbyes to Miami and Cleveland.
19:41Two cities that gave him championships and identity.
19:44And you start to see the actual shape of what last decision really cost him.
19:49It wasn't just leaving a team.
19:51It was closing every door that had ever felt like home, all at once.
19:55To open one that had never said yes to him before.
19:58So here's where it all lands.
20:00LeBron James, 41 years old, in the final stretch of a career that's already rewritten the record books.
20:06Put on a Philadelphia 76ers jersey, instead of walking away or going home.
20:11And the response from the city, from the roster, from the fans, from the government,
20:16has been instant and enormous.
20:18Start with the roster he's actually walking into,
20:20because this is the part that makes the whole gamble make sense on paper.
20:24Picture this group on the floor together.
20:27Tyrese Maxey, second-year wing VJ Edgecombe,
20:30Jalen Brown, LeBron James and Joel Embiid.
20:33A lineup with elite rim protection, multiple shot creators, championship experience,
20:38and one of the best playmakers to ever touch a basketball running the show.
20:42That's not a rebuild, that's a finished product or close to it.
20:46Maxey gives them speed and shooting.
20:48Brown brings two-way star power.
20:50After arriving in a blockbuster this offseason, Embiid remains a match-up nightmare when healthy.
20:56And LeBron ties it all together as the connective playmaker, who makes everyone else better.
21:01The betting markets didn't just nudge in response, they lurched.
21:05Before any of this, Philadelphia was buried in the odds,
21:08listed as plus 2,000 to win the NBA Finals, as of July 20.
21:12Within hours of the signing, they'd rocketed all the way up,
21:16and by the time the dust settled they sat at plus 1,000.
21:19The fourth favorite behind Oklahoma City, San Antonio, and the Knicks.
21:24That's an entire conference's math, getting rewritten by one signature on one contract.
21:29Inside the ESPN, reporting on James' own thinking,
21:32There's a detail that cuts through all the noise about money and roster fit,
21:37and gets right down to the actual calculation running through his head.
21:40A source close to the situation told ESPN's Dave McMenamin exactly how LeBron settled on this.
21:47A source familiar with LeBron James' thinking told ESPN,
21:50that LeBron's choice hinged on the pursuit of a championship.
21:54After weighing his options, he believes that Philly gives him the best chance of doing that.
21:59Not comfort, not legacy building in a market he already dominates.
22:03Just a cold, simple bet, on which roster gives him the best shot at a fifth ring,
22:08before his body says no more.
22:09And there's a real chance, this isn't a one-year victory lap either.
22:14Charania's own reporting, suggested this could be the final home of his career, full stop.
22:19There is a real chance, James plays both years of his contract in Philadelphia.
22:23Not a stopover, not a rental. Possibly the last address of a 24-year career.
22:29The city responded like it understood the stakes, immediately.
22:32Beyond the players buzzing on social media, the reaction reached all the way up to the governor's office.
22:38With Josh Shapiro, announcing that the day would be known as LeBron James Day.
22:43Posting a proclamation on X, following the announcement.
22:46That's not a press release from a basketball team.
22:49That's an entire state government treating a free agent signing like a civic holiday.
22:54And the stakes for Philadelphia specifically go beyond just LeBron's own ring count.
22:59This city has been starving.
23:00The 41-year-old James will put on his fourth NBA uniform.
23:04As he attempts to end a 43-year championship, drought in the city of brotherly love.
23:1043 years without a title.
23:12That's the actual weight sitting on this roster now.
23:14Not just LeBron's legacy, but an entire fan base's patience finally cashing in a chip
23:19they've been saving since before most of this roster was born.
23:23So where does that leave everything we've walked through?
23:25A retirement scare that made LeBron ask himself what he was really playing for.
23:30An answer that had nothing to do with money or family for the first time in his career.
23:34A Sixers front office that ran a recruiting campaign through a podcast,
23:38through personal relationships going back to Ohio high school gyms,
23:41through a blockbuster trade timed perfectly to close the sale.
23:44A son left behind on a Lakers roster that quietly locked in his contract,
23:49right as his father walked out the door.
23:51Two other cities, Miami and Cleveland, still holding pieces of LeBron's heart
23:55that Lowe's Angels never quite got.
23:57All of that funneled into one signature, one contract worth a fraction,
24:02of what he'd made the year before, and one lineup that Vegas now thinks,
24:06can compete for a championship this coming season.
24:09Whether it actually gets there is still unwritten.
24:12But the reason he's there in the first place isn't a mystery anymore.
24:16He told everyone himself, in his own words, on the day it became official.
24:20He's not doing this for money, and he's not doing this for family.
24:23He's doing it because he still wants to feel what winning feels like.
24:27One more time and he decided Philadelphia gives him the best shot.
24:31At that feeling before it's gone for good.
24:34LeBron James signs with 76ers.
24:36Philadelphia lands the king in stunning 2026 free agency,
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26:44LeBron James joins Philadelphia 76ers after LA Lakers exit E. online.
26:50LeBron James to Philly, Sixers players react, The Enquirer.
26:54Lakers' Bronny James reacts to speculation of LeBron James, potentially leaving CBS Sports.
27:00Bob Myers pitches LeBron James on joining 76ers, Bleacher Report.
27:05This is your best chance to win.
27:07Bob Myers pitched Philly to LeBron James basketball network.
27:10Bob Myers makes Sixers pitch to LeBron James on Rich Paul's podcast, Philly Voice.
27:16Is Tyrese Maxey the main attraction for LeBron James?
27:19Rich Paul answers, Philly Voice.
27:21Rich Paul on Sixers, how could they not have his attention?
27:24Liberty Ballers, NBA Free Agency, 2026 Preview, ESPN.
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