LeBron James Rumors

CGTN Sports Scene: "I was inspired by the game. I love the game. But I don't have coaching in my future." - @LeBron James on the question of whether he would become a coach in the future.

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ClutchPoints: Dwyane Wade and LeBron James are all smiles ahead of this year’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony 🙌

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The announcement came nearly two months after Clark sustained her groin injury on July 15. At first, expectations were that she might return before the end of the season, but the recovery process stalled. Clark also suffered a bone bruise in her left ankle during an individual workout on August 7, which further delayed her progress. The Fever’s medical staff remained cautious about long-term risks and ultimately decided it was best for Clark to prioritize her full health heading into 2026. Support for Clark poured in across the basketball world, highlighted by a message from LeBron James. The Los Angeles Lakers star commented on her Instagram post: “Minor setback for a MAJOR COMEBACK!! Rest up, get healthy and be YOU! 🙏🏾🫡👑”

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Stephen Colbert: What's your relationship like with LeBron James? Carmelo Anthony: That's my brother. I mean, we talk about being around, being together, being tied, being connected, being talked about since we were 17, 18 years old. And for me to be entering the Hall of Fame and for him to hopefully get his ass up out of there and come on, come on over this side. Enough is enough. Give it a break.

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CGTN Sports Scene: 🔥This is how Chengdu welcomes @LeBron James!👑 🤩The Tianfu Twin Towers lit up for LeBron James, who is visiting Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Friday. #Lakers #NBA #LakeShow

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The KD 17s, Book 1s, and Sabrina 2s were the next most popular models, which means two of the top four signature athletes (Kobe and Sabrina Ionescu) currently don't play in the NBA, and the other two (Kevin Durant and Devin Booker) were both on the Phoenix Suns last season. After Sabrina, there is a dropoff to LeBron James, who has released dozens of signature models over his 20-year career, and James Harden’s out-of-this-world designs. Harden (adidas) is the first non-Nike athlete on the list, which might tell you something about Nike’s continued dominance in the basketball shoe market.

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Nick DePaula: Nike is launching the “Uncharted” LeBron 23 ahead of @KingJames’ 23rd NBA season — celebrating his milestone of becoming the first player to score more than 40,000 points. Shoe features bold crown design as key storytelling of “Forever King” year-long campaign. pic.x.com/An74Sf1afC

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“If I’m a betting man, I think this will be his last season,” Pierce said about James. “You know, I think he’s played 21, 22 years. He’s been the GOAT for so long. He’s maintained the stats. We appreciate what he brought to the game and how he’s held the mantle since (Michael) Jordan left. Bron is one of them ones. We appreciate him. But I think his time is up. But we appreciate what he’s done for the league.”

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Fullcourtpass: Paul Pierce thinks this will be LeBron James last season in the NBA “He’s been the GOAT for so long, he’s maintained the stats… I think his time is up but we appreciate what he’s done for the league.”

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Q: Who's considered the GOAT? Jordan or LeBron? Dennis Rodman: We know who that is, man. Jordan all day long. N3ON: What's your reasoning? Cuz I agree with you but chat gets mad at me when they say LeBron. Dennis Rodman: You can ask me anything on the planet. Guess what? People forgot about that one guy, man. That one guy that's called Kobe Bryant. People forget about him, man. They talk about everybody else. They don't talk about Kobe for some reason.

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So give us a bit of a behind the scenes look if you can. What's the rating system like? How do you guys go about putting together ratings? Ronnie 2K: Yeah, there's 30 some-odd mini ratings and mini attributes that get cooked into a formula, and it's based purely on performance on the court. In some cases, it's based on, like the young guys, right? We don't have a ton of sample information of them playing against other NBA people. So their's can kind of dramatically increase or decrease based on performance as you would expect and then the people that have been in the league for 10 or 15 years. It's a little bit more sticky, right? Like they're rating is kind of what you would expect. LeBron and Steph. I think they're both down one point from last year. People like Giannis and Jokic have stayed about the same. You would expect that, but like somebody like Cade Cunningham, whose in year three or four and missed a good chunk of the early parts in his career just jumped up six points. [Victor Wembanyama] hen we jumped up six points, so there's a lot of people that are going to grow.

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Howard is one of 19 players in NBA history with five consecutive first-team All-NBA nods. The only other centers on that list are Shaq and George Mikan. The only other 21st-century players are LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Giannis Antetokounmpo, O'Neal, Luka Doncic and Kevin Durant -- who, with the exception of the young Doncic, are acknowledged as top-25 players in NBA history. Critics would contend that Howard so thoroughly dominated the All-NBA voting because of a lesser caliber of competition in that era. This idea has some merit: Though the center landscape wasn't quite as barren during Howard's reign as it would be half a decade later -- the All-NBA centers in 2015-16 were DeAndre Jordan, DeMarcus Cousins and Andre Drummond -- the second- and third-team All-NBA centers behind Howard were Amar'e Stoudemire (three times), Yao Ming (twice), Suns-era Shaq, Andrew Bogut, Al Horford, Andrew Bynum and Tyson Chandler. There are good players on that list, but few Hall of Famers.

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At 37 it begs the question: what is his motivation to travel across the other side of the world to play in the NBL with the defending champion Illawarra Hawks? For McGee, the answer is simple. “I was in the NBA for 16 years and I always had a hint of jealously towards the European players because they get to go to different countries and really explore,” said McGee, who has played alongside future Hall of Famers LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant throughout his stellar NBA career. “I never really had that opportunity, so when this opportunity came up to come to Australia ... I jumped straight on it.

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Overall, LeBron is a good shooter: he ranked 36th out of 117 eligible players3 last season in effective field goal percentage (57.1%) and is in the top 10 percentile all time. But LeBron is not good on the aspects of shooting that are isolated in free throws. Using NBA tracking data, we can look at shooting percentage on “wide open” shots, when the closest defender is over 6 feet away. For some players, the extra time and space takes them out of their rhythm and makes what should be an easier shot, a more challenging one. That seems to be the case for LeBron. He makes just over half of these wide open twos, amongst the lowest rates in the league. Interestingly, Steph Curry, aka the best shooter of all time, is also down here, making exactly half of his 24 wide open twos last season.

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