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The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Congrats or sorry about yesterday’s big news. Inside: 🔔 LeBron to Philly 👆 Well, more of this Tony Romo arrested LeBron: Finally, a King for Philly to accept The sports world revolves…

The Golden State Warriors have been one of the NBA’s marquee franchises for more than a decade. But with news of LeBron James’ decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday reverberating around the league, the cold reality of next season is hitting the Warriors and their fan base. Golden State was considered one of…

At least 18 men’s college basketball players will earn more than LeBron James next season. The last time that was true? Try the 2002-03 season, when James was a senior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High in Akron, Ohio. Technically, any college hooper on scholarship “made” more than James at the time, though prominent players were…

A skeptic might look at LeBron James joining the Philadelphia 76ers on July 24 as a scheme that was planned all along. Announced on the 24th day of the month, for his 24th NBA season. A two-year, $8 million deal. One of his idols growing up, Philadelphia native Kobe Bryant, wore Nos. 8 and 24.…

Respect to LeBron James. Because Philly was the hard one. The tough call. The biggest potential for failure at the end of a brilliant career. And yet, James walked right through the door, toward one of the NBA’s toughest and most knowledgeable fanbases; toward an infamous media contingent that, with all due respect to my…

CLEVELAND – After the Cleveland Cavaliers missed out on another LeBron James Reunion Tour, they could turn their attention toward free-agent forward Jonathan Kuminga. Cavs officials maintained contact with Kuminga and his Cleveland-based agent, Aaron Turner, throughout James’ free agency, and there is mutual interest, multiple league sources told The Athletic. They spoke on the…

President Donald Trump wondered if newly minted Philadelphia 76ers star LeBron James might be a “racist” on Friday when asked to pick who he believes to be the greatest basketball player of all time. Trump said he thinks that Michael Jordan is the best player ever. His reasoning was personal. “He’s a really good guy,”…

Now that LeBron James has made his decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers, Adam Silver and the NBA office can finalize next season’s NBA schedule. One assumes the 76ers, James’ new team, will be playing on marquee nights like opening night and Christmas Day. Which raises an important question: Who will they play on each…

The East is back, even if it was hardly ever here. LeBron James’ return to the conference he once dominated is only part of its rise. On Friday, James announced he would join the Philadelphia 76ers, the fourth and, he says, final organization of his career. And yet, the Sixers are hardly automatic favorites to…

Miami Heat president Pat Riley has never been afraid of thinking big and making bold moves. So it was no surprise that at last week’s introductory news conference for Giannis Antetokounmpo, a two-time NBA MVP and longtime target for the Heat, Riley found himself talking about trying to add another multiple-time MVP. Advertisement “I got…