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The last time we saw the Philadelphia 76ers, they were getting swept out of Xfinity Mobile Arena by the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs. And the Knicks’ fans who took over the building added to the embarrassment, talking smack and gleefully celebrating another season of demise in Philly. Advertisement The…

Joel Embiid, the day before LeBron James officially joined the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, took to the internet with a thought. “The Lakers are FOREVER gonna be Kobe’s and Magic’s team…. Process that,” the 76ers center tweeted. More than eight years later, Embiid and James will be teammates in Philadelphia, with that tweet serving…

If you’re thinking Anthony Edwards is crestfallen by LeBron James’ decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers over the Minnesota Timberwolves, think again. As I reported after news of James’ choice broke Friday, Edwards had a retort to the possibility of his team being spurned by James. During one of several conversations he had with James, Edwards playfully…

The Decision 3.0 has been made. LeBron James announced he is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday. Does that make James the end point of The Process? Hard to say. Eschewing two of his former teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat, and passing on his generational peer, Stephen Curry, James will play for…

PHILADELPHIA — That’s right, I’m here in the city of Philadelphia, where I just told the youth that LeBron James isn’t coming here. Whoops. Before I go to the airport, let me introduce a new endeavor: the jump-ball Power Rankings! We have a tie-up, and we need to go to center court and hand out…

Topps, the Fanatics-owned trading card company, hopped into the NBA newsbreaking business Friday morning. It announced that LeBron James would be signing with the Philadelphia 76ers via a social media post displaying James’ first autographed trading card in a 76ers uniform. Timestamps on the posts from James, Topps’ X account post and ESPN’s Shams Charania…

The unpredictable free agency saga of LeBron James finally ended on Friday with the superstar signing a two-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, catapulting them to third on the 2027 NBA title oddsboard, behind only the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder. Joining the Sixers is yet another surprising free agency decision from James;…

The Minnesota Timberwolves threw everything they possibly could at LeBron James to try to persuade him to chase a championship with them. Anthony Edwards and LaMelo Ball got on the phone with him. Alex Rodriguez led ownership’s pitch given their common ground as superstar athletes who have become business moguls. Tim Connelly’s longstanding working relationship…

Decisions, decisions! You could argue that no player in NBA history has made more impactful ones than LeBron James, at least when it comes to free agency. LeBron has now had four major decisions in his career, and they’ve all sent sizable ripples through the league. With James deciding to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers…

The idea of Stephen Curry and LeBron James pairing up for an entire NBA season with the Golden State Warriors was fun to think about for a few weeks. But now that James has decided to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers and the pairing isn’t going to happen, the Warriors have to move forward. James…