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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…

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…