{"id":251882,"date":"2026-07-07T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/nba-teams-fear-lebron-will-end-up-in-this-landing-spot\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:35:18","slug":"nba-teams-fear-lebron-will-end-up-in-this-landing-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/nba-teams-fear-lebron-will-end-up-in-this-landing-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA teams fear LeBron will end up in this landing spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Despite this being his 24th season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/lebron_james\/4544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a> is the biggest fish in NBA free agency \u2014 again.<\/p>\n<p>At least half a dozen teams are reportedly trying to make a run at the four-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a> champion, who informed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/los_angeles_lakers\/89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> he wouldn&#8217;t return.<\/p>\n<p>There have been conflicting reports about James&#8217; next stop, though a return to Cleveland seems to be gaining steam.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN insider Brian Windhorst, league sentiment is that James will return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/cleveland_cavaliers\/69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cavaliers<\/a> for a third glorious stint.<\/p>\n<h2>NBA teams think LeBron James will sign with the Cavaliers<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to people in Philly, and I\u2019m like what do you think? \u2018We\u2019re afraid it\u2019s Cleveland,\u2019 \u2013 everybody I talked to is like \u2018we\u2019re afraid it\u2019s Cleveland,\u2019 \u2013 nobody seems like they have optimism,\u201d Windhorst said on &#8220;Pardon My Take&#8221; (h\/t ESPN Cleveland).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/nba_teams_fear_lebron_will_end_up_in_this_landing_spot\/s1_13132_44033394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite this being his 24th season, LeBron James is the biggest fish in NBA free agency \u2014 again. At least half a dozen teams are reportedly trying to make a run at the four-time NBA champion, who informed the Los Angeles Lakers he wouldn&#8217;t return. There have been conflicting reports about James&#8217; next stop, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}