LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er! Plus, Could Embiid Be Traded?
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What was the immediate reaction to LeBron James signing with the Philadelphia 76ers?
Coming up on the Zach Lowe Show, it's Friday afternoon, but you're probably going to be listening to this Sunday morning. LeBron James just signed with the Philadelphia 76ers about five and a half hours ago. I already taped an emergency Bill Simmons podcast with Bill Simmons. This is the deeper dive with Chris Ryan, Philly's own, and Michael Pina to do the X's and O's and where do the Sixers... Stack up in the Eastern Conference and all that good stuff. Just tons of stuff on, like, how is Chris feeling about LeBron James being a Sixer? Feels weird. It feels weird to say it out loud. It feels weird to look at him in the Sixers jersey. How is this going to work offensively? How did Jalen Brown, Tyrese Maxey, Vijay Edgecombe, Joel Embiid, and LeBron freaking James all share the ball on offense?
What do the rotations look like? Are we overlooking some potential defensive concerns? Would the Sixers try to trade Joel Embiid? Is that actually the smart thing for them to do? Is he completely untradeable? What trades even make sense? Where do they rank in the Eastern Conference, which has at least 11 pretty solid to very good teams? Is this the best starting five in the NBA? Is LeBron a ring chaser? We get into that. And does this feel at peace with the rest of his career? Is this an outlier move? Just all the LeBron stuff. Again, you're listening to this Sunday morning because we're giving it a little lag time from the bill pod. But these are more or less our semi-instant headlines. reactions, intel.
I've been on the phone all afternoon. What did teams know? When did they know it? What is, how are the teams going to pivot? So we'll talk a little bit about that all coming up on the Zach Lowe show.
Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show. You will be hearing this early Sunday morning, but we are recording it at exactly 4 p.m. Eastern time on Friday because of our varying scheduling conflicts over the weekend. In the aftermath of LeBron James signing, what he said will be his last decision, signing with the Philadelphia 76ers. Look, if something happens between now and when this posts, I will try my best to hop on and do a solo thing. I think we're going to see Draymond and Green, James Harden, potentially Jonathan Kaminga, the Cavs like him. We'll see DeMar DeRozan, Bradley Beal, Kawhi Leonard thing. Who knows? Like all of this stuff is in play, but we got to start. LeBron James is a sixer and I got a lot of topics to hit.
I got a lot of thoughts, got a lot of thoughts on the Eastern Conference, but I think it's important in these moments to just step back for a second and And say the words again, LeBron James, the all-time leading scorer in the NBA, arguably the greatest player of all time. is a member not of the Cleveland Cavaliers, not of the Miami Heat, not of the Los Angeles Lakers, not with his buddy Steph in Golden State, of the star-crossed Philadelphia 76ers. He's going to be wearing a Sixers jersey that Allen Iverson wore. He's going to have to pick a jersey number that's available. I'm not sure. I guess 23 and 6. 6 probably isn't available. I don't know. Chris Ryan. He's a sixer. Can you say it one more time?
LeBron James. LeBron James. And maybe someday Bronny James, but currently LeBron James is a member of the Philadelphia 76ers with Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, B.J. Edgecombe, Dean Wade, Anthony Simons and Jalen Brown. Yeah, I mean, I just need you're you're an NBA diehard like the rest of us. You've our lives, our age, our age range. We like perfectly aligned with LeBron's age range and career. Like, are you just still floored? What's happening in your life?
Total shock. A very, very classic, like, looked at my phone at 8.30 and had 75 text messages. This feels better than not getting LeBron James.
I'll say that.
Which has happened a couple of times over the course of LeBron's career, you know, where the Philly has been like this outsider candidate to land him, probably always used for leverage, never a realistic destination. I have no idea like how this happened. I mean, there had been like these little rumors and, you know, Josh Harris is talking to him at Fanatics Fest and, you know, Maxie and Vijay and Jalen and Embiid are all lobbying him and all this stuff.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What was the immediate reaction to LeBron James signing with the Philadelphia 76ers?
0:06–13:53
2
How did Chris Ryan and Michael Pina describe Philly fans' emotional response to the signing?
13:53–37:17
3
Does LeBron joining the Sixers instantly make Philadelphia a legitimate title contender?
37:17–1:10:57
Speakers
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