{"id":1918933,"date":"2026-07-26T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1918933"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:14:09","slug":"lebron-james-picked-philadelphia-eight-years-after-billboards-asked-him-to-come-to-the-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1918933","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James picked Philadelphia, eight years after billboards asked him to come to the 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James has announced he&#8217;s joining the Philadelphia 76ers, calling it the \u201clast decision\u201d of his playing career. Back in 2018, businessman Asher Raphael had put up billboards near Cleveland to woo James to Philadelphia. Although James joined the Lakers that year, Raphael&#8217;s effort now seems p&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/093bb-lebron-james-picked-philadelphia-eight-years-after-billboards-asked-him-to-come-to-the-76ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James has announced he&#8217;s joining the Philadelphia 76ers, calling it the \u201clast decision\u201d of his playing career. Back in 2018, businessman Asher Raphael had put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918934,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918933\/revisions\/1918934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}