{"id":19286,"date":"2023-07-09T18:43:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/lebron-james-reacts-to-gregg-popovich-signing-extension-with-spurs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:43:25","slug":"lebron-james-reacts-to-gregg-popovich-signing-extension-with-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/lebron-james-reacts-to-gregg-popovich-signing-extension-with-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James reacts to Gregg Popovich signing extension with Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><picture><source data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ZZJQCQucxvCl.webp 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ZZJQCQucxvCl-560x373.webp 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" type=\"image\/webp\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ZZJQCQucxvCl.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ZZJQCQucxvCl.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ZZJQCQucxvCl-560x373.jpeg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gregg Popovich\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: San Antonio Spurs\/YouTube screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>There were some speculations about a possible retirement of Gregg Popovich last year, but the 74-year-old coach is nowhere near leaving the league.<\/p>\n<p>This week it was announced that the five-time NBA champion inked a five-year, $80 million extension with the Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>The news prompted a reaction by LeBron James. \u201cPOP!!!!!! Congrats on the new deal. Next wine dinner on you \ud83c\udf77\ud83c\udf77\ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude09,\u201d Lakers superstar tweeted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">POP!!!!!! Congrats on the new deal. Next wine dinner on you \ud83c\udf77\ud83c\udf77\ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1678021223484362753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: San Antonio Spurs\/YouTube screenshot There were some speculations about a possible retirement of Gregg Popovich last year, but the 74-year-old coach is nowhere near leaving the league. This week it was announced that the five-time NBA champion inked a five-year, $80 million extension with the Spurs. The news prompted a reaction by LeBron James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1491,2243,203,202,2244,906,982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19288,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions\/19288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}