LeBron James is a 76er, he’s wearing 23, they want him running point, and he isn’t moving to Philadelphia. He’s staying in New York and taking a helicopter to home games.
Covino and Rich think that’s a mistake, and not a small one. Bryce Harper showed up in Philly and campaigned for that city. He ate the cheesesteaks, he did the photo shoots, he moved fourteen minutes outside of town. LeBron is signing a lease in Manhattan. The guys run the math on how many times Philly is going to swing from loving him to hating him over the next two years, and Covino compares the whole thing to Giuliani putting on a Red Sox hat in Massachusetts. It comes across the same way. Earlier in the show: Kyle Shanahan crashed his car on July 14th. Concussion, broken ribs, broken nose, forty stitches in his head. Nobody outside the building said a word for eleven days. That turns into a much better argument about whether anyone can actually keep a secret, why Covino says Rich Davis sinks ships, and the celebrity guest who casually outed himself in a pre-taped interview that Covino and Rich killed instead of running.
Plus the Heat intern who leaked a LeBron countdown on YouTube and got fired for it, Ken Goldin publicly cornering the LeBron Sixers memorabilia market, whether that jersey outsells Curry’s, Cody Bellinger going down for four to six weeks, and a full round of Last One Standing that ended on a Patrick Mahomes tiebreaker nobody came close to.
Covino & Rich: LeBron is helicoptering into Philly and Sixers fans should be worried | July 27
