Bob Myers just pitched LeBron James directly: “Come to Philly if you want to win a championship”

Bob Myers went on a podcast and did the one thing every Sixers fan has been begging this front office to do for a decade: he stopped being coy and made the pitch out loud.

Bob Myers looked at the LeBron James situation and basically said the quiet part into a microphone. If it’s about winning, come to Philadelphia. You can win here.

That’s the pitch. And it’s the most competent thing anyone attached to this organization has said in years.

What Bob Myers actually said

76ers president Bob Myers makes his case to LeBron/Rich Paul on why he should join the Sixers:

“If he was here I’d say ‘I honestly believe this is your best chance to win. You have to decide all the other things that are equally important’ — What I would just say is, if it’s… https://t.co/ciC9dQJvWv pic.twitter.com/AJB0WexPHk

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The framing was simple. If LeBron were sitting across from him, Bob Myers would tell him he honestly believes Philly is his best chance to win, and that everything else, the money, the market, the noise, is a decision only LeBron can make. But if the whole thing comes down to championships, then let’s talk about this team.

Because this team is different now.

The Jaylen Brown trade blew up the old roster and gave Philadelphia a starting core of Maxey, Embiid, Edgecombe, and Brown. Rich Paul saw that and put the Sixers first on his whiteboard of ten teams. His exact word was “everything changed.”

He’s not wrong.

You drop LeBron into that lineup and the East doesn’t have an answer. Not Cleveland. Not Miami. Not the team in New York that just won a title and is currently pretending it doesn’t care.

Myers isn’t some empty suit reading a card. He built the Warriors. He won four rings watching Steph and Klay grow up in front of him, and now he’s staring at another young backcourt in Maxey and Edgecombe and seeing the same movie.

Gansey knows LeBron from the Cleveland days. Myers knows how to build a champion. Paul already said he and LeBron love the leadership here.

The relationships are there. The roster is there. The one open spot and the minimum are there.

And for the first time in a long time, the guy running the show in Philadelphia said the words instead of hiding behind them.

LeBron is 41. He’s decided this one is about happiness, not pressure. Fine.

Come find out what happiness sounds like when the Wells Fargo Center loses its mind on opening night.

The pitch is made. The rest is up to him.