{"id":76286,"date":"2022-07-09T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/lakers-lebron-james-russell-westbrook-ignore-each-other-at-summer-league-game"},"modified":"2022-10-09T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:55:41","slug":"lakers-lebron-james-russell-westbrook-ignore-each-other-at-summer-league-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/lakers-lebron-james-russell-westbrook-ignore-each-other-at-summer-league-game","title":{"rendered":"Lakers: LeBron James &amp; Russell Westbrook Ignore Each Other at Summer League Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James and Russell Westbrook didn&#8217;t exchange a single word despite both attending the Lakers Summer League game on Friday night. The Lakers played their first game in the Las Vegas Summer League yesterday, but the most newsworthy event had nothing to do with anything that happened on court. In fact, what didn&#8217;t happen off the court between Russell Westbrook and LeBron James is what really caught the attention of Lakers fans. View the original article to see embedded media. Despite both players, and scores of current Lakers players, Rob Pelinka, and new head coach Darvin Ham, being in attendance at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center, LeBron James and Russell Westbrook didn&#8217;t speak publicly. The Athletic&#8217;s Jovan Buha is one of the many reporters that finds the lack of public interaction intriguing. &#8220;Westbrook never walked over, though, leaving just as the halftime buzzer sounded. James stayed through the end of the third quarter. The two never acknowledged each other. Perhaps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James and Russell Westbrook didn&#8217;t exchange a single word despite both attending the Lakers Summer League game on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,256,58],"class_list":["post-76286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}