Silver: 'No rules issue' with LeBron's helicopter commute
Kris RhimOct 20, 2026, 03:02 PM ET
- Kris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris covers the Los Angeles Chargers, including coach Jim Harbaugh's franchise-altering first season. In Kris' free time, he lives his NBA dreams at men's leagues across Los Angeles.
NEW YORK -- The helicopter used by Philadelphia 76ers forward LeBron James to commute from New York is "perfectly appropriate," NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on the Pat McAfee show Tuesday.
"He has a deal with Fanatics," Silver said. "It's perfectly appropriate if part of his deal is they're gonna supply a helicopter to him as long as it's just a deal between the Fanatics and LeBron and no team is involved; there's no rules issue there whatsoever."
After signing with the Sixers in free agency, James decided live in New York - a decision Sixers players have made before him including his former coach, JJ Reddick, - but James' choice to travel by helicopter has made headlines.
During press conferences after practice, players often pause and laugh as James' helicopter is heard exiting from the roof of the team's business center, drowning out the sound in the facility.
James recently brushed off the added attention to his travel.
"I've done it before, just another way of transportation," he said.
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