{"id":87987,"date":"2026-04-01T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/lebron-d-wades-iconic-40-pt-duel-20-years-later\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:43:42","slug":"lebron-d-wades-iconic-40-pt-duel-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/lebron-d-wades-iconic-40-pt-duel-20-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron &amp; D-Wade&#8217;s ICONIC 40-PT Duel (20 Years Later)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relive this instant classic as LeBron James and Dwyane Wade go head-to-head in one of the greatest duels of the <!--more--> 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, 2006, in Cleveland, two future legends put on a show \u2014 with LeBron dropping 47 points to lead the Cavaliers to a hard-fought win, while Wade answered with 44 points for the Heat in a back-and-forth battle from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a moment with the latest news, trending stories and highlights to bring you closer to your favorite players and teams.<br \/>\nDownload now \u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/nba.smart.link\/NBAApp-YTDes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/nba.smart.link\/NBAApp-YTDes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/on.nba.com\/2JX5gSN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/on.nba.com\/2JX5gSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relive this instant classic as LeBron James and Dwyane Wade go head-to-head in one of the greatest duels of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}