THE HERD – HOUR 1 – LeBron Returns To Cleveland, Messi Greatest Athlete EVER?!
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Is LeBron James returning home… again?! Colin Cowherd believes LeBron will eventually announce his decision to sign with the Cavaliers for next season over Warriors and 76ers but is struggling to finalize the decision due to Cleveland’s shortcomings.
Colin looks at Lionel Messi leading Argentina back to the World Cup Final at 39 years old and reveals the secret to his greatness that is similar to Tom Brady.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Thanks for listening to The Heard podcast. |
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| 0:24.2 | Now let's get this party started. |
| 0:26.2 | You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:31.4 | Here we go. It's Friday. |
| 0:33.3 | Been a heck of a week. |
| 0:34.3 | Bill Belichick in an hour, I'm told he's going to stop by media days, ACC, North Carolina, trying to build something special there. Greg Burhalter stops by. Maurice Hadoo. We have had a great week. John Middlough filmed in again today for Jay Mack. I'm going on vacay after this, so let's end it strong here. We're in the red zone. Let's punch it in here on a Friday. So I thought today, in fact, I thought late yesterday, LeBron James would make up his mind where he's going. And now you're seeing quotes is he's going to do it next week. So it's interesting. He's had two months since the Lakers season ended. And let's be honest, it's not like the draft changes the NBA. Even if you got Wemby, when Wemby went to the Spurs, they didn't win one more game as rookie year. So the draft is irrelevant. There are some free agent moves. Yonest to Miami makes Miami much more interesting, but they lost a lot |
| 1:28.8 | doing that as well. A lot of rotational players, Tyler Hero draft picks. So I'm sitting there thinking |
| 1:33.3 | to myself, I'm reading his quotes yesterday. He was being interviewed by people in New York |
| 1:40.0 | and he keeps bringing up his kids. And I'm like, so Cleveland, he has a house there. |
| 1:47.1 | His mom is there. |
| 1:49.7 | Nothing moms love more than hanging out with grandkids. |
| 1:53.5 | All moms do. |
| 1:54.4 | They live for it. |
| 1:55.7 | He won a title there. |
| 1:57.0 | Brandon Weems is a buddy is in the front office for the Cavaliers. |
| 2:01.5 | They got to the Eastern Conference Finals last year. |
| 2:06.1 | Two months to mull it over and he still hasn't chosen Cleveland. |
| 2:09.5 | Why? Because even when you're from Cleveland, it's hard to pick Cleveland. |
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