This December 30, the star of the NBA, LeBron James, celebrates 36 years of a life full of successes in the best basketball in the world, with four league titles, four Most Valuable Player awards and two Olympic medals in his outstanding record.
During his career, which has been 18 years, he has shown his talent through Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat y Los Angeles Lakers, in all of them achieving the maximum recognition at the collective and individual level, inscribing his name in the golden books of history.
In a sports life of which almost everything is known, in Bolavip we want to publicize Five unknown facts about the life of LeBron James, who aspires to become the greatest player of all time in the NBA, and can sit at the table with the legends.
Five things you didn’t know about LeBron James
5.- The best in history … In the NFL?
The coach of Philadelphia 76ers, Doc Rivers, announced that “If LeBron James had played football, he might have been the best player ever to play”, since he played during his first three years in the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School de su natal Akron, Ohio, achieved impressive records, with a total of 99 receptions, 1,912 yards (average of 19.31 per catch) and 27 touchdowns.
4.- T-shirt numbers with meaning
During his career, both student and professional, LeBron James has worn two numbers on his jersey. The most recognized is 23, which according to legend is a tribute to his greatest idol, Michael Jordan; Meanwhile in Miami Heat and in the United States team he uses the 6, for their children, who were born on October 6 and July 6.
3.- The King who owns a giant of European football
It was one of the first big investments he made in his career. Since 2011 it has owned a percentage of the Liverpool of England, through your signature LRMR Branding & Marketing, shopping two percent of the shares for $ 6.5 million, when he played for the Miami Heat. Today his shares increased to $ 32 million.
2.- Constant work for his native Akron
LeBron James is proud to have been born in the small town of Akron, in the State of Ohio, and thanks to his success he has been able to help them, first by founding a school called “I Promise School”, where children at social risk attend, then through its foundation carrying out other activities, and now, with its new project House Three Thirty (House Three Thirty), a large space of 5,574 square meters, where financial education, job training and recreational activities will be offered
1.- From school to the NBA
In case more than one has passed it, James is one of the few players who went straight from high school to the best basketball in the world, emulating what figures of the stature of the world once did to enter the league Kevin Garnett y Kobe Bryant.
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