Having practiced American football when he was young, LeBron James always flirts with a potential retraining in this discipline. But a star of the circuit came to bring him brutally back to earth, making him in particular a very big circulation on NFL players.
And yes LeBron James hadn’t chosen to become a professional basketball player? 20 years after his debut in the NBA, the question may seem quite crazy. And yet, the orange ball isn’t the only sport the Lakers superstar played during his teenage years. During his high school career, he was also known to be excellent in American football, where he held the position of tight end in attack (heavy receiver).
In the end, the King opted for parquet rather than grass, but that didn’t mean he lost his passion for the discipline. On the contrary, he closely follows the Cleveland Browns in the NFL and regularly attends games on the side of the City of Angels. During his show The Shopthe quadruple champion also declared that the idea of re-threading the helmet and the protections still existed in a corner of his head:
Imagine @KingJames as a red zone threat ????
Looks like @iamjamiefoxx wants to see it!
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If I was in the last 20 yards of the field, like in a one-on-one where you have to put more people in the middle of the field and we have to line up a smaller cornerback on me… Throw the ball to me, it’s finished. (…) It always itchs me to play US football one day.
LeBron unable to play in NFL according to Jalen Ramsay
Inevitably, the words of the future Hall of Famer were going to react and precisely, a certain Jalen Ramsay was present during the show. Elite defender in the NFL on the side of the Rams of Los Angeles, this one on the contrary declared that LBJ would not have had the slightest chance. The winger may be physically strong, US football players are used to worse than that and moreover, the peers of the winner of the last Superbowl would share his opinion:
.@jalenramsey vs. @KingJames on the football field, who you got? ???? pic.twitter.com/QJhMt2QScY
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) November 18, 2022
Bron wouldn’t stand a chance in the NFL. Bron, let me tell you it like it is: you’d get punished. I would take care of you no problem. (…) Everyone in the NFL says the same thing: “Yeah, LeBron would get punished if he was with us in the league”. Everyone says you picked the right sport. Are you 2m06? It wouldn’t really be a problem. I’m faster than LeBron, too.
If LeBron James still had any hopes of ever playing in the NFL, Jalen Ramsay came to smash them for good. The cornerback is known for his constant trash-talking, but the fact that everyone in US football would think the same thing says a lot about the situation.
