"Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up. I sometimes feel like I’m their son. Their passion can be overwhelming. But it drives me. I want to give them hope when I can. I want to inspire them when I can. My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn’t realize that four years ago. I do now." Read full letter at SI.com
If you are a fan of fan of Lebron James and have a Samsung Galaxy S 5, Samsung Galaxy S 4, Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 or Samsung Galaxy Note II, the Miami Heat MVP just released his own app.
The Samsung produced mobile app features all things LBJ including, stats from games, behind-the-scenes of Lebron's life and a radio that plays his favorite song.
You know the Cavaliers’ Irving is on his way to being the best PG in the game in a couple years, he can light it up. You know on any given night Robinson, now a Nugget, can fill it up going against some of the best athletes on the planet. So put them in a defense-free pro-am and…
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?-- Probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com
As Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," WKNR SportsNight hosts Kenny Roda and Michael Reghi busts a move or two with volunteers from the Cleveland Clinic during the 2013 ESPN Cleveland Radio-thon.
(Via Pepsi) "Uncle Drew visits with a basketball
legend who sends him on a mission to go out and get his old team back
together. His first stop ---- Los Angeles, CA. Players and spectators at
the basketball court were told that they would be filmed for some
"basketball b-roll footage" for a local TV station. Put it this way:
these young bloods had no idea what was coming"
In their new Samsung smart phone commercial, the telecommunications company partnered with the the LeBron James Family Foundation (LJFF) Wheels for Education program.
The "I Promise" program which inspires kids across the U.S. to make a promise to stay in school featured students from Akron elementary schools Crouse CLC, Findley CLC and Schumacher CLC in the The Samsung Galaxy Note II commercial. www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileUSA
(Via TMZ) LeBron James' mother slapped a Miami Beach valet so hard in the face, she lost her balance and fell to the ground -- then told a police officer, "I don't trust your kind" ... this according to the police report.
The arresting officer says he tried to question 43-year-old Gloria James about the alleged incident at the scene early this morning ... but he got "no response just a stare." After a while, she eventually admitted to having a "minor verbal altercation" with the valet.
The cop says the valet explained that he retrieved James' car and put it on the valet ramp in front of the hotel while Gloria and a female driver stood around talking to people for 30 minutes. Finally, the valet says he turned the car off.
The valet says Gloria then approached him and stated, "Where are my f**king keys and continued yelling profanities at the victim."
The report explains, "Then for no apparent reason the arrestee struck the victim with an open had [sic] across the right side of his face and in the process causing herself to lose her balance and falling to the ground."
After Gloria was transported to a nearby police station, the report continues, a shift commander -- Lt. Acosta -- tried to speak with James who responded, "I'm trying to trust you but I don't trust your kind ... I don't trust that officer who arrested me."
Gloria then told police she "was not going to cooperate because she did nothing wrong."
Appearing on ESPN Radio 103.3 FM in Dallas/Fort Worth, TNT analyst responded to Miami Heat's Lebron James tweet where he said he was taking "mental notes" of everyone who criticized this summer.
Barkley:
" "I heard about LeBron James’ little tweet…He’s making a list of people that said something bad about him. Well, I want to make sure my name is on that list, because I thought that little one-hour special was a punk move. I thought them dancing on stage was a punk move…Him joining Dwayne Wade’s team was disappointing to me…
"He's got enough people kissing his ass with his family and all the people who work for him," Barkley said. "We don't have to tell him what he wants to hear all the time. That's one of the reasons why ... some of these young guys ... my opinion is he should have stayed in Cleveland.
If he wants to take that as criticism, so be it. He know where I be. I’m easy to find. I’m on TV every week."
"I'm not a baby mama. There's a lot more to me than that," says Savannah Brinson the long time girlfriend of Lebron James.
This month the usual media shy Brinson is featured in the latest issue of Harper's Bazzar, where she talks about variety of topics including number 6's decision to move the family from Akron/Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat:
"Personally, Miami was not my favorite place. Vacationing there is great: You go for three days and get some sun, and it's time to go home," she explains. But the weather helped win her over. "When they told me it doesn't get any colder than 50 degrees, that sold me. ...."It will definitely be an adjustment, but we'll make it."
"That's why we have free agency," he told Dakich. "When you get an opportunity to get an open market, anything can happen. I'm like a lot of people. I'd like to have seen LeBron stay in Cleveland but his desire was to go play with some great players and try to win championships. You've got to do what's best for yourself. He's a very, very talented young man, a great basketball player and he wanted to go play with Wade and Bosh. He had the ability to do that and he did it.
"I remember back in my days, I'd rather play against Earvin Johnson than play with him," he said. "I know he's a great player and you always want to play with the best but I just loved to compete against him. He's a guy I always compared myself to. I'd rather stay in Boston and let him stay in L.A. and just compete every year in the Finals. That's what made me a better player. It would've been too easy if we played together."
At 9PM, Lebron James will make “The Decision”about his free agency on ESPN.
Interviewer Jim Gray is looking over the choreographed questions that King James’ crew gave him minutes earlier, however Mr. Gray has a few zingers in his back pocket to throw LBJ off his TV structured game.
If you had a chance to talk to Lebron James before he goes live on air, what would you say to him?
