Numbers don’t lie
Some facts>
MVP: 2012, 2010, 2009
Rookie of the year: 2004
Final MVP: 2012
All-NBA- 1st team: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006
All-NBA 2nd team: 2007, 2005
All-Rookie 1st team: 2004
All- Defensive 1st team: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2005
All-Star MVP: 2008, 2006
I can’t help but think that King James, like other black athletes, view
the sports arena as a place of complete freedom for self-determination, a state reserves for white males outside the arena. James sometimes looks as if he wears a fixed smile to cover his cynicism over fame and fortune. It seems he is cursed with ambivalence; he is applauded as a gladiator in the stadium yet treated like a pariah outside it.
His childhood could have emotionally crucified him. For most urban youth such an impoverished life would have led to jail or an early death.
It was a wretched dehumanizing world that Lebron James was born into on a cold day in December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio.
His mother, Gloria Marie James was only 16-years old when he was born. Growing up in extremis poverty, trapped in despair, hungry and cold. Gloria raised James by herself. Never gaining steady work, led to the two of them moving around virtually homeless frequently.