LeBron Thanks Akron for Support in Front Page Ad; Snubs Cleveland

Fresh from the "Are you still talking?" file, LeBron James placed a front page ad in the Akron Beacon Journal, his hometown paper, just days before making his first public appearance there since his ESPN announcement gone wrong. He wrote,Β "Akron is my home, and the central focus of my life." He continued, "It's where I…

Fresh from the "Are you still talking?" file, LeBron James placed a front page ad in the Akron Beacon Journal, his hometown paper, just days before making his first public appearance there since his ESPN announcement gone wrong. He wrote,Β "Akron is my home, and the central focus of my life." He continued, "It's where I started, and it's where I will always come back to." Absent from the advertisement was any mention of Cleveland. Ouch. We guess some things are better left unsaid.

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