LeBron James
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Which Top 5 NBA Player Doesn't Want to Be on Shaqtin' a Fool?
An elite NBA player does not want to be taken for a fool, so much so that the player’s agent reportedly reached out to Shaquille O’Neal’s agent to demand that his player be left off of O’Neal’s popular blooper reel Shaqtin’ a Fool. Yep, that’s right; the player wants no parts of the blooper reel…
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LeBron James and Several Teammates Will Not Stay at Trump-Branded Hotels
Several Cleveland Cavaliers players, including LeBron James, are refusing to stay at the Trump Hotel in New York City, part of a trend among several NBA teams since Donald Trump was elected president in November. The Cavaliers have excused those players who have noted that they don’t want to stay in hotels owned by the…
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LeBron James Honors Muhammad Ali, Donates $2,500,000 to Smithsonian Exhibit
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., just got a king-size donation. On Thursday, King James, aka LeBron James, announced that he is giving the newly opened museum a $2.5 million donation to support an exhibit honoring Muhammad Ali, the Associated Press reports. “Every professional athlete, regardless of race…
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LeBron James Wears T-Shirt and Helps a Small Business’s Sales Skyrocket
It was only the biggest game in baseball history; the cursed Chicago Cubs were playing the Cleveland Indians in a World Series Game 7, and LeBron James was making a small clothing company famous. The camera panned to show King James and his wife, Savannah, in the stands, cheering for Cleveland and wearing shirts that…
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Meet Maverick Carter, LeBron James’ Real MVP
It’s pretty impossible not to know LeBron James, No. 2 on this year’s The Root 100 list of black Influencers. For over a decade now, the NBA’s other 23 has been working overtime, even ending his 13th basketball season with a first-ever NBA championship for his Cleveland Cavaliers and his third overall. Maverick Carter, who…
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LeBron James Endorses Hillary Clinton Because Who Else Was He Going to Endorse? Willie Wilson?
Everyone can settle down now and stop the speculation that three-time NBA champion and four-time NBA MVP LeBron James was thinking about going another route with his vote for president. On Sunday the Cleveland Cavaliers star forward made it official, with an op-ed posted by Business Insider, that he will be voting for Hillary Clinton…
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Cavs Coach Ty Lue Explains How He Got His Millionaire Players to Care About $4,500
Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue took a page out of Doc Rivers’ book to help LeBron and nem walk away with the world championship. So the story goes, the Cavs were down 3-1 and the sky was mad gloomy (no word on what the sky looked like, but it adds drama to the story).…
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LeBron James Tells Media, 'All Lives Matter'; Will Stand for Anthem
LeBron James fully supports Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling protest against the over-policing of black and minority communities but adds that when the NBA season starts, he plans to stand for the national anthem. “First of all, I’m all in favor of anyone—athlete or nonathlete—being able to express what they believe in in a peaceful manner,” James…