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LeBron James
Date of birth: 30.12.1984.
Height: 203 cm.
Weight: 113 kg.
Main role: forward.
He plays in the following positions: attacking defender (SG), light forward (SF).
He plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers club (Cleveland)
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Biography
Date of birth: 30.12.1984
Height: 203 cm.
Weight: 113 kg.
Main role: defender.
He plays in the following positions: point guard, shooting guard, light forward.
National team player ( USA).
He plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers club (Cleveland) .
James surpassed the record of Kobe Bryant, who scored nine thousand points, being a year and a half older.
Everyone was looking forward to the arrival of LeBron James in the NBA, and they had been waiting for several years.
And if it were not for the age restriction of the Association (a player cannot nominate for the draft until he turns 18), then, undoubtedly, LeBron appeared in the NBA a year or even two earlier.
David Stern did not want to change the League's constitution for a basketball prodigy, so it remained only to watch James smash his school rivals on the playground.
Ignoring the rules of the NBA, the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, John Lucas, invited the 17 year old phenomenon to train with the team before the start of the 2002-03 season.
And Lucas was not even confused by the fine of 150 thousand dollars and the suspension for two games.
After all, he got acquainted with the possible future of his team!
This future has butchered some negligent Cleveland players, scoring a couple of times from above through the hands of Chris Meem and Jumaine Jones, as well as distributing several mind boggling "blind" passes.
LeBron reached the 10,000 points mark at the age of 23 years and 59 days, while the previous record holder, Kobe Bryant, did it when he was 24 years and 193 days old.
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Cleveland forward LeBron James was recognized as the most useful player of the season in the NBA, AP reports, citing an anonymous source inside the league.
Recall that with his direct participation, the Cavaliers won the 2008/09 regular season, guaranteeing themselves the advantage of their site in all rounds of the playoffs.
For the 24 year old basketball player, this season was the sixth in the strongest league in the world.
His averages in 81 matches were 28.4 points (the second result of the season), 7.6 rebounds and 7.2 assists.
James became the first representative of "Cleveland", awarded the main individual title of the NBA.
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Childhood and youth
From his early school years, James was the object of constant attention of the American media, who praised him as a future NBA star.
In 2003, he was selected in the NBA draft at number 1 by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
James was 18 years old at the time, and he became the second player in the history of the association to be selected immediately after school in the draft at number one.
LeBron's childhood was spent in constant traveling from place to place, which greatly prevented him from studying at school and making friends.
The only thing that has always been with young James is basketball, which, like American football, showed itself quite early.
Subsequently, LeBron's football coach Frank Walker sheltered his ward at home, thereby ending his endless moves and skipping school.
LeBron became friends with Walker's son, Frankie Jr., and with other guys who loved basketball: Sian Cotton, Drew Joyce, Willie McGee and Romeo Travis.
Together, they made their school team one of the best in the state.
LeBron himself was head and shoulders above his partners, both literally and figuratively.
By the eighth grade, he had grown to 185 cm, could play in all five positions and, according to his coach, had a basketball sixth sense.
Less than a year later, LeBron's team reached the final of the national championship among eighth graders.
It was then that they first started talking about James as a future basketball star.
LeBron became a full fledged star in the Akron St. Vincent — St. Mary team, from where he was drafted into the NBA.
Gradually, he became so popular that his matches in the junior team were even shown on national television.
An interesting story happened to him once — while training in the gym, he broke the ring during another slam dunk and fell with it on the parquet.
Seeing that the ring was broken, the headmaster of the school where James was training rushed to him and tried to take the ring away.
The director realized that the ring, broken by LeBron himself, is a lot of money.
The prodigy's father thought the same thing and rushed to the ring from the other side.
The headmaster of the school, after much wrangling, gave up the ring to LeBron's father only for six balls signed by the star.
In 2003, James put himself up for the draft.
As he himself admitted, he had no doubts whether to go or not to go to the NBA.
"Cleveland Cavaliers", knowing about such a talent, even gave their key basketball player Miller in the middle of the season in order to take the last place at the end of the season and have more chances to get a young talent for themselves.
It is also worth mentioning that James had serious competitors in the draft, among them the 2006 NBA champion Dwyane Wade, the leader of the Denver Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony, the leader of the Toronto Raptors, Chris Bosh, the key breeding of the Chicago Bulls, Chris Heinrick.
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NBA Career
Ignoring the rules of the NBA, the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, John Lucas, invited the 17 year old phenomenon to train with the team before the start of the 2002-03 season.
And Lucas was not even confused by the fine of 150 thousand dollars and the suspension for two games.
After all, he got acquainted with the possible future of his team!
This future has butchered some negligent Cleveland players, scoring a couple of times from above through the hands of Chris Meem and Jumaine Jones, as well as distributing several mind boggling "blind" passes.
In Cleveland, James immediately became the leader and soul of the team.
With him, the team played with new colors and gained new fans around the world.
Moreover, the young star pleased her fans not only with incredible slam dunks and assists, but also with the withdrawal of her club to the NBA finals.
Every year, moments with his participation fall into the top ten at the end of the year in the NBA, but this is not what motivates the young basketball player the most.
First of all, he, like any professional basketball player, wants to see a gold ring with the inscription "Champion"on his hand.
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