54 Fun Facts About Lebron

Which future Miami Heat teammate of LeBron James was picked fourth, by Toronto, in the same 2003 NBA draft?

Chris Bosh went fourth to the Raptors, three picks after James; seven years later Toronto sent him to Miami in a sign-and-trade the same week James chose the Heat.

What does LeBron James famously toss into the air in his pregame ritual?

Chalk: the toss became his trademark in Cleveland and featured in a 2008 television commercial; he dropped it for more than two years in Miami before bringing it back in 2013.

LeBron James won which individual award in all four of his NBA championship seasons, 2012 to 2020?

Finals MVP went to James in 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2020, with three different teams; in 2016 the vote was unanimous after Cleveland recovered from 3–1 down.

In which city did LeBron James win his third Olympic gold medal, as the tournament's MVP, at age 39?

Paris: twelve years after his previous Olympics, James carried the US flag at the opening ceremony and led the team to a fifth straight gold, beating France in the final.

LeBron James scored his 40,000th NBA point in March 2024 against which team, the reigning champions?

Denver Nuggets: the milestone came on a spinning layup in a 124–114 home loss, and James said he hated that it had to happen in defeat.

Which NBA award did LeBron James win in 2004, becoming the first Cleveland Cavaliers player ever to receive it?

Rookie of the Year went to James after he averaged 20.9 points for a team that had won just 17 games the season before he arrived; with him, Cleveland won 35.

Which player won the 2011 MVP award, interrupting LeBron James's run of four wins in five seasons?

Derrick Rose, 22, became the youngest MVP in NBA history; James, the winner in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013, slipped to third in the voting in his first season with Miami.

LeBron James posted a triple-double in his first NBA playoff game against which team, one Cleveland eliminated three years running?

Washington Wizards: James had 32 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in that 2006 opener, then hit the winning baskets in Games 3 and 5 as Cleveland took the series.

What nickname has followed LeBron James through his entire NBA career?

Akron took it literally: South Main Street downtown was renamed King James Way.

Which Akron high school did LeBron James play for before jumping straight to the NBA?

St. Vincent–St. Mary moved home games to the University of Akron's arena to fit the crowds, and a cable company sold his senior-year games on pay-per-view, though it lost money on them.

What position is LeBron James primarily listed as playing?

Small forward is his usual listing, but he runs the offence so often that he is called a 'point forward', and in 2019–20 he led the whole NBA in assists.

Which jersey number has LeBron James most famously worn for the majority of his career?

He chose 23 as a tribute to his idol Michael Jordan, who retired for the last time in 2003, the year James entered the NBA.

LeBron James reportedly made more than $30 million from his stake in which headphone maker when it was sold in 2014?

Beats Electronics gave James a small stake at its 2008 launch in return for promoting the headphones, so Apple's $3 billion purchase reportedly earned him more than $30 million.

LeBron James was the first-ever winner of which award?

NBA Cup MVP went to James after the Lakers beat Indiana in the first final, yet nothing he did that night counts in his career totals, because the title game sits outside the regular season.

LeBron James scored 48 points, including Cleveland's last 25, to win a 2007 double-overtime playoff game against which team?

Detroit Pistons: he scored 29 of Cleveland's final 30 points in that 109–107 win, and the Cavaliers closed out the series in the next game to reach their first NBA Finals.

What is the production company co-founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter called?

SpringHill takes its name from the apartment complex in Akron, Ohio, where James grew up.

What is LeBron James's middle name?

Raymone is his middle name; his mother Gloria had him at 16, and when he was a boy she let him live with a youth football coach's family so he would have a stable home.

Which company won the bidding war for LeBron James's shoe deal before he played an NBA game?

Nike signed James to a seven-year deal worth about $90 million a month before the 2003 draft, although ESPN reported that Reebok had actually offered more.

What is the name of the public school that LeBron James's foundation helped open in his hometown in 2018?

I Promise School opened with at-risk third and fourth graders; James himself missed more than 80 days of fourth grade before coaches and a host family steadied him.

Which team beat LeBron James's Cavaliers in the 2007 NBA Finals?

San Antonio Spurs won all four games, an abrupt end for a 22-year-old who had just carried Cleveland to the first NBA Finals in the franchise's history.

LeBron James and his partners turned a sub-$1 million stake in which restaurant chain into about $25 million by 2017?

Blaze Pizza took less than $1 million from James and his partners in 2012; three years later he walked away from a McDonald's deal with $14 million left on it to promote the chain.

Which longtime friend of LeBron James became his agent and negotiated his 2018 move to the Lakers?

Rich Paul met James at an Ohio airport in 2002 while wearing a throwback jersey James admired, joined his inner circle, and founded Klutch Sports in 2012 with James as a client.

In 2008 LeBron James became the first Black man on the cover of which magazine?

LeBron James appeared on Vogue's April 2008 cover with Gisele Bündchen; critics, including ESPN's Jemele Hill, said the pose echoed King Kong imagery.

After LeBron James returned to Cleveland in 2014, the Cavaliers traded top draft pick Andrew Wiggins for which All-Star forward?

Kevin Love arrived from Minnesota six weeks after James's return, and two years later he, James and Kyrie Irving delivered Cleveland's first NBA title.

In 2008 LeBron James passed which player as the Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer?

Brad Daugherty scored his 10,389 points in 548 games before a back injury ended his career; James passed him in just 380, at the age of 23.

Which team did LeBron James's Miami Heat beat in the 2012 NBA Finals for his first championship?

Oklahoma City Thunder won the opening game, but Miami took the next four, and James finished the series with a triple-double a year after losing his first Finals with the Heat.

LeBron James is a partner in Fenway Sports Group, the owner of the Boston Red Sox and which English soccer club?

Liverpool: James took a small stake in the club in a 2011 marketing deal with Fenway, ten years before he became a partner in the whole group.

What jersey number did LeBron James wear with the Miami Heat?

LeBron James wore 6 with the Heat: he had filed to switch to it while still in Cleveland, as a tribute to Michael Jordan, and Miami had retired his usual number for Jordan in any case.

LeBron James became the NBA's all-time leading scorer, surpassing which legendary player?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had held the record since April 1984, months before James was born, and sat courtside in February 2023 to hand him the game ball.

Which team did LeBron James's Cavaliers beat in the 2016 NBA Finals?

Golden State Warriors had won a record 73 games and led the series 3–1, but Cleveland became the first team to overturn that deficit in the Finals, ending the city's 52-year title drought.

Which magazine billed LeBron James as 'The Chosen One' on its cover when he was a high school junior?

Sports Illustrated's cover made the 17-year-old a national sensation; the next season ESPN2 televised one of his high school games nationally and drew more than 1.6 million homes.

LeBron James won his only NBA scoring title in 2007–08, finishing ahead of which runner-up, that season's MVP?

Kobe Bryant averaged 28.3 points to James's 30.0 and took the MVP award instead; it remains the only scoring title of the NBA's all-time leading scorer.

During the 2011 NBA lockout, which NFL team's offer did LeBron James seriously consider?

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sent LeBron James a contract during the 2011 lockout; the Seattle Seahawks made an offer too, and he later said he gave the idea real thought.

Which Cavaliers owner attacked LeBron James in an open letter to fans when he left for Miami in 2010?

Dan Gilbert's letter, posted in Comic Sans, called the move a 'cowardly betrayal' and promised Cleveland a title before James won one; the NBA fined him $100,000.

LeBron James became the first active NBA player to reach what financial milestone?

Billionaire status came in June 2022, by Forbes's count; that same month James said he wanted to own an NBA team in Las Vegas, a plan he had dropped by 2026.

Which Miami Heat executive played a major role in persuading LeBron James to join the team in 2010?

Pat Riley, the Heat's president, built the roster that reached the next four NBA Finals, and he shared the league's Executive of the Year award for 2010–11.

Which player was LeBron James's teammate with both the Heat and the Cavaliers?

Dwyane Wade spent four seasons beside LeBron James in Miami and rejoined him in Cleveland for 2017-18 before being traded back to the Heat.

Which star, traded to the Lakers in 2019, helped turn LeBron James into the NBA's assists leader for the first time?

Anthony Davis arrived from New Orleans, James moved to point guard at 35 and averaged a league-best 10.2 assists, and the pair won the NBA title that season.

What is the name of LeBron James' oldest son, who is also a basketball player?

Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest at a college practice in July 2023, yet 15 months later he and LeBron became the first father and son to play in an NBA game together.

LeBron James's 2009 memoir about his high school team, later made into a film, has which title?

Shooting Stars, written with Buzz Bissinger, shares its name with the youth AAU team where James first played beside his future high school teammates; the film followed in 2023.

LeBron James's production company agreed in 2024 to merge with which British production firm?

Fulwell 73 and LeBron's company combined in a merger of equals with no money changing hands, which made Fulwell partner James Corden one of his business partners.

LeBron James's run of eight straight NBA Finals began in 2011 with a defeat by which team?

Dallas Mavericks, led by Dirk Nowitzki, beat Miami in James's first season there; he then reached the next seven Finals too, winning three of them.

What position did LeBron James play in high school football?

As a wide receiver James was recruited by Notre Dame assistant Urban Meyer, who watched his game film and wanted to offer him on the spot, unaware he was a basketball prodigy.

LeBron James scored a career-high 61 points in 2014 against which team?

LeBron James scored 61 against the Charlotte Bobcats on March 3, 2014, hitting eight three-pointers; the franchise became the Hornets that summer.

Which country won the 2004 Olympic men's basketball gold, leaving LeBron James's United States team with bronze?

Argentina, led by Manu Ginóbili, beat the United States in the semi-finals; it was the first American team of NBA players to miss Olympic gold, and James, 19, spent most of the tournament on the bench.

Whom did LeBron James marry in San Diego in 2013?

Savannah Brinson had been with James since their high school days; he proposed at a party on New Year's Eve 2011, the night after his 27th birthday.

Which coach led LeBron James's Cavaliers to the 2016 NBA title?

Tyronn Lue took over in January 2016 when Cleveland fired David Blatt despite a 30–11 record, and five months later he coached the franchise to its first championship.

LeBron James reached 12,000 career assists in 2026, joining John Stockton, Jason Kidd and which other point guard?

Chris Paul ranked second on the career list at the time; James reached the mark with a full-court pass against Phoenix in April 2026, late in his 23rd NBA season.

LeBron James announced his move to the Miami Heat in a television special with what title?

'The Decision' aired live on ESPN from a Boys & Girls Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was widely criticised as grandiose; James later said he regretted how he handled it.

What is LeBron James's team called in the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy?

Tune Squad is the name Bugs Bunny's side also used in the 1996 original with Michael Jordan; in the sequel James assembles it to beat the Goon Squad and win back his son.

In which city did LeBron James win his first Olympic gold medal?

Beijing was where the 2008 'Redeem Team' earned its nickname by making up for the bronze of 2004, beating Spain 118–107 in the final.

Which of these players was drafted in the same NBA Draft class as LeBron James?

Carmelo Anthony went third in that 2003 draft, fresh from winning a national title as a Syracuse freshman; James, picked first, went on to outlast everyone else in the class.

Which coach did LeBron James play under as an NBA rookie?

Paul Silas was hired to mentor the 18-year-old LeBron James, but a new owner fired him in March 2005 with the team 34–30 and installed assistant Brendan Malone as interim coach.

LeBron James made his NBA debut against which team?

Sacramento Kings. The 18-year-old LeBron James led his team in both points and assists that night, yet they still lost 106–92 on the road.