NBA - LeBron James is a Mama's Boy
One of the greatest players in the NBA at the moment, LeBron James, has recently announced that he will be moving to play with the Miami Heat. The two time most valuable player with the Cleveland Cavaliers was apparently wined and dined by six different teams that all wanted him to play with them. The young man who has become an international superstar in basketball will now be playing alongside an all star line up in Miami. The interesting part of this story is that his mother actually helped him make the decision to play with the Heat. What is next for the great basketball player, only time will tell.
LeBron James was drafted into the NBA straight from high school in 2003. He was so talented that he did not even need to go to college and he was snapped up before he could really mature. He grew up in the NBA playing basketball and earning millions. Since being drafted for his home town team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, as a first round pick, LeBron started to shine as soon as he got into the team's colours. He is such a phenomenal player that he has scored an average of 27.8 points per game in his career so far. How many points he scores at Miami is anyone's guess, but we can all safely bet that there will be lots and lots of them.
Only 25 years old, LeBron has many years left in his career and he is all set to make his mark with his new team. His saga started in high school when he was spotted for his phenomenal ability to score many points every game he played in. As a 17 year old high school student with one year left before he could graduate, he was already being compared to Michael Jordan. At the age of 17 he was scoring almost 30 points a game and was so impressive to the talent scouts for the NBA, that they wanted to sign him before he had even graduated. He was also in talks with a major shoe company to get a $20 million shoe deal when he was drafted into the NBA. At 17 years old most people are studying or partying, but this young man was being offered lucrative shoe deals and NBA contracts.
After a very successful career at the Cavaliers, LeBron decided to become a free agent and search for a team to play with. He left the Cavaliers and went looking for a team just as his one-time team mate Shaquille O'Neil did a few years before. The interesting thing here is that apparently six teams brought LeBron to their cities, took him wining and dining and showed him a good time. Basically they were trying to legally bribe him to come and play for them. This is very odd that these kinds of practises are allowed today; just imagine the power it gives the player, he can manipulate the teams and see what they are willing to offer in order to play for them. It is not a very good system but at the end of the day he chose Miami for a very different reason.
He decided to go to Miami after convincing ESPN, the massive sports network, to give him an hour long special to announce his decision. This is how famous the man is, that he can dictate to a major television network to give him a TV special. Well the reason why he wanted to go and play with the Heat was because he wanted to play with two of the top players in the league; Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. All three of them were drafted in the same year and they are the best players currently playing in the NBA. With LeBron joining their ranks some say the team might become unstoppable. He is apparently getting less money to play for Miami then he would have gotten had he stayed in Cleveland but it will still be some ridiculously high figure. When all is said and done it was a talk that he had with his mother that helped him decide that he wanted to move to Miami. The management at Miami should now be thanking LeBron's mother and taking her wining and dining.
What the future holds for this incredible basketball player no one knows. But what we do know is that if he can keep up his phenomenal stats, he will probably become the greatest player the NBA has ever known. Then he will really make his mama proud.
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