The biography of LeBron James, told by Davide Chinellato, is released on Wednesday 3 June in the bookstore and in the online stores of King. From the very difficult childhood of a child abandoned by his father and with a teenage mother to the billion dollar contracts, from the high school beginnings from Fated to friendship with Kobe Bryant, from the four NBA titles with three different teams up to the last seasons in the Lakers, from social commitment and in Black Lives Matter to the controversy with Donald Trump: the story of a unique athlete. On the parquet and outside.
“Meeting Michael Jordan was like meeting Jesus. It was like he was walking in the air as he came towards me. For a kid from Akron, with no money, no close father, who needed inspiration, Jordan was the man. I wanted to shoot like him, wear shoes like him. And I wanted the boys to look at me one day with the same eyes with which I looked at him ».
Even if LeBron will never say it about himself, even if for him the best will always remain Air Jordan, a former NBA star like Isiah Thomas has no doubts: it is King James the Goat, the greatest ever.
«Because we have never had a player who can combine dominance on the court with everything else like LeBron. For the first aspect there are the statistics, and the numbers never lie: no one has had his yield and his consistency in every aspect of the game. Just as no one had done what he did for communities in difficulty. “
For all these reasons LeBron James is unique. The child abandoned by his father and with a mother still sixteen, who spent his difficult childhood (wandering between sofas and rented rooms, until being taken into foster care by the coach of the local football team, has not only become the best to the world in his sport, basketball, a unique player, the Chosen One, but also a man who has committed his sporting image to fight social injustices, always putting his face on it.
Here they tell it and it tells itself, it tells of its unstoppable strength: «One day I said to myself: if you are so tired that you no longer feel your legs, keep running; and if you feel you are dying, run even faster ». Sure that the best for him, on the court and in life, is yet to come.
“I will never be silent in the face of injustices, and I will not limit myself to just talking about sports, as some would claim. I am part of the community. I am interested in my people, in racism, in society as a whole. IS
I am aware of how powerful my voice is, and how helpful it can be. “
Lebron James was born in Akron, Ohio on December 30, 1984. He is the absolute star of world basketball.
He is the first ever to be elected best player of the NBA Finals with three teams
several: Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers. In October 2020 he won with i
Lakers the fourth ring of his career. He is the protagonist of the film Space Jam. A New Legacy (Warner
Bros, 2021). He has beaten countless records and is considered one of the greatest basketball players of any era.
Davide Chinellato has been the NBA signature of the Gazzetta dello sport since 2012. Leads NBA in 24 seconds
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In 2016, he became the first non-US journalist to vote for the MVP of the NBA Finals, the National Basketball Association award for the best player in the series that awards the title. Lebron James has won that award four times.
From June 3, 2021 – 336 pp. + 16 pp. of color photos – € 19.50 – ISBN 9791280229113
