Posts Tagged ‘lebron james’

LeBron James chose to go play for the Miami ‘Heat’ today. According to the Washington Post, small forward/guard star LeBron James is now a former Cleveland Cavalier as he has chosen to go play for the Miami Heat earlier today. They say that LeBron has just ended nearly two days of speculation by choosing to sign with the Miami Heat.

LeBron made his announcement in an interview with Jim Gray at a local Boys and Girls Club in Greenwich,Connecticuit during a one hour primetime special on ESPN. Up until now, LeBron spent his entire career in Cleveland,and led the franchise to its only NBA Finals appearance back in 2007,and also won two NBA MVP awards. LeBron had previously met with six teams in Cleveland during the first three days of the free agent negotiating period. Read the rest of this entry »

As we reported yesterday and is also being reported today on Yahoo ! Sports, Lebron James got dunked on yesterday by a high school sophomore player at Xavier named Jordan Crawford in a pick up game at a basketball camp sponsored by Nike called the LeBron James Skills Academy.

However, it’s being reported that Lebron called Nike Basketball Senior Director Lynn Merritt over and told him something. A few minutes later all the tapes of the dunk on Lebron were confiscated.

So it definitely looks like Lebron didn’t want the video getting out so he told a Nike Official to get the tapes. I’m hoping somebody got it on video and was able to sneak out with their copy. Lets cross our fingers. Read the rest of this entry »

“Piped” is an old school word we used back in the day for the “slam dunk” word which is exactly what is being reported by manolith.com. They say high schooler Jordan Crawford dunked on NBA superstar LeBron James in pick up game at a basketball training camp known as the LeBron James Skills Academy which is sponsored by Nike.

The camp gives high school basketball stars a chance to train with the best. They report that the footage of Jordan Crawford dunking on LeBron was indeed filmed,but they report that LeBron talked with Nike’s Basketball Senior Director,Lynn Merritt.

Then Merritt approached seven of the cameramen and took their tapes. Awww, looks like LeBron’s pride got the better of him with this one. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently,there will be a “LeBron James : The Movie” coming out in late 2009. Kristopher Belman was a real visionary with this one as he started filming a documentary on LeBron back in 1999 when he was playing in high school back at St. Vincent-St. Mary’s High School. Actually,the documentary was on the whole basketball team,but of course it went on to feature LeBron James a student at, Loyola Marymount University who of course has now gone on to make millions as a professional basketball player in the NBA. The Movie will be titled, “More Than a Game”. The film will be distributed by Lionsgate and the documentary has already premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.