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07-27-2006, 09:35 AM
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It is clear from his birth certificate that LeBron's real father was Joey Ramone.
         
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07-27-2006, 12:33 PM
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Lichter + BB programs? Does it make too much sense?
I truly hope that Lichter is leveraged as a "consultant" for tOSU basketball programs.
S&C has never been an asset to the men's or women's program. Maybe that will fall under his "Director of Performance" responsibilities.
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10-31-2006, 11:28 AM
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LeBron James wows 'Daily Show' in Ohio By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James wowed the crowd ? and Jon Stewart ? Monday during a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" at Ohio State University. Show host Stewart leaped onto a table to greet James, who still stood nearly as tall as the comedian, and the two shook hands. Stewart raved about James' unstoppable basketball career, and his superstar status at age 21, asking at one point: "I don't mean to be rude, but are you an alien creature?" James told Stewart that he was always taller than other kids and, when he was 14 or 15, he realized he could do things better than other basketball players. Stewart asked James if anything ? even kryptonite ? could stop him. "At this point I'm not sure anything can stop me," James said. Looking for something to beat him at, Stewart challenged James to a game of rock-paper-scissors. James got paper; Stewart got rock. The taping at the university's Roy Bowen Theatre was the first in the popular news parody's week of broadcasts from Ohio for its "Midwest Midterm Midtacular," the show's fifth outside New York in 10 years. Taped to air later Monday, the episode poked fun at Ohio's penchant for high school football and high-fat chain restaurant food, with one correspondent noting Ohio is "round on the ends and high-cholesterol in the middle." Unfazed, the mostly student crowd periodically threw an "O-H" and an "I-O" into the air, even as the show mocked the beloved ritual. When Stewart asked James where he would have played college basketball if he'd gone to college, he said Ohio State and the crowd roared. Following the taping, James said he's recently agreed to appear on shows like Stewart's and "The Late Show with David Letterman" for the first time because he's matured and wants to show people another side of himself. "I just got a little older," he said. "You're 18 and you want to rip and roar." When he has contact with college life, like at the recent Ohio State-Texas game, he sometimes wishes he had gone to college, where he would have majored in business marketing. "But at the end of the day I don't regret any of my decisions," he said.
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10-31-2006, 11:37 AM
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James on 'Daily Show,' shows he is more than king of court Gerrick Lewis  Media Credit: Kevin Fitzsimons/Comedy CentralJon Stewart greets LeBron James, of the Cleveland Cavaliers on The Daily Show yesterday at The Drake Union. LeBron James, King James or The Chosen One (whichever you prefer) is known for his quick moves on the court. He was Jon Stewart's first guest on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," where the 21-year-old, who is in his fourth professional year as a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers, sat down with The Lantern for an intimate Q&A. The Lantern: Going off what you said earlier, that if you would have had to choose a school it would have been Ohio State, what would you major in if you came here? LJ: Business marketing. That's something that I'm doing. I'm a business and I'm a businessman. TL: When you come to a campus like this do you ever wish you had gone to college? LJ: Sometimes, especially when I went to the Ohio State-Texas football game. The first game of the season in Texas. I would have played basketball and football if I came here, but I have never regretted any decision I've made. TL: With the election coming around, how do you use your platform to get the people you inspire out to the polls? LJ: I use my word. I use myself. I don't change for nobody - I never have and I never will. I am myself and it has worked thus far. TL: Recently you haven't been doing appearances like this. What has changed your mind? LJ: I just got a little older. These are good for the public because they get to see me differently than on the court. Guys like Dave Letterman and Jon, I sit down and watch. I enjoy their shows. You're not going to see me on something that I don't enjoy. TL: Do you follow politics? LJ: Not until the presidential race comes up. As far as politics on a day to day basis, no I don't.
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11-01-2006, 08:04 AM
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Dispatch
KINGPIN LeBron James isn?t making any bones about it: His goal this season is to win an NBA title. And many think that it?s not an idle boast. Wednesday, November 01, 2006 By James Walker THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH  JAY LAPRETE ASSOCIATED PRESS LeBron James, grabbing a rebound against Sheldon Williams of Atlanta, was second in the NBA in minutes played last season.    MARK DUNCAN ASSOCIATED PRESS LeBron James has his sights set on an NBA title as the Cleveland Cavaliers open their 2006-07 season tonight. CLEVELAND ? LeBron James is all grown up, but his evolution continues. The former prodigy who took the Ohio prep ranks by storm is now a 21-yearold international superstar seeking his first NBA title. His quest begins tonight when the Cleveland Cavaliers open the regular season in Quicken Loans Arena against the Washington Wizards. Every year James has elevated his game, his statistics steadily rising and taking the Cavaliers with them. James has the large contract extension (three years, $47 million) to show for it. So what?s in store for his fourth year in the league? "I think we can win it all. We just have to play well," James said. "The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing. "There?s no reason to play in the NBA if you don?t believe you can win it all." Mike Brown said he isn?t afraid of the title talk. "We talked about the big trophy last year," Brown said. "We just didn?t say it out loud." Brown thought he knew all he needed to know about James when he took the job as Cavaliers coach. He did his research. He asked around the league and broke down the statistics. But coaching James for a full season in 2005-06 still surprised him. "He?s a bigger and better leader than I imagined," Brown said. "And he?s more talented than I imagined. More importantly, the sky is the limit for that man on both sides of the floor and off the court." James? capacity to lead was once a major question. He came into the league in 2003 as an 18-year-old wanting to fit in without causing a stir, despite having more natural ability than veterans 10 years his senior. He often deferred to teammates as a rookie. James told the media it was Zydrunas Ilgauskas? and Ricky Davis? team. Then the Cavaliers sent James a message, trading Davis to Boston. James emerged with a late-season charge, and Cleveland fell one game short of making the playoffs.The following season, 2004-05, the team barely missed the postseason again, this time because of a late-season collapse, which again raised the question of James? ability to lead. To James? credit, he took responsibility and said, "That will never happen again." Last season, he led the Cavs to 50 wins and within a game of the Eastern Conference finals, and he finished second in the league?s MVP voting. "You always look to be better than you were last year and you want to be better than you were last game," teammate Larry Hughes said. "(James) has that focus." Great company James, who will turn 22 Dec. 30, has a legitimate chance to win an NBA title at a younger age than Michael Jordan or Larry Bird. Jordan didn?t win his first title until his seventh year in the NBA. He was 27. Larry Bird was in his second year when he captured his first championship, but he was already 24. Magic Johnson was a rare 20-year-old rookie champion. James still has a long way to go to be considered among the all-time greats, and winning a championship would go a long way in how he is judged. Some national pundits are picking the Cavaliers to win the Eastern Conference and the title, and James is their earlyseason favorite for MVP. He is arguably the league?s most gifted and complete player. In three years, he has improved his shooting range and ability to close out games, which were considered among his few weaknesses as a rookie. A strong case can be made that James is the best ever at his age. Kobe Bryant entered the NBA out of high school but didn?t become a starter until his third year. He won a title in his fourth, at age 21, but had help from Shaquille O?Neal. Tracy McGrady, another high schooler-turned-pro who has yet to win a title, didn?t start full time until his fourth season. Then, at age 21, he averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists in just more than 40 minutes per game. Last season at roughly the same age, James put up 31.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and 6.6 assists while playing 42.5 minutes per game. If one really wanted to nitpick, James could still use some work on his on-the-ball defense and free throw shooting (73.8 percent), which has dipped slightly every year he has been in the league. Carrying the load James was second in the NBA behind Allen Iverson in minutes played last season. It?s a stat James often shrugs off because he?s only 21 and has had no major injuries. But on top of the 90-plus game season, James played in the World Basketball Championships this summer as a co-captain for Team USA. Add in training camp and the preseason and it made for nearly a year of basketball. "I know how my body feels. I know how my body reacts to being tired or not tired," James said. "I feel great right now. I?m in the best condition I?ve been in in a long time. I?m not worried about getting injured or wearing down during the season." As an assistant with San Antonio and Indianapolis, Brown coached both Tim Duncan and Reggie Miller coming off stints with Team USA. Both stars had down years and were injured by season?s end, and it will be Brown?s job to make sure James doesn?t fall into a similar trap. The Cavaliers? success will depend on it. "We have to make sure that we keep him right around the 40-minutes-a-game mark," Brown said. "LeBron is a young guy and he?s not going to feel the effects right now, but maybe in the postseason or maybe three, four, five years down the road. "I respect him and his livelihood more than anything else, so I?m not going to destroy that or mess that up, because he is a huge chunk of this franchise." jwalker@dispatch.com
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11-02-2006, 06:04 AM
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CAVALIERS INSIDER Brown low-key on LeBron's summer Thursday, November 02, 2006Branson Wright Plain Dealer Reporter In a recent interview, Miami coach Pat Riley said he would ask Dwyane Wade not to play in international competition during the summer so he could be fresh for the NBA season. The Cavaliers' Mike Brown is also concerned about LeBron James, who played all summer for Team USA. Brown said he will try to limit James' minutes this season but he's not concerned enough to ask James not to play in the summer. "That's LeBron's decision," Brown said. "You're talking about playing for your country. It would be tough for me to hit him with that. Maybe if I had a few championships under my belt I might be able to ask him."
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11-02-2006, 06:07 AM
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11-10-2006, 06:21 AM
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LeBron learns the camera never, ever blinks Friday, November 10, 2006 By JIM LITKE AP Sports Columnist Being tabbed the ?next Michael Jordan? is great for as long as it lasts. There?s fat contracts and sneaker deals, commercials by the dozen, an invite inside every velvet rope and endless adulation. If any or all of those things don?t trip you up, well, there?s always the cameras. Always, as LeBron James should know by now, there will be cameras. One caught the kid who would be king walking off the floor Tuesday night in Cleveland with about 15 seconds of overtime left in a game against the Atlanta Hawks. James just had missed a 3-point shot, the Cavs already were nine behind, and the Hawks were headed the other way up the floor. Like more than a few players on more than a few nights, he started toward the tunnel before the final buzzer sounded. All James has heard since ? beyond endless replays of an astonished Hawks? announcer chirping, ?What a great sport he is!? ? is how he let everyone down. The list starts with his teammates and fans and extends on up to NBA commissioner David Stern, who?s caught in the throes of an etiquette campaign that would make Miss Manners blush. Please. ?Anytime someone doesn?t have anything to talk about, they?re going to question anything that you do,? James said before tip-off Thursday night at home against the Chicago Bulls. He was still in a defiant mood. ?Say if we were winning the game and I did the same thing that I did when we lost. Would it have been mentioned?? James added without waiting for an answer. ?I don?t think so.? What he did offends old-school sensibilities, no doubt. We like to tell kids to keep hustling to the end of every game, no matter how bitter. Fine. But it?s another thing to lecture a professional who just finished playing 47 tough minutes in a tough loss, knowing there are 75 more games and who-knows-how-many postseason series left to play. It?s hardly a reason to take someone whose precociousness ? on and off the court ? has invited comparisons to Jordan, Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson and suddenly demote him to Randy Moss? classroom. Not that James felt slighted: ?Randy Moss is a guy who has been unfairly treated sometimes ... but he?s one of the best players in the game.? Unlike Moss, however, James has been a model citizen. His talents have been tempered by humor and a well-developed sense of diplomacy that make it easy to forget he?s still two months shy of his 22nd birthday. James? instincts have carried him this far without so much as a serious hiccup. He?s big-timed a teammate or two, hasn?t hesitated to let the Cavs front office know his opinions on things, and yes, there are a few opponents out there who resent the ?King James? treatment accorded him at every turn. But he?s handled the spotlight as capably as defenders since his junior year of high school, and that?s without the benefit of even one season on campus, let alone with somebody like Dean Smith in his corner. Smith?s imprint was all over Jordan, but never moreso than in teaching him what it meant to be a professional. Long after he segued from North Carolina into the NBA, there were plenty of nights on the road when Jordan laid out the suit he?d be wearing the next day for no more than an hour or so then tried it on with different shirts and ties, always making sure the colors coordinated and everything fit just so. Like the rest of us, Jordan can be vain. But that wasn?t the point of the exercise, at least not entirely. He reasoned the walk from the hotel to a waiting bus, or from the bus to the locker room, might be the only time somebody stuck on the other side of the gantlet would ever see him up close. If Jordan was about anything back in the day, he was about making sure everybody got their money?s worth, each and every time they laid eyes on him. That?s a lot to ask from anybody. But maybe not from somebody with enough game, charisma and smarts to wear the ?next Michael Jordan? tag for as long he desires.
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12-18-2006, 08:36 AM
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01-29-2007, 06:25 AM
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Cavaliers' James roasted at charitable event Associated Press CLEVELAND - After being scorched by the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James got roasted. James' foundation hosted a celebrity roast Sunday night, with about 260 patrons paying $1,000 apiece for dinner and the chance to hear comedians Cedric the Entertainer, Alex Thomas, Paul Rodriguez and Ralphie May poke fun at King James. Continued...
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02-06-2007, 10:32 AM
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02-06-2007, 02:33 PM
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"King of Clang", hopefully he can get back to King James...
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02-14-2007, 06:44 AM
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Commentary: LeBron may never catch up to hype Wednesday, February 14, 2007 By Mark Heisler Los Angeles Times By the time he was 32, Alexander the Great had conquered the known world. LeBron James is 22, and all he has conquered is Cleveland. It can?t be easy being LeBron, not that we?re ever likely to hear about it unless Nike does a documentary. At 21, he won 50 games with the Cavaliers, finished second to Steve Nash in the MVP voting ... and it still wasn?t enough after Dwyane Wade became the first member of their 2003 draft class to win a title.
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