I’ll never forget the first time I saw LeBron James’ first Sports Illustrated cover. I had graduated from college the year before, and was visiting some friends in Cincinnati one weekend when I saw it in a gas station. Grabbing a copy, I mentioned to some friends that “this guy is from the town my dad grew up in, and it looks like he’ll skip college to go right to the NBA.” Not much was said, but a year later, before the 2003 NBA Draft, I received a text from one of the guys asking if LeBron James was “the guy from the magazine”.
Appreciating LeBron
