In the United States, the American dream is not prepared for everyone. The people at the bottom and each have their own misfortune. On December 30, 1984, in Akron, Ohio, a disrepair house in the United States, Leah James 16-year-old black girl gave birth to a baby boy, her boyfriend without her side, only her own mother.
Gelia looked at her own child and said, "Poor boy, born without a father, just like my name is James."
This slum-born child, without a father's child, is called LeBron James.
At this point, Gelia and her mother, are worried about later life, they are lonely, do not know how to raise this little life to come to this world, they never thought that the name will spread throughout the United States Resounding the entire world may be more famous than the United States president.
America's black civilian caves, always chaotic, always accompanied by restlessness, small LeBron from birth do not know who the father, his world, only the mother and grandmother. Unfortunately, her grandmother died suddenly of an acute heart attack in the early morning of the third year, Christmas. LeBron know the news just opened his own Christmas present: a basketball, the first basketball in life. When Gelia told LeBron about the death of her grandmother after LeBron dismissed the gift, she did so, always protecting LeBron. Perhaps it is somewhere in the doomed, basketball will give the child full of dark childhood bring light.
The little guy was suddenly attracted by this bouncing ball toy. For a long time, juvenile James in the streets chasing orange red basketball, never tired.
Later, James's old house was demolished, he and his mother started a displaced life, from LeBron 5 years old to 8 years old, moved 12 times home, Gelia felt sorry for their children, but small Lele Brown understood his mother's hard work and never complained that every time he moved, he just picked up a small backpack with all his belongings and followed his mother silently. When other children playing video games, small LeBron busy moving.
However, the move did not change anything. It was still a dilapidated hut. Still hungry, there was still no toys. Still, there was a drug-filled neighborhood. Still, every night in the gunshots and sirens, they were curled up in the quilt Hold your shoulders waiting for the daytime arrival.
This is LeBron's childhood, spent in the alarm, gunfight and various chaos, Gelia has been doing everything possible to protect LeBron. She helped small LeBron avoid all dangerous things, such as drugs, theft, although difficult life, but she has been trying to give their children a white child's life, desperately do a lot of hard work, to remind LeBron to their own childhood Responsible for keeping away from the bad habits, putting a gift of LeBron every Christmas Christmas written on a piece of paper under the Christmas tree, for whom LeBron is everything. In the gunfire night, Geria sometimes go out to work, this time the biggest hope of small James is the second day to wake up to see the mother alive, and Geria never let him down.
For LeBron, Gelia means love all over the world, meaning the greatest sense of security means beliefs of survival and determination to be good guys in the future. You can say Gelia is not a good girl, she has no culture, she mixed her in the slums, but you can never deny that she is a good mother.
However, this kind of life is fragile and displaced in the slums. Such a life is hopeless. An unfortunate one may be beyond redemption. Luckily, James met Frank Walker.
Frank Walker, a local coach for the Hornets basketball team, took home little James as the mother and son were desperation because he saw James' far-reaching mind and amazing athleticism, thinking Help this child
At age nine, LeBron often played with teenagers under a rugby team in southern Arkon. He was very impressed with Coach Walker: "The child has never played an organized tournament and knows nothing about the rules, but just say it again, and he immediately understands that I have never seen him like that smart kid."
So, with the help of the Walker couple, James's life changed, with the first real home, he first had his own room, for the first time what is called a stable life, began to like and children Play together, begin to study hard, the most important thing is, James started to contact basketball.
James said he fell in love with the sport when he first came into contact with basketball, especially after he succeeded in stealing a layup, giving him a gamble. Since then, basketball became LeBron - James's favorite. Since childhood, James hoped to be able to grow to 1 meter 98, the same height as Jordan. When he reached 2 meters 03, he was still greatly annoyed. He was a guard since childhood, Jordan as an idol, do not know in the future he will grow into an all-powerful player such as Byrd and magician.
