LeBron James before the hype | Ep 1 A King's Reign
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
4.1 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to A King's Reign, a multi-episode series all about the life, career and impact of LeBron James. Across the next two weeks here on The Athletic NBA Show, more than a dozen journalists from The Athletic will detail the highs and lows of LeBron's basketball life.
In episode 1, Joe Vardon charts LeBron's rise from an interesting local high school player to a generational basketball prospect. Then, Joe, The Athletic's Jason Lloyd and Tom Withers from the Associated Press discuss all the amazing moments from LeBron's high school and early Cleveland Cavaliers career.
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| 0:47.7 | My name is Andrew Schlect. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm the executive producer and host for the Athletic MBA show. |
| 0:52.4 | We are incredibly excited to bring you a King's Reign, |
| 0:55.7 | a new narrative podcast series detailing LeBron James' life, career, and impact. |
| 1:07.5 | For the next two weeks, here on this feed, we're going to be talking all about LeBron, bringing |
| 1:14.0 | you stories beginning all the way back from when he was nine years old. |
| 1:17.8 | Telling those stories is a team of journalists here at the athletic, voices you know very |
| 1:23.0 | well, including Sam Amick, David Aldridge, Marcus Thompson, the No Dunks crew, and many, many more. |
| 1:30.8 | We've gotten an incredible range of people from across LeBron's life and career to contribute |
| 1:35.0 | their experiences. In this first episode, the athletics Joe Varden details LeBron before the |
| 1:41.0 | hype, how LeBron moved from intriguing high school player to an internationally |
| 1:45.8 | known prospect, all before he turned 18 years old. |
| 1:50.0 | At a young age, I didn't know how great LeBron was. |
| 1:53.2 | I was trying to compete with him. |
| 1:55.1 | I was trying to, but then it was once we got to high school when the first magazine cover came out. |
| 2:01.1 | And then Joe Varden is joined by the athletics, Jason Lloyd, and Tom Withers from the Associated Press, |
| 2:08.2 | three people who have seen just about every moment of LeBron's career, from St. Vincent, St. Mary's, |
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