When LeBron James entered the NBA as a 19-year-old and joined his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers, just about everyone in Cleveland pictured the Akron, Ohio native in a Cavs jersey for his entire career. However, after seven seasons with the team LeBron decided to take his talents to South Beach and joined the Miami Heat, causing just about every single Cavs fan to turn on him.
That offseason, all basketball fans could think about were the reactions he was going to get when he returned to Cleveland for the first time and how he’d be treated by Cavs fans going forward. That day came on December 2, 2010, and it’s a day that LeBron James remembers very, very well.
(Warning: The video contains NSFW language)
In this teaser for the latest episode of LeBron’s ‘More Than An Athlete’, the four-time NBA MVP recalls what he was feeling heading into his first ever game against the Cavaliers and what he went through leading up to tip-off.
It took Cavs fans a while to forgive James for leaving them in 2010, but it’s nothing but love for King James now whenever he returns to Cleveland after he returned home to bring them a championship.
(H/T Twitter/uninterrupted)
