LeBron James was born in Akron, Ohio just after Christmas of 1984 to 16-year-old mother Gloria James and her occasional boyfriend Anthony McClelland. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the future NBA great didn’t have the most stable of childhoods.
Indeed, following the death of her mother and grandmother in quick succession, the teenage Gloria suddenly found herself looking after her two younger brothers and her own baby boy alone. “I wouldn’t wish some of the stuff we went through on anyone,” she once remarked, as shared by The Guardian, about her and LeBron’s chaotic family life. “Not on my worst enemy.”
In one particular year, the Jameses relocated half a dozen times. In another, LeBron only turned up to school 62 of the 162 days required. And Gloria eventually found herself in trouble with the law, too, racking up arrests for everything from trespassing and disorderly conduct to contempt of court, and she ended up spending a week in prison. “I saw drugs, guns, killings; it was crazy,” LeBron told The Guardian of his adolescent years.
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