lebron james isn't who you think he is [Music] addictions million dollar scandals almost dying in a plane crash these are 10 things you didn't know about lebron and first up the time he ruined someone's life over a facebook post the situation started with this play and even though it wasn't lebron's craziest dunk after the game he posted a picture of it on facebook but by the time it racked up a few thousand likes the photographer who took the pick steve mitchell turned lebron's post into a legal battle mitchell typically uploads his photos online where you
can purchase a license to use them so when he saw lebron posted his pick all over social media for free mitchell contacted his lawyer to sue lebron for copyright infringement and demanded a hundred fifty thousand dollars for the damages now i'm not even sure why a lawyer would take this case knowing lebron literally posted a picture of himself and when lebron heard about the lawsuit he felt mitchell was just trying to secure an easy bag and waste his time so he countersued mitchell for a million dollars sending the dude into bankruptcy look at lebron man
dubbing people on the court and in the courtroom but that's just one of the 10 craziest stories of lebron james career so let's take things to another level where one destructive decision cost lebron 50 million dollars after lebron's losing season with the lakers he traded away damn near the entire team for anthony davis at first this seemed amazing until lebron realized this move was secretly about to cost himself millions see lebron knew that throughout anthony davis's entire career he'd always worn the number 23 and obviously on the lakers lebron already wore the number but he
knew how significant it was to aed so to show ad some extra appreciation for coming to la fran passed in the jersey number but as soon as lebron revealed aed was becoming the new 23 lebron got a surprise call from nike and they broke some horrible news apparently the next season's nba fan gear was already made including millions of lebron laker jerseys with the number 23 so the only way he could switch numbers was destroying all of the inventory and just think nba jerseys can run you at least 50 dollars each so lebron decided to
wait it out he stuck with 23 forced ad to settle on number three and the next year when lebron could officially switch his number 80 realized he didn't even want 23 anymore damn imagine if lebron spent 50 million dollars for no reason well that still wouldn't be as bad as the injury that completely changed lebron's life at st vincent st mary high school a 17 year old lebron was already on top of the sports world because not only was he dominating basketball he was becoming an even more legendary football player on the field nobody had
ever seen anything like lebron from his sophomore to junior year lebron racked up over a hundred receptions 23 touchdowns and was already being compared to nfl legends so with d1 offers rolling in lebron's future was 50 50. he was either going pro in football or basketball and cuz he loved both sports lebron just couldn't make a decision until a summer league game his fate was decided for him as lebron ran down court on a fast break he slammed it like he'd done a million times but this time lebron suffered a devastating injury and was rushed
to the hospital right when lebron arrived the doctors realized something horrifying lebron's wrist was completely shattered so doctors let lebron know he wouldn't be able to play sports for at least two months now lebron was faced with a life-changing ultimatum football or basketball if he returned to the field he'd be risking another injury ruining all chances of making the nfl or nba so with the media attention at an all-time high and having an entire family depending on lebron he made a decision nobody saw coming lebron knew about the mba's strict draft eligibility including a rule
that required all teenagers to graduate high school and be at least 18 years old but lebron knew playing against jealous high schoolers put a target on his back so not long after his injury lebron petitioned the drop out of school and joined the nba early but the league felt approving his request could spark a worldwide controversy so lebron was denied now being forced to play out his senior year lebron knew it was now or never to secure his spot in the nba but little did he know he was making the biggest mistake of his career
see when lebron returned to the court not only did he put up the best numbers of his life he led his high school to their third championship in four years and officially became the world's top prospect all that success set lebron up to be the top pick of the 2003 nba draft but that's when lebron realized that extra year of high school was actually a curse during lebron's 2002 high school season the nba was a completely different place one team was astronomically worse than every other franchise the cleveland cavaliers they were on pace to end
their season winning less than 20 games which would almost guarantee them the number one pick in the draft so with cleveland being lebron's hometown team he should have been hyped but after the cavs invited him to their workouts and games lebron realized just how horrible the team was and why their arena was so empty he did not want to be a cavalier but the decision wasn't up to him eventually cleveland finished the year 17 and 65 securing the number one pick and when draft day came it was official lebron was now a cleveland cavalier but
little did he know joining this team would almost get him killed and now that we're getting into the top 5 craziest stories of lebron's career let's take things to a whole new level throughout the first three seasons of lebron's career he put the cavaliers on his back and developed into one of the nba's greatest scorers so he was voted in the 2006 nba all-star game but that's where things turned deadly coming into all-star weekend lebron and his cavs teammates had a simple flight plan hop on the team plane fly from cleveland to detroit then head
to the all-star event in houston but right when lebron took a look at the plane he already knew something was wrong i had always complained about our team playing it was oh it was run down but i always felt like something could actually happen to this plane up to this point nobody took lebron's fear of flying seriously besides takeoff was smooth the plane was in the air and this was something everybody had been through a hundred times but halfway through the flight the lights began to flicker and in came the turbulence the pilots went into
a panic and as soon as they saw the smoke everybody feared for their lives every single body on the plane from detroit to houston thought they were going to die we looked into the kitchen at one point in the flight and there was smoke coming out of the kitchen the plane came in hot and luckily the team landed safely lebron knew that day could have been his last so when he hopped off the flight and made his way to the stadium he made sure he dominated the all-star game securing both the win and the mvp
but even almost dying ain't as crazy as the psychotic fan who impersonated lebron's dad just to rob him with millions of dollars see lebron went his entire life without knowing his real father and being left in the dark lebron shared his feelings with the world you know my whole life growing up i just kind of always said why me you know why me why wasn't why didn't my dad want to be around once lebron made the mba he shrugged off the thought of his dad and focused on becoming great and at first it looked like
nothing could stop lebron until he randomly got hit with a life-changing scandal july 8th 2010. on live tv lebron announced a decision that made him one of the most infamous people on the planet signing to the miami heat and this became one of the most viral moments in sports history so it was the perfect time for lebron's dad to make his own headline out of nowhere a man named lester bryce stovall claimed he was lebron's father but not only that he was suing lebron and his mom gloria for 4 million dollars because of a dna
cover-up scandal and the entire situation started 26 years earlier march 15 1984 lester claimed he showed up at the dc space bar and met lebron's mom she claimed she was in her 20s and looking for a good time so eventually lester took her home and described the situation with gloria as intimate but later that night lester was ashamed of his performance and decided to leave without any intentions of contacting gloria again until a few weeks later it was gloria and she was pregnant at that moment lester just couldn't believe it so all he told gloria
was well if he's mine make sure he plays basketball and hung up and keep in mind this was the end of march 9 months before december and when was lebron eventually born december 30 1984 but it wasn't until 23 years later lester regretted that phone call december 5th 2007 the time had finally come that lester realized he messed up lebron was now dominating the nba and became a multi-millionaire so lester called up gloria he apologized and even tried reconnecting with her and lebron but it was too late gloria wanted nothing to do with lester and
since she knew lebron turned himself into a star she not only didn't want lester to come around she apparently threatened to get lester beat up if he ever called again but a few days later lebron heard about the call and desperately wanted to know if this man was telling the truth so they agreed to a dna test the results came in the mail lester was not the father or so lebron and gloria made it seem lester felt something shady went down with the test and believed lebron and gloria tampered with them to cover up the
evidence lester claimed he looked exactly like lebron they had the same body types same height yeah we're approximately the same height hell in basketball they even dunked the same and that there was no way he wasn't lebron's father celester filed a four million dollar lawsuit against lebron and gloria for fraud defamation and misrepresentation the claims went back and forth but lebron refused to comment and finally in 2011 a judge analyzed the story and felt lester was trying to make a quick buck just for being lebron's dad so the case was dismissed and lebron never acknowledged
lester again to this day lebron still doesn't know who his real dad is i just wonder if that's what led to lebron's addictions or maybe it was this year's nightmare season cause lebron's laker teammates were so bad he had no choice but to put players half his age on his back and carry them all year long like how is that even possible he's 37 years old well it turns out lebron's been hiding things and recently he revealed his secrets lebron can't go a single day without watching who flicks yeah even lebron's a fan so if
you want to be the next lebron james subscribe anyways lebron also said i go home drink wine or drink tequila every night it doesn't none of that stuff matters to me uh yeah can you really blame lebron for drinking every single night when he's got teammates who do this even when lebron's on the bench he needs alcohol now that's crazy but at least nobody almost died like the time lebron had to save an nba legend's life right after lebron lost the 2015 finals he needed to take his mind off basketball so we hit up his
boys dwyane wade chris paul and carmelo anthony for a trip to the bahamas but little did lebron know this trip was about to turn into one of the scariest moments of his life right when the boys flew in they all figured it was time to celebrate drinking wine and that's when they came up with a brilliant idea to head into the ocean on a banana boat but as they made their way deep into the water that's when the wind and the waves picked up where all of a sudden [Music] carmelo was drowning everybody had to
think fast and with lebron being the only one who could swim it was up to him to save the day he jumped off the boat into the water he was bringing me back with one with one arm now he saved my life i can't hold you he saved my life he saved my life damn saving players on and off the court but even that ain't the craziest lebron story you'll ever hear what if i told you that over the last few years lebron's been dropping hints that he's leaving the nba we've already seen lebron trying
out other opportunities making and delivering pizzas acting in movies but lebron's always kept his eyes on another profession in 2011 he made a secret six million dollar investment in a liverpool's football club and when the news broke nobody thought much of it but all along there's been a deeper plan you know if i put all my time uh into the sport uh professional soccer i think i would be able to do it now many people took that as a joke but ever since that announcement lebron's been spotted visiting their stadium rocking their gear and one
of liverpool's own players even offered to give up the number six for lebron to come and join their club ironically right after lebron received his own liverpool jersey and randomly posted it on facebook even let the coach know he'd be happy to join them on the field whenever see lebron's stake in liverpool has always been bigger than just an investment that's why he's been right by liverpool's side tweeting about their success and celebrating their championship wins but what really made lebron's secret plan obvious is when he posted liverpool's logo on instagram and shortly after nike
announced lebron's very own liverpool clothing line everyone knows that at this point in lebron's career he's only chasing two things championships and his idol michael jordan and what did mj do at the end of his own career join another sport lebron's known all along that if his mission with the lakers failed he'd have another opportunity and that's why even when he's playing basketball he's wearing liverpool kids so joining their club helps him accomplish all of his goals and joining pro football that might just be the craziest thing that's happened to lebron's career since he got
embarrassed by a rookie by the time a player humiliated lebron so badly the footage got deleted off the internet and i know you want to hear more about that so just click this video right here [Music] you
