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LeBron James' new house has barbershop, casino, bowling alley...but no basketball court?


by Paula Neal Mooney

Today the Bob Dyer of the Akron-Beacon Journal got his "King James builds a castle of a home" piece smack dab on the front page of my local paper.

And it's no wonder: Even though us Ohioans are used to LeBron James -- some see him about town, others have pics crowding their bureaus of LeBron's days playing for St. Vincent-St. Mary -- or "St. V" as they call it around these parts -- we still are hungry for all things LeBron James.

LeBron James' new house is an object of fascination.

It first started in 2003, as Dyer notes, when LeBron James bought a home in beautiful Bath Township for $2.1 million. I remember the day I sat in a conference room at the Akron-Beacon Journal downtown as a woman announced that LeBron was having that house razed to the ground, saying she knew where it was located.

Within seconds, a reporter quietly tipped out of the room to follow up on her tip, and all of us reader panel participants chuckled.

A home befitting a king...
Indeed LeBron James' new home sounds like royalty. At 35,440 square feet, Dyer notes that it's only 10,000 square feet smaller than our local Best Buy. That really gives you some perspective.

Yet it doesn't look gaudy, or as selfish as some monstrosity that LeBron could've built from his balling bucks. Funny, LeBron James' home plans have yet to list a basketball court, but a nice, sleek or Boston Garden-type parquet floor must be in the works. Where else would King James practice when away from the Quicken Loans Arena -- better known as The Q.

It's going to have a barbershop on the lower floor right next to the bowling alley. A garage large enough to fit six cars -- I wonder if that includes the silver Hummer LeBron first received that had me rubber-necking at every HumVee that pranced by me? No, I think he got rid of that one...

LeBron's head
Maybe the most self-aggrandizing feature of Lebron's new manse will be this bas-relief (I had to look it up: A sculpture in which the figures project slightly from the background) limestone sculpture of James' head on an outer wall.

LeBron James' chiseled (literally) features will sport his trademark headband akin to a circular laurel wreath made of interlocking branches and leaves encircling Apollo's crown in Greek mythology.

Indeed, the ancient Greece wreaths were awarded to athletic victors, and this new home of LeBron's definitely spells a long journey from the two-bedroom, subsidized-housing flat at Spring Hill Apartments LeBron shared with his mama just a half decade ago...

Keep out
That seems to be the message to the rude visitors who've already begun gawking at LeBron James' new house, even though it won't be finished until 2008. Fine by me, I'll wait till I'm personally invited.

Maybe then I can finally get to the bottom of the local rumor I'm trying to substantiate: Does LeBron James have any familial connection with Cindy George? Subscribe to Paula Mooney to find out when I do, and read Bob Dyer's article here...

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Comments

Paris David said…
God bless Sunny Ellis for showing me what I'd done to accidentally turn off my blogger comments on this post and the one from today:

Here's Sunny's blessed email:
your last two posts have had the comments disabled.

You can fix that by going to Blogger -->Posts-->Edit post

at the bottom of the edit post page (which looks exactly like your compose post page) is a link that says "Post Options"

you click that and options show up below. Change comments to allow.

You should be able to make comments show up for all future posts by going to setting-->comments and editing the settings there.

Hope this helps
JD said…
Paula,Lebron has done well. In am refering to his conduct and image.He was a pop star of a basketball player in High School. The racist media tried to make King James seem like a thug when his mom got him a Hummer.The young brother is polite, appears down to earth, somewhat humble and a good teammate. I am proud of him and hopes his star continues to burn brightly.
Anonymous said…
this house is mad.

With a 10% of this house i would be more than happy
Anonymous said…
wow that is quite a house. id bet there's a jaccuzi in their too!
I dont think he really needs a basketball court. I mean cmon is Lebron James really going to shoot around in his back yard? The barbershop is weird tho

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