Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is one the greatest athletes in human history, a 6’9, 250-pound mobile block of granite who can jump out of the gym and summon borderline unbelievable bursts of speed for a guy his size. It’s also well documented that even though James was perfectly built to be a basketball player and has ultimately made an argument that he’s the best player of all-time, there was another sport he might have been able to dominate, too: Football.
But when James didn’t play football during his senior year after being on his high school team for the prior three, went to the NBA directly after graduating and immediately cemented his place among the best players in the league, the door to football seems like it might have closed for him.