Home is a sense of place, where you feel you belong, where you need to be. It doesn't have to be the place you were born. But it can be.
For LeBron James, his sense of home is northeast Ohio and Cleveland.
Lebron told USA TODAY Sports being back gives him a "sense of comfort and security."
"The fact that my kids love waking up every single day and going to school and that my family is comfortable, that makes it much easier on me," said James, who is a new dad to a daughter and two sons. "My wife and my kids and my friends and my family, they're all enjoying life. That's all I can ask."
His return home is clearly already a personal triumph, and now he's focused on making it a professional success. Which is leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA championship.
Liam Roberts (grade 9) said, “I like that he came home because he’s good.”
David Wilson (grade 12) said, “{Lebron} doesn’t deserve the amount of respect he gets, because he left us once so we shouldn’t trust him as easily again.” "If there's any fans around the world that need a championship, it's these fans," James said, well aware that Cleveland hasn't won a major pro sports championship since Browns won the 1964 NFL Championship.
For Lebron and everyone in Cleveland, it’s a sense of home that ties it all together. "The roads, the buildings, the people," James said. "They helped raised me. My mother always knew she had someone to help and that was the city of Akron. The grind, the struggle and everything is earned and not given. We always live by that phrase."
For LeBron James, his sense of home is northeast Ohio and Cleveland.
Lebron told USA TODAY Sports being back gives him a "sense of comfort and security."
"The fact that my kids love waking up every single day and going to school and that my family is comfortable, that makes it much easier on me," said James, who is a new dad to a daughter and two sons. "My wife and my kids and my friends and my family, they're all enjoying life. That's all I can ask."
His return home is clearly already a personal triumph, and now he's focused on making it a professional success. Which is leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA championship.
Liam Roberts (grade 9) said, “I like that he came home because he’s good.”
David Wilson (grade 12) said, “{Lebron} doesn’t deserve the amount of respect he gets, because he left us once so we shouldn’t trust him as easily again.” "If there's any fans around the world that need a championship, it's these fans," James said, well aware that Cleveland hasn't won a major pro sports championship since Browns won the 1964 NFL Championship.
For Lebron and everyone in Cleveland, it’s a sense of home that ties it all together. "The roads, the buildings, the people," James said. "They helped raised me. My mother always knew she had someone to help and that was the city of Akron. The grind, the struggle and everything is earned and not given. We always live by that phrase."