CONGRATES AS LeBron James wife Savannah James gets pregnant …
LeBron James is a bonafide NBA superstar. The Los Angeles Lakers forward is a three-time NBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist who has been courting attention since he was first anointed ” The Chosen One ” as a teen on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
LeBron and Savannah James have been together since that time. The high school sweethearts have spent almost half their lives together and now have three children together. Here’s a look at the enduring romance between the pair.
2002: They met while in high school.
James was a rising superstar in basketball and football at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio , when he met Savannah Brinson, a cheerleader and softball player from a rival school. He asked the then-16-year-old to a basketball game and she agreed. But Brinson knew there was something special brewing when he returned for her leftovers after their first date at Outback Steakhouse.
“I’d totally forgotten about them, and he brought them to me. I think he just wanted another excuse to come and see me,” she told Harper’s Bazaar .
2003: LeBron made the jump to the NBA
The high school senior became the top pick in the 2003 NBA draft much to his girlfriend’s surprise .
“I just thought he’d be a hometown hero for his era and it would be over,” she said.
As luck would have it, James was selected by their hometown Cleveland Cavaliers
During James’ rookie season, the couple learned that Savannah was pregnant.
“I was thinking, ‘What am I going to tell my parents? What’s going to happen to his career?'” explained Brinson.”I was very scared. I was bawling. But he (James) said, ‘It’s not going to slow me down, and it’s not going to slow you down. We’re going to keep doing what we have to do.'”
LeBron made the decision heard around the world when he decided to take his talents to Miami, Florida, and leave his hometown team. Savannah said she thought the public’s outrage to the switch was unfair.
“You have fans and you think they’re going to roll with you no matter what, and then they burn your jersey? It’s unfair,” Brinson told Harper’s Bazaar. “But they did it. It’s over.”
