Lebron James: A Trailblazer On and Off the Court

Lebron James, the flagbearer of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 22 years. Coming into the league as one of the last high-school players to do so, he’s become a world-renowned athlete, celebrity, business owner, and family man. Contributing significantly to on and off-court progress, his creativity must be analyzed. What has he done that set him apart from all the other young athletes that came into the competitive NBA landscape of the 2000s. From my time hating him as a Chicago Bulls fan during all of the Bulls-Heat duels, I now recognize his impact on the game, and feel he is the most deserving candidate from recent memory to require creative analysis. 

By beginning with his on-court abilities, he is quite easily the best all-around player the game has ever seen. At 6’9, 250 lbs, he moves like a guard, but can guard the paint like the center. With a quickly modernizing NBA landscape, he’s practiced and become one of the most efficient shooters in the game over multiple peaks of his career – exemplifies the creative maneuver of problem-solving and adapting to rise to the occasion of perfecting his craft. With that being said, his creative prowess lies primarily in his strength, which is unexpectedly passing the ball. Seeing the court like a point guard, he finds the angles, and to generate open passing lanes and therefore easy buckets for his teammates, thereby making him a formidable opponent that can improve everyone with him on the court. 

For what he is involved in off of the court, he’s used most Augisten Fuentes’ ideas of risk-taking and being a trailblazer, being one of the first athletes to be so highly involved in his hometown through collaborative efforts. Sticking with his high-school buddy now turned manager, Rich Paul, they’ve started quite a few initiatives to benefit the state of Ohio. He has started a school for low-income students to increase literacy rates. When he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, he literally pumped millions of dollars into the economy, which then benefited the constituents of that city. 

To keep this concise, all I’ll say is this – this barely scratches the surface of what he’s done. He’s a fluid creative that is able to shape himself to benefit himself and those around him in the greatest manner possible.