Originally Posted by futuristxen

No kidding. After Windhorst I'm usually strapped of places to go besides message boards.

Also I don't think there's been a single good interview of Lebron. Nobody has ever really done an in depth report on his life. He has a rags to riches story, but every report starts with his junior year of high school. I've heard as a kid he was basically living out of a car with his mom, and never going to school, and then he basically got adopted off the streets.

That's a huge amount of trauma for anyone to go through as a kid. And we really have no idea how it really influences Lebron. Does he ever think about his life growing up? How does that influence his goals, how he deals with his teammates? How does that contrast with Kobe's cosmopolitan childhood as the son of an NBA player and Euro-star?

We get these kind of stories about guys like Caron Butler and Ben Wallace all the time. But we rarely get that kind of incite into Lebron. Even when he was coming out of high school, there was little done in the way of biographical reporting.

It seems like for the most part Lebron interviews with a mask on. He jokes a lot, and gives a lot of stock answers. But what is he really like thought wise? I think he's becoming more candid with regards to basketball, BUT there's just a chunk of his personality that I'm missing, which I think keeps him at a bit of arm's length from the average NBA viewer.