{"id":468850,"date":"2023-11-09T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468850"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:08:41","slug":"lebron-james-to-have-museum-built-in-hometown-of-akron-ohio","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-to-have-museum-built-in-hometown-of-akron-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James to have museum built in hometown of Akron, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will have a museum built in his honor, which will visualize his path from child prodigy to NBA stardom in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A LeBron museum is coming to Akron Nov. 25 \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The LeBron James&#39; Home Court Museum will display a recreation of his childhood home and never-before-seen memorabilia<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds will be going back to the Akron community<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LJFamFoundation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LJFamFoundation<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4zd4cYUus\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/R4zd4cYUus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1722689862980051163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The museum will open door on November 25 and will showcase pictures and video footage of LeBron&#8217;s childhood, his school and how he grew to be one of the top NBA players with stints in Cleveland, Miami and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dream was always to put Akron on the map, so to have a place in my hometown that allows me to share my journey with my fans from all over the world means a lot to me,\u201d James said. \u201cI\u2019ve been known to hang on to a lot of things over the years, and I always knew there would be a time and place to bring them out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many valuable items will be on display such as the all-white suit worn by James at the 2003 NBA draft his jersey from the McDonald\u2019s All-American game and an original backboard and rim from St. Vincent\u2013St. Mary High School, where James first caught the attention of basketball fans as a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James will have a museum built in his honor, which will visualize his path from child prodigy to NBA stardom in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439657,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17644],"acf":{"announce":"The Lakers' superstar will have his career displayed in his hometown","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468852,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468850\/revisions\/468852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468850"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468850"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}