King James Believe The Hype Essay

Ryan Jones story King James Believe The Hype. It's a story about the NBA superstar LeBron James life and all the struggles he went through before his NBA career and during his career. One lesson that is taught is “Perseverance”, and not to quit when you fail or times get tough. From the beginning, the description and details in the story about LeBron's perseverance. When he first started to play basketball, he was really good and he always said: “I want to be an NBA player”. There were so many people that supported him and made him believe he could make it. But, there were people saying “You're too small”, “You're not good enough”, and “ You're too weak”. After that he wanted to prove them wrong, so he started to put most of his time outside of school to practice and work out at the gym. He practiced three hours every day not including practice with his high school team. Then he started to get noticed by a lot of people and even the people that told him he wasn’t good enough or he was too weak, they were still saying …show more content…
Sports center was now saying any NBA team that has a chance to draft LeBron should because he’s the next superstar. The thing is no team wanted him because they were saying he was too young and wouldn't stand a chance in the NBA. So what he did was he proved that he could stand a chance by carrying his team to the AAU championship and he won it. The week after he won the AAU championship, he got a call from the general manager from the Cleveland Cavaliers they wanted to draft him and be a 6th man small forward.
The author uses “Viewpoint”, as on author's craft were he uses LeBron James perspective. It really brought the story to life because it's not just some guy that goes to every game of LeBron’s it actually in his perspective. It also shows his feelings deeper than an author could. The author really brought the story to life using