One of the greatest stories in sports history. Hometown hero turns villian to then return home to break the longest championship drought(for a city) in sports.

I think every move he made was for Cleveland. Even leaving. He had to learn how to win...

He came back to Cleveland, and made a promise to give them a championship and he full filled that promise.

Who’s here after Lebron’s 4th ring? 💍

I'm gonna miss him when he retires. I know in years to come, we will all be old and remembering having the honour to live in and be apart of Lebron's era. Thank you Lebron for the motivation.

Just thinking about everything he's been through and his story, it is one of the most unique stories in NBA history, he's solidified his career as a legend.

2004 LeBron: Hey guys, I won rookie of the year! Can we get some better players to play with me? Cavs: Good job, but maybe next year? 2005 LeBron: Hey guys, i'm starting in the all-star game in only my second year!!! Can we get some better players to play with me? Cavs: Good job, but maybe next year? 2006 LeBron: Hey guys, I got us into the playoffs for the first time in 7 years!! Can we maybe hire a better coach? Cavs: We don't have the money for it 2007 LeBron: Hey guys, I dragged our YMCA team to the NBA finals!!!!! Can you get me another all-star? Maybe a better coach? Cavs: We want to LeBran but the economy, it's just not very good right now buddy :( 2008 LeBron: Hey guys, I appreciate Ben Wallace but we ran into the Boston superteam. Our team is a dumpster fire. Please make changes Cavs: We will get right on it! 2009 LeBron: Hey guys, I won league MVP!!!!! I make the all-star team year after year, first team NBA. Our team is trash. We NEED a HOF coach! Cavs: Congrats on MVP. We are going to surround you with talent!!!! 2010 LeBron: Hey guys, now I won back-to-back MVPs!! So wtf?! Shit coach, shit roster. We ran into the Boston superteam again. What do you expect me to do?! Cavs: Congrats. We got you Shaq at 38, isnt that enough? Please be patient, we are trying to trade for Michael Jordan as we speak. Bulls claim they are very interested in a Ilgauskas and Mo Williams package. STAY TUNED BROTHA! **2010 off-season LeBron joins Miami Heat LeBron: I am joining the Miami Heat Cavs: Why? LeBron: You never surrounded me with any talent. WE GOT YOU SHAQ! LeBron: He was 38. Plus you gave me bad coaches, I needed a HOF coach! Cavs: Mike Brown is going into the HOF! LeBron: Miami will treat me right! I will win a championship Cavs: You ungratful fuck! Cavs will win a championship before you do!!!! Cavs: WE DON'T NEED YOU ANYWAY!!!! Jamario Moon will lead us to glory!!! **2011 Cavs don't even make the playoffs **2012 Cavs don't even make the playoffs **2013 Cavs don't even make the playoffs **2014 Cavs don't even make the playoffs People wonder why LeBron left?!? Imagine Jordan being drafted to the worst team in the league, the team consistently fails to surround him with all-stars, let alone stars. They have terrible head coaches and management is a joke. Jordan would have zero rings and demand a trade. The only tragedy here is that LeBron did not leave earlier. He owed them absolutely nothing. Aside from tragedy, the worst thing that ever happened to LeBron James was being drafted to that horrible team. Name another all-star player that dragged a dumpster fire into the NBA finals IN THEIR FOURTH YEAR IN THE LEAGUE. Of course they got fucking swept!

Came from a homeless mother, taken home by his coach. Blow up in high school and made it to nba draft as a high school. Went to finals with no Allstars except him and couldn’t win. Fail to the Celtics in semi 2010. Made decision to join heat. Had his worst finals series. People doubted him. Won back to back mvps next season. Won back to back nba finals. Won back to back finals mvp. After losing to spurs 2014 made decision to join cavs again. Lost finals to curry 2015 and then did the impossible in 2016 defeating the best record nba team in history. Lost the next two. Made the decision to join lakers and has a chance to win it again this time with AD. This guys story shall be told generation to generation

The New Goat. His story is way more special than michaels. Growing up without a father, being a teenage ‘popstar’. Gettin picked first as an 18 year old, being a 31 ppg scorer at 21, carrying his team to the finals as 22 year old. Colecting mvps at such a young age, but also the hate for leaving and ring chasing and then going back amd winning one for his home team. Such an amazing story and player

Watching this after game 7 of the 2016 finals

Feels like the chorus was meant for this moment “I know my kingdom awaits and theyve forgiven my mistakes.” Dang - my bad wrong lyric

Man 6 years later still getting chills

this is one of the best basketball videos ever made

When the reporter said "LBJ comming home" i had goosebumps

Few years from now Lebron will finally retire and the NBA will never be the same again, appreciate greatness.

I don’t know why but it’s just so sad to see a legend grow old 😭

Who's watching after LA trade ? 2018

Love him or Hate him, he kept his promise to the city of Cleveland and returned to give them their first title. He may not win the 2nd title for them but this man is truly the greatest in this era. Excited to see who will take the throne when he retires.

Back after he broke the scoring record. Absolutely incredible

All I can say is, WE WILL MISS HIM WHEN HE RETIRES...I've been watching him since his first year.. He's been my inspiration for fighting all my battles in life❤️❤️😭

Greatest story in NBA history you may hate Lebron but u have to respect what he has done for the city of Cleveland he made a mistake in leaving did the right thing and came back to his hometown. I hated Lebron after watching this it made me appreciate greatness

The day LeBron retires is gonna be so sad

I keep coming back to this video every few months. It’s gonna be a sad day when LeBron finally retires but I’m grateful to have watched his greatness. He just turn 38. Play on King!

People forget that Lebron WAS Cleveland his first seven years there. They didnt surround him with any championship caliber or all-NBA caliber players and yet the Cavs were almost always a title contender.

I'm not a huge fan of Bron but I'm gonna cry watching this when he retires

so the city of cleveland long tortured without a championship for 50 years now has something to cheer about "lebron james is comming home"....

This hit different The return 2.0

One of the greatest highlight mixtapes of all time to this day

Made me teary-eyed. Congrats Lebron.

CLEVELAND!!!!!!! THIS IS FOR YOU!!!!!!!! -lebron King James

This is easily one of my favorite KZfaq videos of all time

Hands down, he’s the greatest of all time!!

CHAMPION!! 2O16 CAVS! THANK YOU LEBRON!

I'm not a LeBron fan but I cried 😢😢😭😭😭

the GOAT made history again, the trophy back to los angeles for you kobe, 2️⃣4️⃣ FOREVER 🏆

this remains the hardest lebron james edit

I’m not a Cleveland Fan, but as a Fan of Curry... I have nothing but respect for this Legend...He carried his team to the Finals, he did things man thought impossible, Broken records said to be unbreakable. To say he isn’t a Goat is blunt Ignorance, Warriors may have sweeped you, but your Legacy will still be known as legendary. Good Fight, King James.

Man… This is emotional for me. Lebron coming back to the Cavs for me as a Cavs fan hits different. I can’t thank him enough for bringing Cleveland a championship.

Honestly, i was one of haters of lebron when he left cleveland without delivering a championship, one of the reason they called him the chosen one, because many believed he was the one to end the drought of cleveland for so long. But when he did in 2016, coming back from a 1-3 deficit against a the best recors in the world, 73-9. Mission accomplished. Lebron can retire or leave, whatever he wants, he would always be remebered in cleveland. Ty for ending the drought.

Who's here in 2020?? THE KING was getting old😭

LEBRON JAMES.!!!! YOU'RE the BEST!! The nation realized that u are Worth to admire,win or loose! The great thing is ...When u heard their booooooooooo's turns into WOWWWWWWWW!!!!!

let's appreciate his greatness.

This is the type of video people are gonna show their kids one day

Who's watching during the 2019 NBA Finals Wish he be the one be there............ Edit : He won another ring with the team that built my childhood....nothing but respect for LeBron

Can you re-make this including this years championship ( Please include that superhuman block on Iguodola.. PLEASE!!! )

pistons fan but this video is great. Lebron is amazing

Literally can’t imagine the NBA without LeBron

Who is here after LeBron won the championship with the Lakers?

A kid born and raised in Akron, watching the Cavs growing up dreaming of playing in the NBA. Dubbed the Chosen One and the year he enters the NBA, his hometown team has the number one pick. He achieves greatness but try as he might he can't win it all. After many years he makes the hard decision to leave. Cast out and ostracized by the fans who once loved him he ventures forth to an organization with a winning culture where he can grow and mature as a man and player, learn what it takes to win. After winning two championships he returns home and after falling down 3 games to one, he orchastrated the greatest comeback ever seen in sports against the greatest team to ever play to finally make good on his childhood dream and bring a championship to a deprived city. ... That's the kind of shit you tell your kids before they go to bed. That's some Mighty Duck, Space Jam, Remember the Titans level shit right there. Only thing that could have made it better is if he rode off into the sunset afterwards.

THE KING 👑 there is no more comment

I’m a Blazer fan but LeBron is my favorite player of all time. What he’s accomplished is otherworldly. I’m thankful I’ve got to witness it from HS senior to now and until he retires with a few more rings and being the only player in history to reach 40K career points scored. Thank you LeBron James for 18 years and counting of sustained excellence. You are still the leagues MVP and the greatest of all time.

Not only did he defy the odds, he overachieved. greatness cant be faked. this man promised a City he loved a Championship after being wronged by their front office for 7 years, even being talked about like less of a man from the same front office he dragged to a Finals appearance, Just to do it again in 2017 & 2018. People call this man a traitor, disloyal and everything in the book. but he gave Cleveland the most important Finals win in NBA History. 73-9 team to blows a 3-1 deficit.

Love u LeBron James💖 Keep working hard do it for us!!!!!! Never give up on ur dreams everyone If someone brings u down that does not mean You have to give up. Look at LeBron, he made his dreams Come true that means if someone brings u down don't just stand there Do something. That does not stop anyone who cares what people say U follow ur dreams!!!!!!!!💖💖👍😌

THIS DESERVES MORE VIEWS!

Thanks bron to be a role model for all generations. Thanks for be working hard no matter all hating with out any reason against you. Your example of mentality excellence. The only way to proof to be mentally strong is to be tempted to fail and keep moving forward to be successful. I'm older than you, I'm a teacher in the United States. Honestly, I don't know if at night you sit and think about what you are really building as an example. But of one thing I am sure ..... people like you are needed as an example. Keep moving forward being Lebron.

Ahh the memories.. Life long pistons fan, but I always admired LeBron giving us hell during his first stint in the Land. Then I really started to appreciate him in Miami, and even tho I loved that Heat team seeing him return and win a ring was amazing. Now hes in LA for his life, and more than just the NBA so everyone should just let him be..

This video is litteraly perfect for Lebron, coming from a Laker fan. I respect you cavs.

Which LeBron Is Better? A. Cavs (2003-2010 B. Heat (2010-2014) C. Cavs (2014-2018) D. Lakers (2018-

Boy oh boy lebron, where do I even start, ever since you joined the league I knew you were something special, something amazing. I knew you would inspire so many people to be great. I knew you would

Just being a fan of lebron James for all these years have kept me going .He is the true definition of a role model

You can’t watch this and not say he isn’t the greatest player of our generation

Growing up witnessing his legendary career is something that I will treasure forever. Long live King James!

It’s 2023 and this is possibly the best video to exist on KZfaq. Lakers World Champs 2024

I remember 5 years ago watching this and how hype I was. Now I am still hype by this. And I just got the news I made my school team. The power of the chosen one👑👑👑👑

8 years later and this still brings me to fucking tears man. LeBron James… you are an AMERICAN HERO 🇺🇸🏀❤️

TOP 10 video in the history of KZfaq, no doubts.

I'm gonna watch this again once I become old, see you in 50 years!

I get those goosebumps every time...

best mix ever

"CLEVELAND THIS IS FOR YOU!"-Lebron James

I’ve never seen such dominant, impactful player in this game. From day 1 he was the best in league

I literally cried when lebron decided to come home. Fan since 2003

And now he’s with the Lakers 😭🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬but I would like to say thanks to Lebron for giving my city a 💍🏀🏀

Goodbye King, thanks for everything! Love ya, good luck with the Lakers

best mix of all time

No player ever had that much of expectations on his shoulders, yet somehow he managed to stay strong for more than 2 decades, never disappointed the team he played for. My inspiration, my GOAT.

This needs more views its probabaly one of the mixes out there! nice story line

what a emotional video.. thanks to the owner who create this.. when i was a kid.. i don't play basketball or watch the play.. but when i saw in a poster of nike.. only lebron james i really notice.. then i play basketball because of him.. #LebronJames23

I come back here every year man. Will never forget how I felt to hear bron was going back to the Land! Had me in tears lool! So glad we got to witness this guy from the beginning till now.

This is truly a cinematic masterpiece. I come back to this 1-2 times a year at least. I have not found another 5 minute video that tells such a story in such little time and with the great atmosphere it gives.

this made me cry😢😢

what lebron did with Cleveland his first 7 years in the nba proves he is goat

watched this video every day since i was a kid , and now lebron is still cooking up at 37 ! will come back to this comment when he wins his 5th ring 💍

LeBron "King" James, The GOAT! He gave Cleveland their Championship! And gave the Lakers their first Championship in 10 years.

Lebron is truly great and a basketball legend. He had good intentions even when he left Cleveland for miami and la. Hopefully him and his son can get them another championship. I am a diehard pistons fan and i truly appreciate you LeBron.

This song fits Lebron's career so fucking much

Everyone from 2020 remembering this video 🥺💯

Not a big bron fan but i did cry opening night against the knicks no gonna cap

1:22 always gives me chills

Stop hating lebron .he may be not the 🐐.but he's one of the leading candidates.

To the people in this comment section.. Who plays basketball.. All the best and keep playing... Cuz I got no one to support me in playing basketball.. Not even my family...

Bron just isnt a human daaaaaaamn with that pressure and critizism is just over over yet he exceed expectations 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

I'm a warriors fan but im so proud of Lebron he said it he do it for his land Cleveland i remember he promise Cleveland he will comeback and bring champion congrats LeBron and Cleveland 2 years ago you win the playoff for Cleveland

Thank you lebron for everything

The city of Cleveland long tortured without a chip for 50 years now has something to cheer about - that line does it for me

just witnessed history. Lebrun is the scoring champ!!!

Whose here after he broke the scoring record ? 🐐

HE won the most important championship in his career that made him a LEGEND

I used to watch this video back in 2016 and now I’m back

The first nba mix I watched started the rabbit hole of greatness and this is still goated will forever be my favorite