LeBron James: MJ, s---, I was born in '84, the year he came into the league. He won his first championship in 1991, 1992 that's around the time I first started watching basketball and when I first started playing. My first year playing basketball I was 9-years-old, so that was '92. So all those timelines kind of fit perfect to me. And his last championship was '98, that's one year before I go into high school and I'm starting to pick it up. So everything kind of worked that way. And what he was doing inspired me so much.

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