This story has a happy ending.
A young girl had her parents buy tickets to a Lakers-Warriors game, hoping it would be the night that LeBron broke the scoring record.
Even though that didn’t happen, she was still hoping to see LeBron play, but a minor foot injury has kept him out of a couple of games.
Imagine her surprise when the King sat beside her on the bench. Her expression went viral immediately, and then she was interviewed by Lisa Salter, where she couldn’t hide her enthusiasm.
“When I heard that he had a foot injury, I was sad. We didn’t know if he was traveling with the team to this game or not,” she said. “Then when he ended up sitting down here, I’m not as tall as him, obviously, so I could only see his shoes. Then I look up and I see LeBron James and what’s going through my mind is, ‘Oh my God, the greatest player of all time in basketball is sitting next to me!’ I just freak out completely, I’m just thinking, ‘Oh my goodness this is like the best moment of my life.'” “This is incredible. It’s such an amazing moment.”
Social media had a lot of comments about how LeBron was ignoring the kid and Lisa Salters, even though he could hear them talking about him.
With that being said, it was in the middle of the game and not a timeout, so you have to forgive LeBron for not stopping what he was doing to talk to Salters or the kids.
The good news is though, after the game and a Lakers victory, LeBron took some time to take photos and talk to the young girl, which I am sure made her evening even more.
Flip the pages for all the hilarious moments from their interactions.