'The King' has now followed in the footsteps of Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson, in creating an animated version of his self, or selves in his case. You see, where the above mentioned Pro Stars gang teamed up to sell cereal, Lebron has ditched D-Wade and Chris Bosh in his attempts to sell Nike shoes.
In their place are 3 other alter-ego injustice-fighting versions of Lebron: The Kid - a fun-loving wannabe B-baller, The Athlete - Lebron as we know him now, Business - the smooth talking ladies/money man envied by the kids, that is until they grow up and realize he's a gangster, and Wise - the patio-dwelling, rocking chair bound, advice-wielding old man.
Created, Exec. Produced, and featuring the voice of Cleveland's Public Enemy #1, The series debuted on YouTube Monday, April 4th to little fanfare, that is if you go by page views which were only at 771 at the time of writing, 11:30am EST, April 6th. After checking it out for myself, I don't know which part is more offensive, the 'Bing' product placement or the blatant rip-off of 'The Usual Suspects'??
UPDATE: One day later and all mentions to the Lebrons cartoon are now deleted on Youtube. Maybe it has something to do with the paltry 700 views???
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