In public, LeBron James is the best basketball player on the planet and arguably the biggest athlete of our generation, but in private James’ role as King fits perfectly with the dynamic of his household, so says his wife.
“He is truly a king to his queen, if you will,” LeBron’s wife, Savannah James told the Cleveland Magazine. “He treats me with so much respect – I mean, it’s hard not to love him, with the way that he is with me and the kids and his mom and just everyone who’s around him. He’s a really, really humble guy for everything that he has and everything that he has done.”
James sat down with her hometown magazine to open up about their love and how they live a normal life outside of LeBron’s celebrity. The couple met in high school and at first, James had little interest in the superstar. At that time, LeBron was already one of, if not the best player in the area, who went on to grace the cover of magazines, be featured on Sportscenter and be drafted in the first round, straight out of high school. But it took a mutual friend’s encouragement for her to actually pursue him.
“I’m like, ‘Um, nope. I’ll take his number [then] one day I’m sitting around – I was probably bored or something – and I’m like, ‘Oh, I forgot! I have this number for this guy that I can call. He seemed interested, so let’s see.’”
Since that moment, the two have been together inseparable. LeBron proposed in 2011, and the two jumped the broom in 2013. They have three beautiful children, one, who is already a force to be reckoned with on the court. But together, the two raise their children to be kings and queen of the next generation.
“They’re not rewarded for mediocrity. I believe that my kids can do anything they put their minds to,” she said. “We are just normal people from Northeast Ohio. You can look at it as a very good thing because maybe we don’t understand what we could be. But to me, that’s much more stressful – it takes much more energy rather than just being yourself. And I feel like that’s definitely rubbed off on our kids.”
But aside from being a wife and mother of three, James says she is passionate about giving back to the community and she gets the motivation from her husband.
“He’s super, super passionate about his philanthropic endeavors. He’s super, super passionate about his athletic abilities, doing everything he needs to do to stay in tip-top shape to make sure that he can help his team do what they need to do on the court,” she said, adding that, “I just try to mirror that drive in everything that I do.”
