Gloria James, female, is the mother of American professional basketball player LeBron James. In May 2010, the scandal between her and her son teammate Deronti West became the focus of the US media hype...
Character anecdotes
When LeBron James was named the regular season MVP of the Season in September 2008, the person he was most thankful for was his mother standing next to him, as James said: "I know everything, I know how to score, I know how to beat opponents, but I don't know how you as a single mother raised me as an adult." 」 ”
James's mother was indeed very great, James's mother Gloria gave birth to James at the age of 16, when Gloria's family conditions were so bad that she had to take little James to her mother, Freda, and dragged her boyfriend Eddie into Freda's home. But At the time, Freda was already ill and soon left her daughter and little James. From then on, Gloria began to learn how to be a mother, taking James to find a job to support the family life, and it was in that environment that James grew up in.
At first, Gloria and James lived a "nomadic" life, with no fixed home, and for six years, she moved to Elizabeth Park on West Cowley Street in Akron several times, living in the homes of some of her mother's friends during her mother's lifetime, and never owned her own real home. But in Gloria's heart, she has always thought about how to make little James live a happy life like many white families, she desperately wants to find a job, early and late home, Gloria said: "I have done a lot of work, ordinary people can't imagine, but I don't care about other people's eyes, I just want LeBron to grow up happily." 」 ”
In Gloria's eyes, life is difficult, and she also has to raise James as an adult and hopes that he will one day get ahead. At that time, near Elizabeth Park, there were always many "black events" happening, and little James was inevitably affected by some, such as skipping class and obsessing with playing games. Although Gloria had no culture, she knew that going on would ruin her son, and she began to educate James to get rid of those bad lives. Growing up, James recalled that when he was a child, he would always say: "Although we did not have a fixed home, my mother always taught me that she wanted me to avoid bad habits such as drug use and theft." ”
Many local residents who were in contact with and living with James's mother and son at the time also felt that Gloria had brought James on the "right track" in time, "Gloria was a good person, a good mother," recalled a resident named Merton. ”