LeBron James and members of his Saint Vincent-St.Mary High School basketball team met with media at Seward Park on Tuesday and discussed their upcoming documentary, "More Than a Game."
The notoriously playful LeBron James wasn't so playful when he met with the Chicago media on Tuesday, but that's going to happen when the first question involves Chicago's murder rate.
The Cleveland Cavaliers star visited Seward Park on behalf of Nike to promote his new documentary "More Than a Game" and to honor 1,000 After School Matters NeighborSports youth. James was asked how his appearance could influence teens in Chicago, a city with a high murder rate, and he was forced to go over his decision not to shake hands or speak to the media after getting eliminated from the playoffs in May.
I asked James if he will be doing any other movies any time soon. After all, the guy wasn't too shabby when he hosted "Saturday Night Live."
"It's pending," he responded. "You ever send somebody a blackberry message where it says pending on the bottom of it. Well, it's pending. We'll see if it happens. Hopefully we'll make it happen soon."
What does James think of his new teammate Shaquille O'Neal's movies?
"They're good," said James. "That's my teammate."
The Chicago stop was the first of 10 cities on James' World Tour, which focuses on getting youth involved in sports and charity. It will also be a promotional tour for the film, which is expected to hit theaters in October.
"I don't regret anything that I do. The only thing I apologize for that night is not doing the media," James said, before adding "As far as shaking hands...if it was something like tennis, you play, you win, you lose, you go to the center and shake hands. It happens every game in tennis. In basketball, you have 82 games, there are guys that don't shake hands. I will not apologize for shaking nobody's hand. I will never accept losing."
James than had his sportsmanship questioned, which put him on the defensive -- and understandably so.
"Teamwork has nothing to do with shaking hands," said James, annoyed. "I'm not a poor sport at all...who brought up the rule that shaking hands is what you're supposed to do?"
Sitting next to James were his coach and four teammates from his St. Vincent-St. Mary High School basketball team. They joined James to promote "More Than a Game," a documentary about their high school days and friendship.
"To see what I've done as an individual and what my friends have been able to do since we graduated high school has been remarkable," James said. "The fact that we're still together, talking on a day-to-day baisis, that's even more moving to me than anything that could come out of this movie."
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