LeBron James
Chosen and the Weight of GreatnessBy Jason C. Turner
Length2h 10m
About this audiobook
He was chosen before he ever chose anything for himself.
At sixteen years old, a Sports Illustrated cover declared him the future of American basketball, a title he never asked for and could not put down. What followed was not a simple rise to stardom, but two decades lived almost entirely in public: a childhood defined by instability, a hometown that needed him to be its savior, a decision that turned him into the most hated man in his sport overnight, and a redemption arc so complete it ended with him in tears on a basketball court, having finally kept a promise he made to a city that had waited fifty-two years to hear it.
CHOSEN: LeBron James and the Weight of Greatness is the definitive account of one of the most scrutinized lives in modern sports, a biography that refuses to flatten its subject into a highlight reel. It begins not with a superstar, but with a sixteen-year-old single mother in a struggling Ohio factory town, and the football coach who took her son into his own home simply because he noticed the boy needed somewhere steady to land. From that act of quiet generosity, a story unfolds that spans state championships and national scandal, an MVP trophy that still wasn’t enough, a televised announcement that made him a villain, and a comeback for the ages that no team in history had ever completed.
This is a book about talent, but it is just as much a book about cost. It follows the psychological toll of being evaluated, second-guessed, and mythologized before adulthood; the grinding, unglamorous discipline required to stay elite into your late thirties; and the deliberate, hard-won reinvention of a man who turned the worst failure of his career into the foundation for its greatest triumph. It follows him off the court too, into boardrooms and investment portfolios, into a school he built in his hometown for children who grew up the way he did, and into a locker room where, for the first time in NBA history, he suited up alongside his own son.
Structured chronologically and driven by narrative tension rather than statistics alone, CHOSEN moves from a fourth grader who missed a hundred days of school to a global business figure worth over a billion dollars, without ever losing sight of the human being at the center of the story. It does not settle the endless debate over basketball’s greatest player. Instead, it asks a more interesting question: what does it actually cost to become chosen, and what do you owe the people and places that chose you first?
For readers of transformative sports biography, character-driven nonfiction, and stories of resilience under extraordinary public pressure, CHOSEN delivers both the drama of a life-altering childhood and the payoff of a legacy that is, unmistakably, still being written.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Other
Length2 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2LeBron James
3Acknowledgments
4Foreword
5Chapter 1: A City Built on Rubber and Grit
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 2: The Family That Chose Him
7Chapter 3: St. Vincent-St. Mary
8Chapter 4: The Chosen One
9Chapter 5: Drafted by Destiny
10Chapter 6: Carrying Cleveland
11Chapter 7: MVP Years and Mounting Pressure
12Chapter 8: The Decision
13Chapter 9: Villain in Miami
14Chapter 10: Redemption and Rings
15Chapter 11: The Return
16Chapter 12: 3-1
17Chapter 13: More Than an Athlete
18Chapter 14: Lakers and Legacy Building
19Chapter 15: Chasing the Record
20Chapter 16: Father, Mentor, Teammate
21Chapter 17: The Weight of Greatness
22Chapter 18: The Business of Being King
23Chapter 19: Akron Never Left Him
24Chapter 20: Conclusion: What Chosen Means
More from Jason C. Turner
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIĆJason C. Turner2h 2m$6.50 · $0.00
THE BLOOD MOON PACTJason C. Turner3h 34m$8.50 · $0.00
JAY SHETTY BIOGRAPHYJason C. Turner2h 39m$8.50 · $0.00
THE HOLLOW TIDEJason C. Turner3h 21m$8.50 · $0.00
THE WOLF AND THE HOLLOWJason C. Turner3h 13m$8.50 · $0.00
THE MARKEDJason C. Turner4h$8.50 · $0.00
THE BLOOD MOON LEDGERJason C. Turner3h$8.50 · $0.00
THE LEFT HAND OF DESTINYJason C. Turner2h 48m$8.50 · $0.00
THE SILENCE IN THE BELL TOWERJason C. Turner3h 21m$8.50 · $0.00
STILL HEREJason C. Turner3h 26m$8.50 · $0.00
THE ECHO OF THINGSJason C. Turner3h 22m$8.50 · $0.00
Send MeMarty Skovlund, Joe Kent8h 10m4.7 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Annotated)John Muir10h 13m4.7 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m4.7 (3.2K)$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m4.7 (5K)$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (384)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
I Am The StormJanice Dean9h4.6 (1.5K)$8 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
Just as I AmCicely Tyson16h 8m4.6 (99K)$33 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis7h 7m4.4 (519.7K)$24 · $0.00
Her Daily BreadKate Wood12h 57m4.6 (153)$33 · $0.00
The Holy Bible - 1 SamuelKing James2h 13m4.8 (1.6K)$3 · $0.00
The American Standard Bible — The Gospel of MatthewMatthew3h 56m4.7 (3K)$2 · $0.00
Bad Fat Black GirlSesali Bowen6h 32m4.7 (2.8K)$24 · $0.00
The King James Audio Bible New Testament CompleteChristopher Glyn20h 2m4.7 (2.6K)$12 · $0.00
Faiths CheckbookCharles Spurgeon12h 44m4.7 (3.2K)$11 · $0.00
Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child's Mental HealthDr. Billy Garvey4h 53m4.7 (2.4K)$20 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
The Chosen Book OneAmanda Jenkins, Kristen Hendricks, Dallas Jenkins3h 8m4.6 (4.9K)$10 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of LukeJ.C. Ryle27h 13m4.7 (536)$18 · $0.00
CrossroadsKaleb Dahlgren7h 56m4.6 (4.9K)$26 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Brain Training for RidersAndrea Monsarrat Waldo5h 56m4.7 (550)$19 · $0.00
My Effin' LifeGeddy Lee17h 11m4.6 (13.1K)$40 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
The Elementia Chronicles #2: The New OrderSean Fay Wolfe11h 17m4.6 (841)$29 · $0.00
The ActsLuke2h 55m4.6 (19.7K)$12 · $0.00
Woodcraft and Camping (Annotated)George Washington Sears3h 30m4.6 (1.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
You may also like
The Journey HomeJorge Posada, Gary Brozek12h 25m4.1 (565)$29 · $0.00
Ragged DickJr. Horatio Alger5h 39m3.6 (4.5K)$2.30
Old Path White CloudsThich Nhat Hanh16h 39m4.6 (15K)$25
Aven Green Baking MachineDusti Bowling1h 19m4.3 (471)$15
Why So Serious?Mike Singer11h 10m4.3 (883)$29 · $0.00
The Story of My Life and Work: An AutobiographyBooker T. Washington9h 16m4.2 (254)$2 · $0.00
Through My EyesTim Tebow10h 18m4.3 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
Young Fu of the Upper YangtzeElizabeth Foreman Lewis6h 36m3.9 (5.9K)$1 · $0.00
Learning AmericaLuma Mufleh6h 37m4.4 (564)$24 · $0.00
The Making of a MiracleMike Eruzione, Neal Boudette7h 8m4.5 (1.9K)$24 · $0.00
Otter: The Best Job Ever!Samuel Garton4m4.1 (256)$4 · $0.00
The Measure of a ManSidney Poitier8h4.0 (15.3K)$26 · $0.00
The Boy Who Loved BatmanMichael E. Uslan10h 27m4.2 (511)$20 · $0.00
Doubles Disaster (Tennis Camp Diaries, #1)Ash Barty, Jasmin McGaughey1h 16m4.4 (19)$16 · $0.00
Self-Denial; or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary SocietyAmerican Sunday-School Union18m$2 · $0.00
MikePelham Grenville Wodehouse12h 33m$1 · $0.00
The Backwoods Boy Or The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham LincolnJr. Horatio Alger6h 1m3.8 (40)$2.30
Epic Athletes: LeBron JamesDan Wetzel2h 43m4.0 (56)$15
The boys of Columbia High on the diamond : or, Winning out by pluckGraham B. Forbes2h 7m$2 · $0.00
Risen From The RanksJr. Horatio Alger6h 34m3.8 (40)$2.30