LeBron James

CTL-E-5891 · Person · other · 1984–present

STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-03022 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1121 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5891. Master record source: User-supplied list 2026-10-16 (UrbanGeekz/Forbes figures) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

LeBron James, born LeBron Raymone James on 30 December 1984 in Akron, Ohio, is an American basketball player widely considered one of the greatest all-around players of all time. A prodigy at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in Akron, where he won three state championships, he was the first overall pick of the 2003 NBA draft. He has won four NBA championships with three different teams — the Miami Heat (2012, 2013), the Cleveland Cavaliers (2016) and the Los Angeles Lakers (2020) — and four NBA MVP awards, and he holds three Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012, 2024). On 7 February 2023 he passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 38,387 points to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer, and on 2 March 2024 he became the first player in league history to reach 40,000 career points. After eight seasons with the Lakers (2018–2026), Britannica's October 2026 update lists him with the Philadelphia 76ers.

The record

• Also known as: LeBron Raymone James, King James
• Role(s): billionaire, business founder
• Known for: First active NBA player to reach billionaire status (2022)

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no LeBron James entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5891 free. Provenance: Built in Census Intake Wave 2 and held because intake order closed that window at rank 1000; staged here in ledger order; re-verified against the live graph at 3,603 entities (Gate A re-run 2026-10-16: still absent). Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1011 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American basketball figure. Vital status: LIVING — active in the 2026–27 NBA preseason with the Philadelphia 76ers (Britannica team list updated 14 October 2026; October 2026 fixture listings). EDGE BASIS: played_for → Los Angeles Lakers (CTL-E-1780) is staged for the 2018–2026 Lakers tenure documented by Britannica; the later 76ers move does not disturb that historical edge. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 38,387 points on 7 February 2023 (AP); first to 40,000 career points, 2 March 2024 vs Denver (AP) — accessed 2026-10-16. RE-VERIFICATION (Wave 3, 2026-10-16): still LIVING and a Philadelphia 76ers player — preseason debut for Philadelphia against Brooklyn on 8 October 2026, 10 points in 18 minutes (USA Today, 8 October 2026), consistent with the held record's Britannica team list. The staged played_for edge to the Los Angeles Lakers remains a historical 2018–2026 edge; no correction required. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and NBA/press photography of LeBron James is extensive; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5891-lebron-james.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normalized forms — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normal) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Relationships

• Black Billionaires — appears on
  STRONG EVIDENCE
• Los Angeles Lakers — played for
  LeBron James played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2018 to 2026, winning the 2020 NBA championship with the team (Britannica team list, updated 14 October 2026).

Referenced by

• Bronny James — child of → this record
• Kheris Rogers — related to → this record

Sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, "LeBron James" (updated 14 October 2026) — born 30 December 1984, Akron, Ohio; teams Cleveland (2003–10, 2014–18), Miami (2010–14), Los Angeles Lakers (2018–26), Philadelphia 76ers (2026– ); four championships (2012, 2013, 2016, 2020); four MVP awards; Olympic golds 2008, 2012, 2024; all-time leading scorer in 2023; first to 40,000 points in 2024 — http://www.britannica.com/biography/LeBron-James (build store)
• Associated Press, via BusinessMirror (3 March 2024) — reached 40,000 career points on 2 March 2024 against Denver, the first player to do so; passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 38,387 on 7 February 2023 against Oklahoma City — https://businessmirror.com.ph/2024/03/03/lebron-james-40000-pt-man/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "LeBron James" — first overall pick of the 2003 NBA draft, selected by Cleveland; St. Vincent–St. Mary, three state titles and three Ohio Mr. Basketball awards; playing career 2003–present — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James (build store)
• https://urbangeekz.com/2025/04/american-black-billionaires-forbes-2025-list/ (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Forbes 2025 list membership; net worth $1.3B as of the April 2025 list; first active NBA player to become a billionaire (2022)

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