LeBron James ‘Super-Humbled’ To Win Olympics MVP Award

NBA legend LeBron James won the Olympics MVP Award after leading Team USA to the gold medal. 

LeBron, the leading scorer in NBA history, has now won three gold medals with Team USA. 

“It’s an honor,” LeBron said, via Marc J. Spears of Andscape. “I don’t know who the voting committee, or whatever the case may be, but super-humbled that they even voted for me,” James said. “But it came with us winning gold and that’s what’s more important for me. It’s pretty cool.

“It’s really a global game. Everybody in the world loves the game. You see obviously the last two games with us vs. Serbia, us vs. France. But seeing the competitive teams like Puerto Rico, South Sudan, making a push, Australia’s still pretty good, and so many more teams are going to continue to get better and better. Germany won the [FIBA] World Cup last year. It’s a basketball world and everybody loves the game. We just hope we continue to inspire people all over the world and we have great moments right here.”

Team USA beat France in the gold medal game. LeBron’s wife, two sons and daughter were in Paris to watch him at what was likely his last Olympics. 

“It means everything,” LeBron said. “It’s why I do it. I do it for my family. My wife takes care of the business, man. She’s the best. Without her, I wouldn’t even be in this position to be able to do what I do and love the game. I love it. So, to have my wife and my two boys and my daughter here and the rest of my family here, it was everything.”

LeBron is a four-time MVP, a four-time Finals MVP and a four-time champion. He has career averages of 27.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.4 assists, 1.5 steals and 0.7 blocks with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers.

LeBron, 39, is the only player to rank top five all-time in points and assists, the only player to win three Finals MVPs with three different teams, the only player with 30,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 career assists and the only player to score 40,000 points.