re: Lebron: The odds have been stacked against me...

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LeBron's mother, Gloria James, was 16 years old when she had LeBron. He never met his father, Michael Wise of the Washington Post reports. They grew up in poverty, and when LeBron's grandmother died when he was 5, the city condemned their house.

Between ages 5 and 8, LeBron moved 12 times, he said in his book.

He told 60 Minutes about that period, "We had pressures as far as where the hell we gonna sleep at. You know, from night, day to day, night to night. How we gonna eat from day to day, night to night?"

LeBron missed 100 days of school in fourth grade because he didn't have the transportation to get there, he told Matt McMillen of WebMD Magazine in 2010.

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