If LeBron James had chosen to play football in addition to basketball, he might have been one of the best multisport athletes in American history. According to Brian Windhorst, James committed to football for a very intriguing reason when he first started playing the game in his sophomore year.

Do you know why he was a football player? due to Aaliyah. After his second year, he had planned to retire from performing, but then his favourite singer, Aaliyah, passed away in a plane accident. He made the decision to stop living in fear. After Aaliyah passed away, he left the sidelines. He missed the first game of the year, the start of his junior year, and the second game without practice or training camp. He had 11 touchdowns, 1200 yards of running, and 12 games played. He was among the best wide receivers in the program’s history.

People are inspired by music to take actions they never would have imagined possible. Because playing football involves more physical danger than basketball, it demands more dedication than basketball. Given his success, basketball was the perfect sport for James, but it’s always intriguing to speculate as to how well he may have performed in the NFL.

James might have been a dual-sport athlete in the same vein as Deion Sanders, who participated in both MLB and the NFL.

LeBron James forbade his kids from playing football.

Windhorst saying James was scared of playing football until his sophomore year does make sense, given the strong stance he took regarding his sons playing football. In 2014, James declared unequivocally that he would not allow his kids to participate in the sport because of the physical risks involved.

“In my house, only basketball, baseball and soccer are permitted. Until they grasp how physically hard and intense the game is, we don’t want them to play in our home.

James did add a temporary deadline to those first remarks, but Bronny and Bryce James have demonstrated how publicly they conduct their school life. If either one dabbled in playing football, it’d be one of the biggest stories in sports. Thankfully, they’re committed to basketball and could follow LeBron’s footsteps into the league in the next few seasons.

Football or basketball was forced to be chosen by Allen Iverson.

The only other premier multi-sport athlete in the last three decades was Allen Iverson, who was an officially ranked football recruit during his high school years. However, his mother intervened and made him pick basketball over football, even though Iverson didn’t even like the sport

“I thought basketball was soft, and I hated it.” I played football my entire life. One day, my mom said, ‘You’re going to basketball practice’. I was like, ‘Playing basketball is soft.’ I thank my mom. If she didn’t tell me I was going to basketball practice that day, I would have never played.”

Iverson was a highly-touted quarterback prospect. He was ranked ahead of Peyton Manning in the high school class of 1995. We haven’t seen a dual-sport athlete like him in a generation, as Iverson was winning the Associated Press High School Player of the Year award in both football and basketball while also winning the Division 5 AAA Virginia state championship in both sports.