This is the story of what we call King James here in Cleveland. It is wrote in a simple manner and you can feel the love, passion, frustration of his growin up years in this writing. His life didn't start easy, he had to fight for his own every day but God put people in his path, who kept from just being another poor boy from the projects gone bad. The friends he found along the way are still his true friends, and no matter what they stuck together like glue. For young men who are struggling, don't know to follow thier dream or just need hope this is the book to give to them. He was frank and truthful in this book, a very short sentence mentions pot use and getting drunk in his late teenage years, but so much of the media jumped on it. It really wasn't worth all that. And yes probably the Hummer was the wrong thing to give him for a present at 18, but his mom did it out of love for her son that always showed respect. And the people who gave her the loan was betting that he was going to the NBA and money wouldn't be an issue. Now if he would of not made it, then it would of been repo'd. And the jerseys he got, well he was a wide eye teenager and was in awe about the jerseys, how was he to know it was wrong? He was 17 and was an instant made celebrity to the media, but to him he wanted to hang with his friends and play ball. He wrote this book to share his life with the world, but some things he keeps private and we should respect that. He admits where he made mistakes and even in taking credit he shares the limelight with others.