LeBron James Admits He Had No Idea What a Certain Space in Kitchens Were Used for
Today, LeBron James owns a few luxury homes with a real estate portfolio valued at more than $70 million. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar‘s properties include a custom-built mansion in Ohio, his nearly 10,000 square-foot Brentwood residence, and his $36.75 million Beverly Hills compound.
But LeBron came from humble beginnings in Akron and shared that growing up, he had no idea what a pantry was.
During a recent episode of his Mind the Game podcast, LeBron explained that he learned what that was when he was in high school, recalling, “I went to my high school coach’s house and asked him ‘Can I get a snack or like some chips?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, just go in the pantry.’ I’m like, ‘What the hell is a pantry?’
“I’m like ‘Where I grew up, everything is on top of the refrigerator, bruh — the bread, the chips, the cereal. Everything is on top of the refrigerator. I don’t know what the hell a pantry is.'”
These days, LeBron has homes with more than one kitchen and plenty of room for pantries, but when he was a kid in Akron and raised by a single mother, Gloria James, they lived in government housing projects called the Spring Hill Apartments.
The Athletic noted that at one point, Gloria and LeBron moved into “unit 602” which had “two bedrooms, one bigger than the other, complemented by one-and-a-half bathrooms” and a “gas stove next to the sink, opposite the single-door refrigerator in the kitchen.”
According to James, “That was my motivation, right there. Like, I gotta get my mama a pantry.”
In 2003, LeBron James bought Gloria a sprawling estate just outside of Akron, and we’re assuming it probably has a very nice pantry or two.
