If you check out the profile of Team USA star and Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James on Basketball Reference, you’ll see the many nicknames people use to refer to, well, King James.
Apart from the King James nickname, here are the others listed on his B-Ref page: King James, LBJ, Chosen One, Bron-Bron, The Little Emperor, The Akron Hammer, L-Train, Benjamin Buckets, and Captain LeMerica.
That Captain LeMerica nickname is why you’re here reading this article because it got people on social media buzzing.
A new nickname for LeBron James is starting to take off: Captain LeMerica 🇺🇸@bball_ref even added it to LeBron's official profile 😂 pic.twitter.com/OQ6Xd0kkSU
— Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) July 31, 2024
They added "Captain LeMerica" 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/W5V2eUxWO9
— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) July 30, 2024
Basketball Reference added Captain LeMerica to LeBron’s nicknames 😂 pic.twitter.com/hSUoXNEpNV
— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) July 30, 2024
Here are more reactions not just to the Captain LeMerica nickname but to the others as well:
“Best nickname” – @Muse_DeMar
“Akron Hammer pause” – @Lebromelo
“When tf was he called Benjamin Buckets?” – @Joel_Alexander6
“The Akron hammer is crazy 😭😭😭” – @j4lexis
“The first two letters of LeBron’s name go with everything! Le-Everything! 😭” – @Sickopatomous
With a career like no other in basketball, James surely deserves to get all kinds of nicknames. It also helps that his name is incredibly meme-able, with fans always trying to affix anything to the “Le” portion of his first name.
James and Team USA are currently in Paris competing in the Olympics. They have already scored a win by defeating Serbia in their opener and will next square off against South Sudan this Friday. In the 110-84 win over Serbia, James scored 21 points, grabbed seven rebounds, and recorded nine assists in nearly 27 minutes of floor duty.
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