Male Athlete of the Year

Lebron James! The greatest basketball player of all time in my opinion. If you know me you know I love Lebron James and a huge supporter for him. I recently read in an magazine article that he received the male athlete of the year for the second time. He won this award because he has won two back to back national championships. I highly recommend everyone who has never seen this beast play in person to go see him play. Even if your not a basketball fan, watching this King play his craft is probably the most exciting thing a person can watch of the game. He is inhuman. He has a 6'8 frame and ways 260lbs. He has the feet a ballet dancer, but has the explosiveness of a volcano. He is impossible to guard and can play any position he desires too. James is the most versatile player ever to hit the game.The only thing that keeps LeBron James up worrying at night is basketball, which simultaneously makes perfect sense and no sense.On one hand, he's the game's best player.On the other, he's rarely impressed with himself. Even after a year like 2013, with a spectacular wedding, a second NBA championship and a fourth MVP award were among the many highlights enjoyed by the Miami Heat star, he still is, as he puts it, striving for greatness. Or, technically, more greatness, since his enormous list of accomplishments just keeps growing. James was announced Thursday as The Associated Press' 2013 male athlete of the year, becoming the third basketball player to capture the award that has been annually awarded since 1931. James received 31 of 96 votes cast in a poll of news organizations, beating Peyton Manning and Jimmie Johnson."I'm chasing something and it's bigger than me as a basketball player," James told the AP. "I believe my calling is much higher than being a basketball player. I can inspire people. Youth is huge to me. If I can get kids to look at me as a role model, as a leader, a superhero … those things mean so much, and that's what I think I was built for. I was put here for this lovely game of basketball, but I don't think this is the biggest role that I'm going to have." I like how Lebron James handles things now. He seems to have matured since coming into the league and will always get lots of criticsism.  what he could do better. Nobody could handle anything better as he did the last couple years. As he said, he is just a superhero of our time.