LeBron James to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers
LeBron James announced on Friday that he will rejoin the Cleveland Cavaliers next season.
He is leaving Miami after sparking the Heat to two NBA titles and returning to the hometown club he spurned in 2010.
James, who grew up just south of Cleveland in Akron, ended a first-person essay told to Sports Illustrated with the words “I’m coming home.”
The four-time NBA Most Valuable Player confirmed the article with a Twitter posting.
James' Instagram post hit 150,000 likes in 10 minutes.
Twitter has been abuzz with the news.
CNBC reported that within an hour of the announcement, there were nearly 384,000 tweets mentioning his name.
Sources: CNBC, AFP
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