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It's a measure of the phenomenon that’s LeBron James that multiple posters of his face adorn the front of Dubray’s on Galway’s Shop Street

WELL-ROUNDED: Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James celebrates after passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer in February. Pic: AP Photo/Ashley Landis

Tue, 18 Apr, 2023 - 06:45

Kieran Shannon

Kieran Shannon is an award-winning sportswriter renowned for big interviews, insightful columns and an unrelenting focus on high‑performance sport.

Though it isn’t quite as monumental as making the cover of Sports Illustrated while still only a kid in high school or being the first black man to be put on the cover of Vogue, it’s a measure of the phenomenon that’s LeBron James that multiple posters of his face adorn the front of Dubray’s on Galway’s Shop Street.

To our knowledge James, unlike the golf nut that is Michael Jordan, has never set foot in Ireland, yet such is his reach that a new biography of him is so prominent in a book store in a country and city hardly known for its love of hoops.

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