No matter what happens with the Los Angeles Lakers this season, the summer of 2021 will mark another major accomplishment for LeBron James with the release of “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” And as part of the promotion for the Space Jam reboot with LeBron, Entertainment Weekly did a cover story on LeBron and the Tune Squad with Bugs, Lola and Daffy.
LeBron James was thrilled to share the cover and he addressed once again how big of a deal it is for him to be in his own “Space Jam” movie in the cover story.
“There was a lot of films growing up for me, but Space Jam was up there,” James told EW of Micheal Jordan’s 1996 classic. “For my friends and I, just growing up, loving the NBA, obviously loving Michael Jordan, and loving the Looney Tunes, it was an automatic and a very organic blend between the two worlds. It was fun to see what MJ and Bugs and Taz and all those great Tunes were able to go through in that first movie. It was pretty cool, as a kid, wanting to see the same inspiration from movies and from people that you look up to, and people that you watch on a day-to-day basis. So it definitely was a big part of my childhood.”
But the Entertainment Weekly cover wasn’t just a story for the magazine. The I Promise school in Akron also got their own special cover.
Y’ALL NOT READY FOR THIS SQUAD!!!! 😱🐰🥕👑 @spacejammovie @EW pic.twitter.com/8ogu758fsO
— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 4, 2021
“Space Jam: A New Legacy” is set for theatrical release on June 16 and it will also premiere on HBO Max.
