Report: LeBron James’ 11-year-old son has UK scholarship offer

A tidbit tucked into an ESPN story posted Monday afternoon about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors indicated that LeBron James’ 11-year-old son has standing scholarship offers from both Kentucky and Duke.

LeBron James Jr., who already has his own highlight mixtapes online, will be a sixth-grader this fall. That puts him in the recruiting class of 2023.

UK Coach John Calipari has hosted LeBron James — the NBA star, not the kid — as a courtside guest at Rupp Arena and visited with him a couple of summers ago when James Jr. played in Lexington with his AAU team.

Calipari would surely love to have the four-time NBA most valuable player around his program on a regular basis, though he’d have to remain UK’s coach for another eight seasons to get a chance to coach James Jr.

LeBron said last year in an interview with a Detroit television station that he’s not a fan of colleges showing interest in his son at such a young age. “It’s pretty crazy,” he said. “It should be a violation, you shouldn’t be recruiting 10-year-old kids.”

The Cavs superstar, who was in the national spotlight as a high school player, did praise his son’s skill set in that same interview.

“It’s crazy, he plays just like I did,” James said. “He has great awareness and he’d rather pass first and set guys up. Most kids nowadays just want to score.”

This story was originally published June 20, 2016 at 3:54 PM with the headline "Report: LeBron James’ 11-year-old son has UK scholarship offer."