Before emerging as one of the NBA's brightest stars, Heat forward LeBron James was one of Ohio's most talented high school football players.
Now, with the 2011 NBA season in jeopardy, James is turning his attention back toward football — or at least that's what he's got his fans thinking.
Early Tuesday afternoon, less than one day after NBA commissioner David Stern announced that the first two weeks of the NBA season would be canceled, ESPN NFL analyst John Clayton sent out a tweet stating that the NFL trade deadline is next Tuesday.
About an hour later, James replied to Clayton's tweet with a follow-up question:
"When is the deadline for a team to sign a free agent?"
Clayton later responded to James, informing him that there is no deadline for teams to sign free agents, to which LeBron replied, "All good, Thanks Clayton!"
James' tweets — which came just a week after LeBron practiced in full pads with the football team at his former high school, St. Vincent-St. Mary, in Akron, Ohio — got the attention of his nearly 2.6 million followers, many of whom offered messages of support should the two-time NBA MVP and seven-time All-Star make the jump to the NFL.
It's not clear whether James' messages were a matter of professional interest or just an NFL fan's thirst for knowledge, but this isn't the first time James has publicly flirted with the idea that he could be an NFL player.
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