Like part of my motivation when I was growing up,
was having nothing.
I knew that if I ever had an opportunity
to make it in life
I wanted to provide the next generation
for things that I didn’t have.
I’m always trying to find a way to continue to
empower and infuse life
into this community
which built me.
Naya, go get warm Naya. Get out of this cold.
Get out of this cold girl.
When I come home, it could be 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning.
I'll just get in my car.
Roll down the window just ride around town just like,
going to different landmarks where I grew up
and different gyms I might have played in,
you know?
It just settles me, I guess.
We are right now in House Three Thirty.
When I was a kid I came here for banquets after basketball tournaments
for us now to like own this place,
it's gonna be another resource for our families,
to gather, to eat, to enjoy.
We'll have workplaces here, for them to learn
and I can't wait for it all to come together.
The image of that is to make a
place for our families to gather
and be comfortable, be safe.
We’re training our culinary students
and giving people the kind of basic training that
is sometimes lacking in their lives.
Oh for sure.
You all be careful walking down these stairs now.
Have you been down these yet?
Not in the last, seven months.
[Director] I heard that this space was going to be like
a recreation of your Spring Hill environment?
[LeBron] Correct, yep.
I’m looking forward to seeing it be
a big old museum for our families and kids
on who I am and where I come from
but more importantly
what they have.
You know, this is their home.
A lot of the stuff that we're doing
still doesn't make sense to me.
Like, not in the sense of like, it doesn't make sense
like I don't comprehend, it’s just like
I literally grew up right around the corner from here.
I used to walk to that McDonald's that was right there
all the time.
There were times when I could literally go in there and buy stuff
and there were times I couldn’t.
And to know that we're like
just changing a whole community
right in front of our eyes is like so amazing.
When you're not from here, it's hard to get a grasp of it.
but like we get overlooked all the time so
for our community to have something of their own
It's meaningful.
Is there school going on today?
[Tyga] There is yeah, but a lot of students don't have class on Fridays so
[LeBron] Oh today is Friday.
[Tyga] It is. I know.
[LeBron] I lose track of days.
[Tyga] We got some students upstairs.
[LeBron] They just hanging out chillin?
[Tyga] Yeah this will be a fun surprise.
How are you?
Good. Miss you.
Miss you too.
Welcome home.
Thank you.
- Oh my god!
- What's going on y'all?
What's happening?
- You 'aight?
- Good man.
What's up with y'all
- How y'all feeling?
- Good, good.
This space is incredible.
when we have House Three Thirty for our job trainings
some of these students will be employed there.
So, it's really full circle giving them
that wrap around support service
It’s a game changer.
These are all our kids like,
Gotta have something for 'em
If we don't do it, who gonna do it?
You know?
My high school friends, we still got a group chat.
And we always talk about how the best time of our lives
was '99 and 2003.
It's the greatest time of our life.
Everybody's journey makes them who they are.
Because of the shortcomings and things
that I had to go through when I was younger
I wanted to make sure that the majority of the kids
that came from the same community didn't have to go through.
What y'all making? Cookies?
It's a competition, I’m gonna win though
You’re gonna win?
You just hope that,
you can leave it in a better place
than it was when you was growing up.
You know that you can set so many paths for the next generation
that the road is just easier for them.
My cookies are done.
What kind? Chocolate chip?
What's the prize?
I get bragging rights.
Aint nothing better than bragging rights I tell you that.
Ain't nothing better than bragging rights.
You want people to have to work for things obviously
and that's what our kids are doing.
that's what our families are doing.
But if they can have some resources
that can help them get there quicker and faster,
then,
Why not us?