LeBron James Wants to Be the Tyler Perry of the NBA

Did you hear the news? LeBron James, a.k.a. the best basketball player in the world, is developing a television sitcom with the Starz Network. It's about a superstar basketball player with a prematurely receding hairline who ditches his home town on national television and then wins a bunch of championships somewhere else.

Okay, that's not true. The show is not actually autobiographical, and I have no idea if the character in the show will have a receding hairline, or if he will stab his home town in the back live on ESPN. But he is an NBA basketball player whose talent takes him out of the slums.

The show is called Survivor's Guilt. Here is how King James described it to USA Today:

I think the main thing for me is, first of all, making it out of a place where you're not supposed to. You're supposed to be a statistic and end up like the rest of the people in the inner city—being one of the few to make it out and everyone looking at you to be the savior. When you make it out, everyone expects for—they automatically think that they made it out and it's very tough for a young, African-American 18-year-old kid to now hold the responsibility of a whole city, of a whole community. I can relate to that as well.

So, okay, fine. Maybe it's a little autobiographical.

The show isn't in production yet, there is no cast, and there is still no timeline or premier date. But Survivor's Guilt is officially happening. LeBron is the executive producer, as is his good buddy and business partner Maverick Carter, Rosanne producer Tom Werner, and actor Mike O'Mally.

Yay?