COLUMBUS >> It’s safe to say LeBron James feels right at home on the campus of Ohio State University. Workers were still filtering into the Jerome Schottenstein Center on Oct. 12 to prepare for that night’s preseason game between Memphis and the Cavaliers when the familiar sound of a bouncing basketball was heard coming from the court. James was already at work at what many might consider his home away from home. Ohio State University. James never went to college. He didn’t need to. His basketball skills took him straight from St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron to the NBA. Advertisement But the love affair between James and Ohio State has always been strong. All you have to do is walk around Ohio State and see his locker in the basketball Buckeyes’ locker room, his case of Nike shoes outside the locker room and his presence at numerous OSU football games over the years. James embraces Ohio State as much as Ohio State embraces him. “It’s very humbling,” James said between his personal shooting session before other Cavalier players arrived and the team’s actual shootaround, “especially knowing I never stepped foot on a college campus as a player or as a student…
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