On Monday Night Football with the Manning brothers — LeBron James was next up to join the crew and talk about all things football.
In the midst of their conversation, the Lakers star said that Jerry Jones and Pete Carroll offered him a contract.
Back in 2011, the NBA was in the midst of a lockout. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones offered James a contract to play for the Dallas Cowboys.
The Cowboys were in their first full year under head coach Jason Garrett, who had taken over in the interim for Wade Phillips
“We really started to actually train to be a football player,” James said in 2020. “We started to clock our times with the 40s. We started to add a little bit more with the bench press and things of that nature. We started to add a little more sled to our agenda with our workouts.”
James was a two-time all-state receiver in Ohio.
