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GQ
"The World's 50 Greatest Living Athletes," November 2017

Fred Woodward, Designer
Pari Dukovic, Photographer

"When the World's Greatest Living Athlete is also an off-the-court phenom in business, in movies, and increasingly in politics, the time allotted for a photo shoot is limited (it was 45-minutes from the frame to the last). But photographer Pari Dukovic nevertheless captured LeBron James in a timeless, almost deified image that shows the strength, fierceness, and regal nature of GQ’s November cover subject. One worthy of blowing up and framing like a piece of art (which we did)."

If I had to critique this picture I would say that, even though the intention of this picture is to show that he is the king, he could have smiled. I feel like the picture needs to be less dark and needs to have more colors than just grey, white, and gold. He is furrowing his brows, and it gave him forehead wrinkles. They could have made his tattoos merge into the words, because that also looks slightly odd. They could have put a different person entirely in the cover too, but they choose LeBron because he's the most popular. That isn't necessarily true though, because Curry is just as if not more popular than LeBron. 

I STILL LOVE HIM THOUGH!!!!!!!