lebron started playing basketball at the age of 18.
at what age did lebron start playing basketball?
18
green was born in sydney to australian mother cahla and american-born father delmas. his parents met while both were playing semi-professional basketball in australia. the couple decided to raise a family in the north-west sydney suburb of castle hill where josh began playing basketball at the age of five when his mother started coaching him. along with playing local basketball for the hills hornets as a child, green tried an array of sports as a junior and excelled in australian rules football, athletics, basketball, rugby, soccer and swimming. by the age of 10, he had been selected to represent his home state of new south wales in nine separate sports. in fifth grade, green traveled more than 12 hours by car to the outback town of broken hill in an attempt to gain selection for the under-12 state basketball team and was told he was good enough to be on the team but would have to wait a year or two so the older boys could play. 12 months later, he captained the under-12 nsw metro state team to a national title.
josh green (basketball)
joão's first sport was always football which he started to play officially in the 80' when he was 15 at s.t. (serviços de tropas) and was at that time trained by coach shibia at the angolan youth championship called caçulinhas da bola in luanda. suddenly joão got very tall for his age and many friends including his coach shibia advised him to leave football and start playing basketball because of his size. he then moved on to asa (atletico sport aviação) in the basketball youth team and got the opportunity of playing against the likes of ademar vitoriano "baduna", justino vitoriano "puna" which later become angolan basketball stars and even represented angola at the world cup and olympic games. in 1991 at the age of 19 he moved to portugal and played basketball in leiria having participated in the local youth championship playing against teams such as sporting clube de portugal, barreirense and academica, while he was studying at domingos sequeira secondary school in leiria. by 1993 he signed for famalicense of portugal's north zone second division and after a short spell he left due to limited number of foreign players imposed by the league at that time. he then pursued his basketball career playing for minho university at the local championship having travelled with the team around europe for students championships. in 1996 he decided to stop playing basketball and went back on football until he finished his studies, playing as a striker.
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