Maybe it was the media saturation and attendant pundit adoration of Deion Sanders, Colorado’s new football coach, that spurred LeBron James’ ego into action. Coach Prime has been sucking a fair bit of the oxygen out of the sporting-world room for a couple of months now.

Or maybe it was an attempt to sustain the sugar high of besting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record, and the attendant veneration he enjoyed, that made him do it. Or maybe even the cruel reality that at 38 years old, the glory ride of NBA dominance, of being acclaimed best basketball talent of his generation, is finally hitting the front end of the landing strip. (READ MORE from Tom Raabe: Congress Jumps Into the NIL Debate)

For whatever reason, “King James” has gone and jumped the solipsistic shark. On Nov. 25, LeBron James will be opening in Akron, Ohio, a museum honoring himself. As the Daily Caller characterized it: “We’re talking ancient pharaoh levels of ego here.”

LeBron James’ Home Court will house mementos from the basketball superstar’s career, beginning from his days in 2002 when Sports Illustrated put him on the cover and proclaimed him “The Chosen One” for his exploits at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in his native Akron.

Visitors, ponying up a cool and symbolic $23 (his uniform number) for entry, will be able to view the all-white suit James donned at the 2003 NBA draft. They’ll be able to see his jerseys from this team or that, including the one he wore at the McDonald’s All American Game. Other memorabilia from his peripatetic professional career, from Cleveland to Miami back to Cleveland and on to Los Angeles, will be on display. And they’ll see the original backboard and rim from his high school gym.

Also featured will be an unusual clock, with the hour markers around the face comprised of 12 basketball shoes James wore in actual games.

A feature of the museum will be a realistic replica of the apartment James lived in, with his mother, as a boy … you know, like you might see at Mount Vernon or at Monticello. This will give museum-goers a chance to see up close the conditions in which this great figure of basketball history lived.

Now, of course, these sorts of exact replicas of living quarters of historic figures are usually available to tourists after the honoree is, well, you know, dead.

Which James is most definitely not. Which gives him total creative control of the contents of his museum. Which means the chances of an accurate portrayal of James’ legacy are about as great as his Lakers’ chances to win another NBA title.

However, if he were to seek fairness and accuracy, he would be forced to include many unflattering items. Among his many social warrior actions would be his tweet (later deleted) condemning, and then doxing, a policeman who saved the life of a girl by shooting her assailant who came at her with a knife. James tweeted a photo of the cop with the words “You’re Next … Accountability,” accompanied by an emoji of an hourglass.

Also included would be homage to the Chinese slave labor that reportedly makes the shoes and other personalized gear that reap James and other NBA stars millions of dollars. James has been outspoken in support of the Chinese connection. When an NBA general manager supported Hong Kongers demonstrating for freedom in 2022, creating a severe backlash from the PRC, James was quick to condemn the owner as “either misinformed or not really educated on the situation.” After all, NBA stars stand to lose millions if the shoe and clothing deals with Chinese firms ever dry up.

James’s philanthropic endeavors will take center stage at the museum, including fulsome praise for his educational enterprise, the I Promise School, which James started for underprivileged kids and students behind in their studies. While the effort is laudable, the academic results have been quite dismal. (READ MORE: A Warning for Coach Prime: What Goeth Before a Fall?)

Opened in 2018 as part of the Akron Public Schools system, the school is likely to find itself in the bottom 5 percent of Akron’s public schools and thus requiring oversight by the state. Turnover of teachers is reported to be high, and delinquency also runs high, with 45 percent of students being chronically absent in 2022.

While scores for third graders can be expected to be below average, because those admitted to the school in third grade are already behind, seventh graders, with four years of schooling behind them, also test extremely low. Only 8.2 percent of seventh graders tested proficient in English, and 1 percent in math.

And what museum of James’ “accomplishments” would be complete without an exhibit of “The Decision,” the egocentric 75-minute televised PR debacle from 2010 in which he made his announcement to “take his talents to South Beach” — that is, move from being a Cleveland Cavalier and become a member of the Miami Heat — that was cringe-making even for his biggest boosters?

So, if you’re ever cruising northeastern Ohio and run out of museums to take in, after visiting the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and you’ve got $23 burning a hole in your pocket and you’re itching to pay homage to the Egotist from Akron, you can always check out LeBron James’ Home Court.