--- title: LeBron James Takes Selfie With Fan During Game description: Wednesday night marked another historic moment for LeBron James, but for once it didn't have anything to do with his basketball skills. canonical: https://time.com/4066430/lebron-james-selfie-with-fans-during-game/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-08T15:56:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:45.516Z og:title: Watch LeBron James Take a Selfie With Fans During a Game og:description: We can't wait to see how it turned out og:url: https://time.com/4066430/lebron-james-selfie-with-fans-during-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20e5d44b7bcbc72/6988677ae20a876d1aa8dac4/lebron.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Atlanta Hawks v Cleveland Cavaliers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch LeBron James Take a Selfie With Fans During a Game twitter:description: We can't wait to see how it turned out twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20e5d44b7bcbc72/6988677ae20a876d1aa8dac4/lebron.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch LeBron James Take a Selfie With Fans During a Game > Sponsored content. 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Joe Robbins—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 8, 2015 3:56 PM UTC Wednesday night’s matchup between the Atlanta Hawks and the Cleveland Cavaliers marked another historic moment for LeBron James, but for once it didn’t have anything to do with his basketball skills. James became the first NBA player to take a selfie _during_ a game, according to [USA Today](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/lebron-james-takes-selfie-with-young-fans-invites-one-of-them-to-sit-on-the-bench). The King posed for the picture with some young fans while waiting for a replay review at the scorers’ table. James also invited one of the kids to sit next to him and J.R. Smith on the sideline of the preseason game at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati. > [](https://twitter.com/outsidethenba/status/651925095464726528) Good guy LeBron strikes again. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4066430/lebron-james-selfie-with-fans-during-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4066430/lebron-james-selfie-with-fans-during-game/"},"headline":"Watch LeBron James Take a Selfie With Fans During a Game","datePublished":"2015-10-08T15:56:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:45.516Z","description":"We can't wait to see how it turned out","url":"https://time.com/4066430/lebron-james-selfie-with-fans-during-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","celebrities","selfies","Lebron James","selfie","Fans","NBA","Cleveland Cavaliers","sports fans"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20e5d44b7bcbc72/6988677ae20a876d1aa8dac4/lebron.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20e5d44b7bcbc72/6988677ae20a876d1aa8dac4/lebron.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Atlanta Hawks v Cleveland Cavaliers","caption":"Atlanta Hawks v Cleveland Cavaliers","creditText":"Joe Robbins—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4066430/lebron-james-selfie-with-fans-during-game/","name":"Watch LeBron James Take a Selfie With Fans During a Game"}}]}] ```