Lebron James skin in Fortnite.
Lebron James skin in Fortnite.
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Lebron James joins Fortnite as a playable character ahead of Space Jam: A New Legacy film

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

Video games love Lebron James. The latest evidence is that the basketball player and star of the upcoming film Space Jam: A New Legacy will now be a playable character in Fortnite.

James arrives in the Fortnite Item Shop at 5 p.m. Pacific time on July 14, while the film with James and Looney Tunes characters debuts in theaters on July 16.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.