It may be corny, but using social media following is a pretty good way to gauge someone's stardom. So let's look at the numbers.
At 31.1million followers, LeBron James has more twitter followers than Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and Dwight Howard
combined, with 3 million to spare. His follower count triples Kobe Bryant's.
He has about the same amount of followers as Drake.
He has 10 million more followers than Neymar Jr, an international soccer MEGA STAR.
In fact, the only athlete on Twitter with more followers than LeBron James is Cristiano Ronaldo, who is easily one of the most famous men in the world. I'm sure Messi would probably have him beat too but he doesn't use Twitter.
The fact that some of you seriously tried to suggest that LeBron James isn't that famous. LeBron James is literally 100x more famous than OJ Simpson ever was, dude just got a billion dollar contract from Nike for fukk's sake. He's had 2 silver screen movies made about him/featuring him in More than Game and Trainwreck and just got casted to be the lead in the sequel to Space Jam, fukking Space Jam. But he isn't famous. The Coli y'all.