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• In James' first season of organized basketball, he was the best player on an undefeated team, but everyone on the roster got an MVP trophy from coach Frank Walker Sr.
• "Right then and there, I knew that this is what I wanted to do," James said Friday.
• On Saturday, the Miami Heat forward was set to get another MVP award -- one that puts him on a list alongside seven of the game's absolute greats.
• A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that James will be announced as the winner of the NBA's top individual honor, and that he'll be formally presented the trophy by Commissioner David Stern on Sunday afternoon before Miami faces Indiana in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Saturday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2012. There are 233 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 12, 1937, Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, was crowned as queen consort.
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• On this date:
• In 1012, Pope Sergius IV died, ending a nearly three-year papacy; he was succeeded by Pope Benedict VIII.
• In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, S.C., surrendered to British forces.
• In 1812, English poet Edward Lear, known for nonsensical verse like "The Owl and the Pussycat," was born.
• In 1902, anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike. (The strike effectively ended in October 1902 with the appointment of an Anthracite Coal Strike Commission by President Theodore Roosevelt.)
• In 1922, a 20-ton meteor crashed near Blackstone, Va.
• In 1930, Chicago's Adler Planetarium first opened to the public.
• In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.
• In 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
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