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Watch LeBron lead crowd in 'O-H' chant at Welcome Home rally

He may not have attended Ohio State, but that doesn't make him any less a Buckeye.

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LeBron James took part in a multipurpose "Welcome Home" rally at the University of Akron's InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field Friday evening in which not only was he welcomed back to Northeast Ohio, but he was able to honor his LeBron James Family Foundation "I Promise" program participants as he does each year.

With over 30,000 in attendance (by comparison, the Browns held a scrimmage there in the last week and had just over 20,000 present to take in Johnny Manziel and company), James, his wife, and kids were introduced to the crowd as Skylar Grey played the arpeggios to her apt smash hit "Coming Home" in a cathartic great scene for Ohioans everywhere.

In the highlight of the evening however, LeBron wanted to find out which section of the crowd was the loudest. After dividing the different parts of the stadium, he proceeded to let out his inner Ohio State Buckeye:

So when's the next gubernatorial primary again?