NEW YORK: America’s finest talent gave the warmest of welcomes to Britain’s Prince William and wife Kate late Monday, dazzling them at their first NBA game featuring basketball legend LeBron James.

Rapper Jay-Z and superstar wife Beyonce chatted to the royals during an interval, and James treated them to a breathtaking display of brilliance as he led the Cleveland Cavaliers to their seventh win in a row at the Barclays Center.

The four-time NBA Most Valuable Player and double Olympian met the royal couple at the end of the match, giving them a Cavaliers shirt marked Cambridge and another for their one-year-old son Prince George.

Nicknamed “King James” and a player who overcome a tough upbringing to become one of America’s greatest sporting legends, said before the match it would be a huge honor to play before royalty.

“For them to take time out of their schedule to come here, first time watching a basketball game, it was an honor that I’d be that guy they decided they wanted to watch,” James said after the game.

His team the Cavaliers dispatched the Brooklyn Nets 110-88 in a lackluster performance by the home team avidly supported by Jay-Z.

Five months pregnant with her second child, the Duchess of Cambridge covered her baby bump in a grey coat by billionaire New York designer Tory Burch and wore her auburn hair gently waved.

The couple sat courtside for the final two quarters of the match, were repeatedly offered refreshments by waiters and flashed up on the stadium camera as the MC called on the crowd to give them a warm Brooklyn welcome.