He and I are the same year. Being from MD, I heard about him our junior year in 02. I didn't know much other than him supposedly being able to play in the NBA "now". When that's said about you, I had to see it, so I watched/taped SVSM's televised game senior year and...yeah.
After that though he was everywhere in newspapers. There was the hummer, the throwback jersey nonsense that cost them a game for an undefeated season, the McDonald's All American where Chris Paul and Charlie Villanueva were balling, and the Jordan classic where he wore the all black low top 18s. That 03 year was a great time for pure hoops.