When Did You First Hear About Lebron James?

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Remember espn advertising the game St Vincent oak hill and talking bout this 17yr old who could be in the league already and be possibly the best ever. I was like:comeon: at the time.
Then I watched the entirety of that game and watched him DESTROY the number #1 team in the country damn near alone. He was a one man wrecking crew i was like :ohmy: after.
I live in NC at the time so I was used to seeing crazy special high school hoopers. I ain’t NEVER seen no shyt like that.
 
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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.
 

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It was a few months before the game against Oak Hill in December 2022. So around October I think. TSN here in Canada was catching on to the hype, which was odd because you were likely to hear about some NHL prospect playing on some bumfukk team in the OHL, CHL or even the AHL before hearing about a high school NBA prospect.

Then they announced they were going to air that Oak Hill game nationally in Canada which was a shocker, it ended up being a big deal in general. Was rooting for him as we are born the same year. Really wanted one of them gold Vincent St Mary jerseys so found an authentic Schoolyard Legends Bron HS jersey with the shimmery gold, new. Wore it once and been vacuumed sealed since :pachaha:
 

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I’m curious what’s gonna be shown in the Bron doc about those times back then. I remember bits and pieces of the Lenny Cooke story and the ABCD camp where Bron hit the game winner and how it essentially “ruined” Lenny Cooke

Pretty crazy how a lot of people heard about him from a magazine vs currently where Twitter is probably where alot of people get these news stories
 

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from word of mouth and then downloading his junior year highlights off kazaa/morpheus/limewire while i was in elementary school
 
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