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Name me five guys that you wouldn't trade right now for the right to have that kid.

And he was a junior in high school at the time.

And again, the crazy thing isn't that they were right.

Everyone was right.

Actually, we were wrong.

We undersold how good the guy was.

Had this cover come out before or after the ABCD camp showdown with Lenny Cook?

After.

Because to me, that was the first time I remember hearing about it.

That's the moment where he became a national phenomenon.

That's what sort of was the motivation for the article.

Got it.

Right.

So for those that don't know, the best high school players in the country every summer would gather in Teaneck, New Jersey.

And no one knew who LeBron James was.

Everyone knew Lenny Cook.

He was the best player in the country.

And the camp always ends with an all-star game.

And

LeBron basically destroyed Lenny Cook and Lenny Cook's career and life took a downward spiral and LeBron became this huge platform and I guess culminating with this magazine cover.