2001 ABCD Camp Rare Feat Lebron James, Sebastian Telfair, Kobe Bryant

A lot more fun to just click on a picture rather than have to leave the site. You go to embed and choose the old embed code, copy it, switch to plain text editor, and paste it. Would be much appreciated for the future, seeing that you like posting youtube videos and all.

A lot more fun to just click on a picture rather than have to leave the site. You go to embed and choose the old embed code, copy it, switch to plain text editor, and paste it. Would be much appreciated for the future, seeing that you like posting youtube videos and all.

 Nice…GREAT post adamsc14!!!…funny seeing Lenny Cook again….just one of the many names at the prestigous ABCD camp that didnt make it…I thought it was funny at the end when Pitino said there was only one SURE FIRE LOCK for the NBA at the camp…didnt give his name but said he was a JR….obviosuly talkin bout Lebron.

Seeing the ABCD camp got my juices flowing about the old days with basketball camps…now a days there so many camps, and aau, and other things….back then….ABCD camp was the ONE stop shop for college coaches….The cream of the crop for camps….any HS baller who was anyone was there…I was so young then….but I remember trying to see who was going every year….basically every realtively young NBA star in the 90’s was at that camp.

Your post lead me to YouTube looking for this video of the ABCD camp from the move Hoop Dreams.  This was not an easy task mind you since my computer is currently messed up and it takes 20 minutes to load a 30 second YouTube clip…NIGHTMARE….anyways around 20:40 into the video is when the enter the ABCD camp…at exactly 22:07 pause it and look at YINKA DARE…OMG…dude looks CRAZY…other notabe faces you’ll see are Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, Chris Webber, Juan Howard, Jalen Rose (I basically shoulda said the FAB 5) also RODNEY ROGERS(look him up youngins) and some white dudes that I cant remember their names..lol..and looking at this again, I think I just stumbled onto something I never seen b4.  I am not positive, but at around 23:05 I think thats KEVIN OLLIE guarding Gates (main character of movie)…if I am right…WOW…I got to pat myself on the back for that eye…lol….lets not forget the PJ Carllisimo sighting at the 26:22 mark (didn’t Latrel Sprewell choke that dude out…LOL)..anyways…good post..thanx 4 the memories!!!

 Nice…GREAT post adamsc14!!!…funny seeing Lenny Cook again….just one of the many names at the prestigous ABCD camp that didnt make it…I thought it was funny at the end when Pitino said there was only one SURE FIRE LOCK for the NBA at the camp…didnt give his name but said he was a JR….obviosuly talkin bout Lebron.

Seeing the ABCD camp got my juices flowing about the old days with basketball camps…now a days there so many camps, and aau, and other things….back then….ABCD camp was the ONE stop shop for college coaches….The cream of the crop for camps….any HS baller who was anyone was there…I was so young then….but I remember trying to see who was going every year….basically every realtively young NBA star in the 90’s was at that camp.

Your post lead me to YouTube looking for this video of the ABCD camp from the move Hoop Dreams.  This was not an easy task mind you since my computer is currently messed up and it takes 20 minutes to load a 30 second YouTube clip…NIGHTMARE….anyways around 20:40 into the video is when the enter the ABCD camp…at exactly 22:07 pause it and look at YINKA DARE…OMG…dude looks CRAZY…other notabe faces you’ll see are Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, Chris Webber, Juan Howard, Jalen Rose (I basically shoulda said the FAB 5) also RODNEY ROGERS(look him up youngins) and some white dudes that I cant remember their names..lol..and looking at this again, I think I just stumbled onto something I never seen b4.  I am not positive, but at around 23:05 I think thats KEVIN OLLIE guarding Gates (main character of movie)…if I am right…WOW…I got to pat myself on the back for that eye…lol….lets not forget the PJ Carllisimo sighting at the 26:22 mark (didn’t Latrel Sprewell choke that dude out…LOL)..anyways…good post..thanx 4 the memories!!!

http://www.slamonline.com/online/other-ballers/womens/2011/01/candice-wiggins-and-the-rising-stars/

Interesting article I found when I looked up Dwain Williams, who I actually remember when SLAM did an issue of the best 7th, 8th and 9th grader in the nation. Dwain was the top 7th grader, Bassy (Sebastian Telfair) was the top 8th grader and Major Wingate was the top 9th grader. Needless to say, none of them ended HS with those titles, and only one of them has made the NBA. Major just so happened to look like a total beast, and actually had a decent career at Tennessee, but he was an early developer at 6’9 with a very muscular frame at a young age. I think attitude definitely played a part in Major not reaching his early potential, but really, there were just better players who had yet to be discovered. One of whom was a 6’6 freshman from Akron, OH, who I am pretty sure is the guy Rick Pitino is talking about at the end of the video as the non-senior "can’t miss" guy. Just assuming……

Well, if you read that article, it is about Candice Wiggins, of Stanford Cardinal and Minnesota Lynx fame, playing on a stacked AAU boys team back in the day. You will see a picture of Jared Dudley that will show you that the young man obviously has put in A LOT of work on his body. The team also featured her older brother, a 6’5 13 year old named Quentin Byears (who I remember hearing about) and Dwain Williams. I remember following the kids SLAM had named as the best in their classes, it was easy to remember Major, and Bassy was Stephon Marbury’s cousin and Jamel Thomas’ younger bro, plus he made a name for himself at camps very early on.

Dwain Williams, however, kind of fell off of the grid. Lets just say, his NBA chances seem fairly slim, to say the least. Not only was he not part of the last class to enter the draft out of HS (2005), but he actually flew under the draft radar completely. He played two years at Providence (Providence Friars, any memories you can recount of Dwain?), where he averaged 7.5 ppg in 20.9 mpg as a freshman and 11 ppg in 31.2 mpg as a sophomore. Not bad, but he shot really poorly from the field his sophomore season. After a junior year in 2009-10 where he averaged 14 ppg on 34.5% shooting from the field for the University of Hawaii, he decided to go pro. I do not know where he is playing now, but needless to say, his NBA dreams are probably not going to become a reality. Unfortunate that his incredibly high expectations were not met, and the dangers of placing a moniker on someone at such a young age.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/11631/dwain-williams-is-going-pro

http://www.slamonline.com/online/other-ballers/womens/2011/01/candice-wiggins-and-the-rising-stars/

Interesting article I found when I looked up Dwain Williams, who I actually remember when SLAM did an issue of the best 7th, 8th and 9th grader in the nation. Dwain was the top 7th grader, Bassy (Sebastian Telfair) was the top 8th grader and Major Wingate was the top 9th grader. Needless to say, none of them ended HS with those titles, and only one of them has made the NBA. Major just so happened to look like a total beast, and actually had a decent career at Tennessee, but he was an early developer at 6’9 with a very muscular frame at a young age. I think attitude definitely played a part in Major not reaching his early potential, but really, there were just better players who had yet to be discovered. One of whom was a 6’6 freshman from Akron, OH, who I am pretty sure is the guy Rick Pitino is talking about at the end of the video as the non-senior "can’t miss" guy. Just assuming……

Well, if you read that article, it is about Candice Wiggins, of Stanford Cardinal and Minnesota Lynx fame, playing on a stacked AAU boys team back in the day. You will see a picture of Jared Dudley that will show you that the young man obviously has put in A LOT of work on his body. The team also featured her older brother, a 6’5 13 year old named Quentin Byears (who I remember hearing about) and Dwain Williams. I remember following the kids SLAM had named as the best in their classes, it was easy to remember Major, and Bassy was Stephon Marbury’s cousin and Jamel Thomas’ younger bro, plus he made a name for himself at camps very early on.

Dwain Williams, however, kind of fell off of the grid. Lets just say, his NBA chances seem fairly slim, to say the least. Not only was he not part of the last class to enter the draft out of HS (2005), but he actually flew under the draft radar completely. He played two years at Providence (Providence Friars, any memories you can recount of Dwain?), where he averaged 7.5 ppg in 20.9 mpg as a freshman and 11 ppg in 31.2 mpg as a sophomore. Not bad, but he shot really poorly from the field his sophomore season. After a junior year in 2009-10 where he averaged 14 ppg on 34.5% shooting from the field for the University of Hawaii, he decided to go pro. I do not know where he is playing now, but needless to say, his NBA dreams are probably not going to become a reality. Unfortunate that his incredibly high expectations were not met, and the dangers of placing a moniker on someone at such a young age.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/11631/dwain-williams-is-going-pro

 mikey…nice….good article…did u ever read the book THE LAST SHOT….http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-shot-darcy-frey/1003236057 …I remember this was literally like one of the first books I ever completely read…LOL…anyways…i 4 got how old I was but I was very young 2 say the lease…anyways…its about inner city ball in coney island and how so many top prosepects would come out of there…but….never ultimately succeed in making it to the NBA….it was written the summer of like 90 or 91 and it featured a then 8th grader Stephon Marbury…the way the author wrote about him…OMG…made me want to follow Marbury career from that point forward…it’s just interesting to me to see how players develop…not only as ballers…but as people…I guess its my natural curiosity.

On a side note MIKEVTHEDON…I saw u messaged me at my ESPN account….I didnt give u back a very nice message…lol…sorry…..but….I would like it if we could communicate through that a little more…it’s kinda more private…ya know.  I def like talkin basketball…as u can see….and u def are good at communicating good basketball knowlege through your writing…albeit it might be too long at times…and u might come across as a "know it all" and kinda seem like a dik at times…lol…sorry…I am sure I have my moments also…actually…I know I have my moments…SORRY 2 anyone reading this….so…ya know…every now and then drop me a message there and I’ll hit u back and we can communicate through that as well…or not….no big deal…either way I’ll live…just a thought

 mikey…nice….good article…did u ever read the book THE LAST SHOT….http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-shot-darcy-frey/1003236057 …I remember this was literally like one of the first books I ever completely read…LOL…anyways…i 4 got how old I was but I was very young 2 say the lease…anyways…its about inner city ball in coney island and how so many top prosepects would come out of there…but….never ultimately succeed in making it to the NBA….it was written the summer of like 90 or 91 and it featured a then 8th grader Stephon Marbury…the way the author wrote about him…OMG…made me want to follow Marbury career from that point forward…it’s just interesting to me to see how players develop…not only as ballers…but as people…I guess its my natural curiosity.

On a side note MIKEVTHEDON…I saw u messaged me at my ESPN account….I didnt give u back a very nice message…lol…sorry…..but….I would like it if we could communicate through that a little more…it’s kinda more private…ya know.  I def like talkin basketball…as u can see….and u def are good at communicating good basketball knowlege through your writing…albeit it might be too long at times…and u might come across as a "know it all" and kinda seem like a dik at times…lol…sorry…I am sure I have my moments also…actually…I know I have my moments…SORRY 2 anyone reading this….so…ya know…every now and then drop me a message there and I’ll hit u back and we can communicate through that as well…or not….no big deal…either way I’ll live…just a thought