How good is LeBron James? I meant to post this earlier, I think I found it a few weeks back when Google was celebrating their anniversary with a retro version of their search engine. This article is from 2000:
Garfinkel has even higher standards, a historical perspective. He talked about the 100-plus NBA players who have attended his Five-Star camp, names such as Grant Hill, Stephon Marbury, Rasheed Wallace, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Dell Curry and Bobby Hurley.
“I’ll say this,” he said. “You heard all those NBA guys I mentioned? LeBron played as well or better than any one of them when they were sophomores at my camp. It was ridiculous; he totally dominated. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.”
Eight years later, it’s safe to say the answer is “pretty good”.