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In February 2002, the 17 year-old phenom appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was anointed “The Chosen One.” Little did LeBron and his teammates know, but this fueled Roger Bacon even more, as the veteran squad awaited a second shot at LeBron and St. Vincent-St. Mary. Peggy Brewer: Well, the fact that LeBron James was on the cover as a junior in high school was pretty amazing. But I had also heard about the Sports Illustrated curse, so I was kind of hoping that cover of the magazine ended up being a curse for him. Austin Carr: To me, that’s a lot to live up to. But after I watched him play two or three times, you could see that he was special. To see a guy his size, that young, that could do the things he could do. It was amazing to me.
1 year ago – via Josh Kramer @ ESPN

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All due respect to Kevin Durant and the other ballers from Prince George’s County, recently celebrated in the Showtime documentary “In the Water,” but the District’s history of great basketball dates back to … well, damn near its creation, back to when Edwin B. Henderson introduced the game to the city, to the Washington 12 Streeters at the Colored YMCA more than a century ago, and to Howard University soon after. Henderson, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee in 2013, learned the game at Harvard in 1904 from the inventor of the game, James Naismith.
3 years ago – via David Aldridge @ The Athletic

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Carr, now 72 and the longtime TV analyst for the Cleveland Cavaliers, was among the best to play in the city, for Mackin Catholic, and was among the many local players who went on to star at Notre Dame, where he put up ludicrous numbers in three NCAA Tournament appearances. The first overall pick in the 1971 NBA Draft, Carr played 10 years in the pros, helping lift the Cavs to the Eastern Conference finals in five seasons. Now it’s Carr who’s being lifted, as one of this year’s inductees into the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame – an honor long overdue.
3 years ago – via David Aldridge @ The Athletic

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“I was a sophomore (at Mackin) when he was a senior, and I went to every game,” said Butch McAdams, the longtime head coach at Maret, and a local radio and podcast host for nearly 30 years. “Austin was a four-year varsity player. He was just special from the very beginning. He was like a perimeter version of AD (fellow local great Adrian Dantley) – there was no shake and bake, no crossovers. He was just so efficient, and he could shoot the lights out. I think the reason you don’t hear it is that, unfortunately, he had a rash of injuries at the NBA, and couldn’t reach his full potential at the NBA level as he did in high school and college … if he were playing in the era of the 3-point arc, I think you could conservatively – conservatively – add another 15 points (per game) to his average.”
3 years ago – via David Aldridge @ The Athletic

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Maybe it’s because Mackin, on California Street in Northwest D.C. and a beacon for middle-class black families, closed in 1989, shuttered by the Archdiocese of Washington that year. Or, maybe it’s because Carr’s Notre Dame teams, though good – the Irish went 61-24 in Carr’s three varsity seasons there, freshmen being ineligible to play for the varsity in those years – never got past the regional semifinals in the NCAA Tournament. Or maybe it’s because Carr went to a bad Cleveland team in the pros and was indeed injured a lot by the time it became a good, but never dominant, team in the East. But Carr’s body of work sometimes gets lost when discussing the best ever to play from here. “When you’re that long ago, people forget,” Carr said.
3 years ago – via David Aldridge @ The Athletic

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