Revisiting the summer of 2001 at the legendary ABCD Camp in New Jersey — the proving ground where icons like Kobe Bryant once made their mark. Into that pressure-filled spotlight stepped a 16-year-old from Akron named LeBron James. Even as the comparisons rolled in, he shrugged them off, focused on carving out a path that was entirely his own. The packed gyms, the whispers in the crowd, the raw electricity around every possession… this was where the nation first realized LeBron wasn’t the ‘next’