LeBron James' first SportsCenter NBA highlight | ESPN Archive

On October 29, 2003, LeBron James' first SportsCenter highlight reel aired as a Cleveland Cavalier rookie as they faced the Sacramento Kings.

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[BM-ttrd]

I’ll never understand how you can transition from playing high school players to dominating the NBA. Truly one of the best to ever do it

[guillermo]

Like if basketball won't be the same without this guy

[MicDubTV]

And people will still find a way to hate. He was a great NBA player at EIGHTEEN, folks. Appreciate greatness.

[greengrass]

I can’t think of another player who’s ever completely lived up to the hype and surpassed it.

[theoneandonly]

From then to now, Thank you LeBron for all the Greatness.

[Banksofameria]

When you looked forward to watching highlights on

[Jaspinish]

Been averaging 25/9/6 ever since he came into the league, dang.

[gabe]

Damn this kid is good ! He'll probably be a 4time mvp with 3 rings

[sjguess]

Can we all just take it in that this nigga almost had a triple double his first nba game with 25pts 9ast and 6reb

[dominicalbright]

Damn I remember this game! Stopped everything to watch this game, I was 17 playing ball myself, I wanted to see how he would do 15 years later times flys man

[mogkezusgaming]

How can people hate and not be impressed by LeBron he's been great since his first NBA game

[pchqsteven]

20 years later still playing at a high level. Became the greatest basketball player ever.

[outoftime]

People forget the young Lebron when he was straight ballin on people . To bad he didn't have that support system around him then. Lebron been the Best in the NBA since 2010 . Even when his athleticism slowin down he still find ways to dominate .

[QuickMathProject]

That part when he said “when you look 20 years from now, I wanna be looked at as one of the greatest players to ever play the game” gave me absolutely chills. Look at him now year 17 arguably the GREATEST Player of all time most definitely the greatest player of our generation.

[SethACampbellMusic]

I LOVE archive/flashbacks! Let's see some more of these!

[hassanmonroe]

Basically they are paying homage of why espn ratings are still high and some people still have a job....

[calebstewart]

Lebron has surely lived up to and exceeded the expectations of critics

[seowth]

LeProphet James "When I see this tape 20 years from now..."😂

[ucanhitme]

Remember watching this game like it was yesterday, they should showed the first play, that assist out the gate set the tone.

[dontefair]

I was 8 when he had his debut, I’m 28 now and just watched the man average 29 leading his team to the WCF at age 38 with a son who just committed to USC. Smh enjoy it people we won’t see another guy that’s grew up old school but adapted his body to last 21 years of high level basketball