ABCD Camp

The camp gathered the highest ranked high school players of the United States, and was considered one of the top events of high school basketball.

[5] The ABCD Camp was founded in 1984 by Sonny Vaccaro and was sponsored by Nike.

[6] The camp took place every year in the month of July usually lasting 4–5 days, and was held in different locations in the initial years, among which the Bren Events Center at UC Irvine in 1992[7] and at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1993[8] before moving to the Rothman Center, at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, New Jersey, where the camp was held from 1994 until its final edition in 2006.

[11] Several college coaches attended ABCD Camp during their recruitment process of high school players: among them Bob Bender, Jim Boeheim, P. J. Carlesimo, Joe Harrington and Mike Krzyzewski.

[9][12][13][14] NBA scouts also participated and in some cases, camp participants were drafted out of high school, for instance Kevin Garnett,[14] Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O'Neal, Tracy McGrady, Kwame Brown, Eddy Curry, Sebastian Telfair and Gerald Green.

LeBron James was Camp MVP in 2001 as an underclassman and was one of the camp participants to be drafted out of high school .
Kobe Bryant was Camp MVP in 1995.