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Bristol Post
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Andrew Arthur

The Bristol basketball star who trained with LeBron James and won gold alongside Jayson Tatum

Bristol Flyers forward VJ King doesn’t need long to deliberate on who the best player he has ever played with or against.

“I think that obviously would be LeBron. I shouldn’t have to go into too much detail as to why! He is one of the greatest to ever do it, so it’s easily him.”

In 2011, Vincent King Jr was starting his sophomore year at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. He had already led the school’s basketball team, nicknamed the Fighting Irish, to the state finals. In the process, he became the first freshman to start on the team since another ‘King’ - the all-time leading points scorer in NBA history, LeBron James.

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