i hate wen pple try to criticize wen they see tht there trying to make it...smh wat morons!!!

ABCD(anybody but Carolina or Duke). Play for Gary Williams. UNC & Duke get their players from McDonalds. The Terps come from Burger King. But look what Gary gets done considering what he has to work with every year. By March he has a bunch of ragtags playing like contenders.

the opening statement by this boy was ill advised and reeks of ignorance and arrogance. I'm from the Philadelphia are and it makes me wonder if the inquirer has nothing better to cover than this "ground breaking story in video" of a 6 ft 8 eighth grader doing an impressive dunk for his age but other than that he should be scoring in bunches against kids smaller than him. If he is the next "lebron or lebron who" as he refereed to himself as, and is a phenom, then why isn't he playing against older kids then?? With an attitude like that, he is destined to be a pre-Madonna like Lebron James.

KOBE LEBRON WHO?? << lil kid please!!! you have to earn your respect first! youre not even in high school yet, yes seems like a good player, but that doesnt mean anything once you become a junior and actually put numbers up than you can talk, but you do not disrespect the NBA's 2 best players

Kid didnt show me nothing..........

you need to have smarts to make it in the nba also. players like wade,lebron,kobe,pierce aren't just good players they also understand how the game works and how to exploit weaknesses you possess.

Maybe the next Kobe Bryant, He's from Philly, PA too.

My kid is in the seventh grade...the other day he made a basket in the back yard....does that qualify him as a phenom.....?

I want to say that Jennifer K if you are looking for an article about the next nobel prize winner you are on the wrong site. The fact is that yes he may be tall but that doesn't mean he is going to be the next Lebron or Kobe or MJ. Anybody that tall can look good playing against kids under 6 feet in middle school. It will be interesting to see as he gets into high school and the talent gets a little bigger and so does the size of the other kids how he preforms. And being from Pennsylvanian and seeing people like Kobe and Tyreke Evans play in high school they really did show that they were that much more talented and had the potential to make it in the NBA. So only time will tell to whether or not this kid can really play. Lastly why does everyone have to compare people so someone who has already made it can't anybody just be themselves anymore he is Horace Spencer and not the next Lebron James (who last time i checked isn't the king of anything because he hasn't won a championship and he still won't witht the Heat) or Kobe Bryant (who will always be better than Lebum James).

Well, he hasn't won an NBA championship... so yeah, he's just like LeBlingless

well he is big and he can jump. this makes him look really good with a bunch of short guys. only time will tell but manute bol was very tall and he kinda sucked so we will see.

going to be a good big man. i dont know about the next labron

99 times out of 100, players like this will amount to nothing. How many next Michael Jordan's have there been? What made players like Jordan and Kobe so great is their hard work ethic and discipline on top of freakish talent. Showcasing a couple fancy dunks and pretty moves is entertaining, but really shows nothing. Yet the media will continue to foolishly dub people like this because people like you and I will click on the article or blog and read it.

Is this mean that this kid will play for an NBA for a strong seven seasons and then have an hour interview revealing his move to a new team when his contract ends? AMAZING. The future Lebron

The Only thing he has in commom with Lebron is that he's 6'8 and black. The kid looks like he's super clumbsy.

this kid will not be the next anything.....big deal that he is tall now and dunking and dominating kids at that age. He looks like he just started to play basketball with that terrible coordination. i bet he has zero skill with the ball seeing that he just has to lay the ball up constantly against these 5 foot little kids.

He's tall but that's it. C'mon he was playing with kids and is a kid. Lebron had way more handles than he does. But Lebron is very conceided so I pray he doesn't turn out to be anything like him. This kid might be the next anthony randolph but that's probably it. But I'd love to be Randolph so that's a compliment in my eyes. He's tall, athletic, and has decent coordination. Let's please stop comparing this kid to an NBA MVP.

a comparison to Yao Ming or Munute Bol (sp?) is more appropriate.
it's a vid of a manchild showing up kids 3 feet shorter than this. super.
we'll all forget this when he doesn't pan out.

big deal. im a 5'8" 40 year old beer gutted, beer swilling type of guy as long as that basket is like 8 feet and not 10 feet i could do the same dipsy doodle dunks they do.(i guess size matters).

BTW, I wish this seemingly wonderful manchild(And his loved ones) nothing but the best in life. When I say Mentor, I mean someone like a Father or a Father Figure in his life - Preferably someone like Kareem, Michael Jordan, Jim Brown, Bill Russell, etc.

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and everyone else in the past 20 yrs had grown up in a time where there wasn't as much media attention every second. It has become so that nobody has the slightest bit of personal, individual privacy who has any kind of notoriety anymore. It seems to get worse and worse every day. These people are under a microscope every second that they step outside their door.

And it isn't even just celebrities anymore. I am a very private person. I am not rich or famous, but i have friends that can tell me what my wife and I had for dinner last night because she posts her entire day for the whole world to read on facebook or myspace. This drives me absolutely crazy.

So you can imagine how tough it is when everyone wants to know everything you do from the time you get up to the time you go to bed (And perhaps even what you dream at night.) Can you blame anyone who shuns the media or the limelight?

Hey Charles, you sound particularly educated yourself now @#$%

He is Horace Spencer! Please don't use journalistic @#$%% comparing one player to another, especially when you know that LaBron James is not the 2nd coming. Spencer, whether he excels or not, is not a clone of any player. As a matter of fact, James is not the greatest of anything!

Haven't any of you ever seen "Hoop Dreams"? Two kids with limitless potential who are great at basketball, but neither made it. It's a difficult world out there before you start giving the kids the pressure to be the next Lebron. For every Lebron or Kobe, there are tens of thousands of others.