It鈥檚 been more than 20 years since the Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary鈥檚 boys high school basketball team made headlines with future NBA superstar LeBron James.
Now, commentator Terry Pluto says former coach Keith Dambrot and former player Dru Joyce III are reuniting as coaches.
Passed over for one job, landing another
Dru Joyce III has spent the past three years as an assistant coach at Cleveland State University under Dennis Gates. Joyce applied for the head coach job when Gates departed earlier this year but didn't get it.
Then, another opportunity came along. Keith Dambrot, the coach of the men's basketball team at Duquesne, offered Joyce to join him as his this month.
A 25-year relationship
Pluto says their relationship goes back 25 years, when Dambrot was the head coach at Akron St. Vincent-St Mary and Joyce was called "Little Dru," since his dad was Dru Joyce II.
Dambrot was holding clinics for young players at the Akron Jewish Community Center.
"Dru Joyce II brought his son, Dru Joyce III. And they brought a kid named Willie McGee and a kid named Sian Cotton .... And this tall, gangly kid named LeBron James," Pluto said.
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