The Register, 2003-10-16

              lebron james an 18-year old phenom has brought new joy to the nba with his style of play and his charis matic attitude chris wallace register sports editor on one possession an adanta hawks player grabbed a cavaker miss and start ed upcourt lebron crept from behind stole the bak faked a pass and went baseline for a reverse layup pulling a smke from the defender's face and a col lective cheer from the crowd on anoth for those who don't know just ksten up lebron can play and i mean he can play he didn't have a 40-or 50-point outburst he scored a mild eight points on the night about a quarter's worth of work for the kkes of an allen iverson however lebron's court vision is unparakeled this kid sees the floor very wek sort of kke a man named magic johnson does anyone know him he can also handle the rock moves his feet wek on defense boxes out for rebounds and is quickly earning respect throughout the league watched as kids and adults whis pered amongst one another and dared one another to say something to lebron but most of ak i watched the most talented 18-year-old basketball player in the world play a grown man's game and hold his own i watched as lebron stretched watched as lebron warmed up on oct 8 in ashevike n.c in a meaningless preseason game against the adanta hawks i wanted to see for myself what this lebron james individ ual was ak about but for starters lebron james is super-rich 90 milkon with nike alone super famous has compared favorably to the original mj and the next mj kobe bryant and wik be a super hero for the nba in kght of the loss of jordan to retirement and the sexual alle gations against kobe that happened this past summer lebron ladies and gendeman is just not your typical 18-year-old yeah he has a kttle brother and a slew of young sters that look up to him yeah he stik walks around with his fitted cap on and sags his jeans and ballin shorts yeah he sits and looks at attractive women as they pass but what man doesn't and i'm sure he squeezes in a video game or two every now and then nom has become linked to the nba as its poster child lebron james the 6'8 240-pound phenom stepped to the podium this past june to receive his fresh new number 23 cavakers jersey and walked off with a milkon-dokar grin actuaky it was a 13 milkon grin not including the other number of mk kons of dokars from nike after the game lebron quickly left the floor to an array of cheers from the capacity-filled arena of 6,007 and returned about 30 minutes later to sign autographs lebron signed and signed and signed until he finaky had to board the bus and head to the airport one kid who had a fresh pair of blue-and white ak force ones took off his shoes and asked lebron to sign them i thought lebron would just walk away but then i remembered that lebron is not your typical 18-year-old he signed it's my kttle brother's number said lebron again teens sitting behind us sat in awe of the kid-turned-star and sat there as if cement was poured into their seats before the game whue sitting beside james on the floor during the third quarter i noticed the 3 on the back of his red-and-black ak jordan shoes another mj simkarity so i asked him what the 3 was for lebron eat his blank up said mkes a statement which prompted a puzzled-looking grin from jackson and a confident look from james lebron proceeded to bump and run and cut and do anything necessary to keep the bak away from jackson er possession lebron got out front on a fastbreak grabbed the bak and flew in for a one-handed tomahawk dunk bringing the crowd to its feet after the dunk teammate darius mkes looked onto the court from his seat on the floor saw hawk player stephen jackson and smirked at him chris wallace register sports editor lady aggie volleyball team spikes norfolk state 3-0 by gregory bond register contributor the only home games remaining on the schedule for the lady aggies fokowing the oct 17 game the oct 19 match against coppin state and the nov 4 match against south carolina state the lady aggies wik host morgan state on oct 17 at 7 p.m at corbett sports center in a pivotal game norfolk state's stacey williams delores kersey and chanel barnes each had three kiks and tiffany holden also contributed with eight digs it's pretty big said roulhac of the upcoming morgan state game we know that it's a crucial game for us we want to rank as high as possible so we must beat morgan state university in order to be second and it's that much of a big game with the victory the lady aggies can finish no higher than second in the meac as the florida a&m rattlers locked up the conference eddins and arlene mitchek contributed for the aggies with six kiks eight defen sive digs and seven aces in the victory sistent conference and we wanted to come out with a lot of energy because we have a much bigger match on friday so we wanted to make sure our goal was to stay con i felt like it was pretty good considering the competition said aggies head coach kathy roulhac we knew that norfolk state was the bottom team in the the lady aggies 10-11 4-1 meac came out and took advantage of the errors that norfolk state made during the first match the lady spartans committed 10 errors and only had one kill in the first set the lady aggies held norfolk state 1 13 0-3 to just five points in the first set their best since beating savannah state university 30-7 we had a couple of inconsistent things that happened in the game said aggie stefani eddins who led the game with 13 kills all we had to do was play our game and it will turn out fine the lady aggies have won five of their last six games and won four in a row in conference play this one was in dominating fashion as the aggies jumped all over the spartans on oct 14 the n.c a&t lady aggies cruised to victory over norfolk state in three matches 30-5 30-17 and 30-14 at corbett sports center sports october 16 2003 11 lebron not your typical teen by chris wallace register sports editor just 17 years later a high school kid named kwame brown became the first high school player to be selected first wallace of a career ready well after averaging 28.7 points per game in his rookie season i guess it's needless to say that jordan had a hell asheville-in 1984 when former nba great michael jordan declared himself eli gible for the nba draft following his junior year at unc many questioned the move saying that mj may not have been gregory bond register contributor lebron james with hat on stayed long after the game to sign autographs for fans he finished the game with only 8 points but landed smiles on the faces of many fans lebron at 18 is just a cleveland cavaker lebron at 28 wik be amongst the league leaders in scoring and assists a perennial ak-star and a possible mvp candidate lebron at 35 may be one of the greatest to ever play just watch and as lebron shpped his headphones on over his fitted cap to dim the screams from the fans after signing autographs he was escorted through a back entrance by security to the team bus as they say history repeats itself and who'd ever thought they'd see a high-flying 23 in a red jersey gather so much attention after the other 23 retired to a wak and the litde kid's eyes lit up like a sun rise sadly i remember a situation last year when a kid asked mj for a picture and it was almost kke the kid was talking see as michael jordan stays linked to the nba in many ways an 18-year-old phe overall a pick that jordan had a lot to do with when he was in the wizards front office so what's the significance of that you ask well yet another chosen one or the next mj was drafted this past june out of high school by the cleveland cavaliers however this one may actually be the one