Meet SCHEA COTTON: He Was LeBron before LeBron in High School
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2017
- Schea Cotton was considered LeBron James before LeBron James in high school and had a Nike Shoe Deal As a Sophomore! What Happened?
There was a high school basketball player from California who had hype levels just as high as LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
His name is Schea Cotton, A 6 foot 5, 210 pound high school basketball prodigy who was the number one freshmen, sophomore and junior in high school in the mid 1990’s at Mater Dei. But he never played a game in the NBA!
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That’s the ncaa’s fault, even if he had learning disabilities, he passed the SAT and they could let him play. NCAA’s evil action can be viewed as discrimination against people with disabilities today and should be sued for millions of dollars.
hulu yeye not really
@Tim Reid how? There wasnt a rule he had to wait a year then. He cant blame others for his and his families stupidity.
NCAA crooks
Yeah he should have went straight to the nba fuck ncaa
Yes Yes sue they ass,messed my life up..
All that smoke with Garnett bought me here
gmoneyboys1 me too
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I played against Shea in the 13-U national AAU tournament in 1992 in Kingsport Tennessee. He played for a team called PTI I believe. Manchild is a great nickname. Even back then at 13 years old you knew he was different. He was everything this video says he was. Had an NBA body already at that age. He was slam dunking and won the MVP of the tournament. Jason Terry and Chris Carraway (Duke) were also in that tournament. Played pickup vs Chris Carraway. He was also head and shoulders better than most but still not at Cotton’s level at that stage of their careers. Happy that he has found his way through. We’re not always going to find success in our first career or in what other people think we will. Though he’s been through dark times he’s found a purpose and a path. “The path of the righteous one is like the bright light that gets brighter and brighter until the day is firmly established.” - proverbs 4:18.
Overrated. 6-5 is short unless you're a PG or SG in the NBA. He was playing PF. he'd be undersized in the NBA by a mile. He also couldn't shoot. Fact is he went undrafted because he just wasnt that good.
@@chadjackson4786 Agrees but the crap he went through most likely derailed his chances to develop as a different type of player. Not saying this wasn't mostly his fault, just saying.
@@chadjackson4786 Charles Barkley is 6'4"
I remember this dude when we went to that nationals in Tennessee but I first heard of him in the Nationals before that in Yakamah Washington. He was more talked about than Kobe Bryant! Facts !!!
Yeah...I played against him and Cory Benjamin in the Slam n Jam at the pyramid at Long Beach St. back in 95....dude was unbelievable
His mistake was not going to the NBA right out of high school... You can't give NBA Scouts an opportunity to pick your game apart !!
He missed most of his junior year and his entire senior year in HS. No way was an NBA team going to draft him. He should have humbled himself and stayed at Alabama for at least two years and see what his prospects were then.
He's my little brother in Christ! He's just as amazing off the court as was on the court. This video brought tears to my eyes because I know what it is firsthand to see a child get screwed over by the system! One thing I know for sure is my brother is at peace with God and himself! God's got you Brother Schea, you're still great in His eyes! Love you man!
Don Sullivan I live in Michigan and I remember reading about Schea in my street& smiths and telling my friends this guy is gonna be special...you know what, I was right.
@@brianaazaa9965 he's and amazing brother. We attend church and bible study together. I love him and his mom! Just two wonderful people. I love seeing them walk in church!
Glad you did this one about Cotton. I played against him in highschool. He did a 360 dunk and I was like who's this kid. He was a beast in the 90's
Great call on doing this! I was in the East coast in high school hearing about this guy when there was no internet. I always wondered what happened to him but never bothered to look it up.
rash b I heard about them in Slam magazines. Shea, Ed O'Bannon, Ronnie Fields, Shammgod.. Jermaine Oneal, KG and Kobe but Iverson was the biggest name.
Damn that's messed up...all the stuff about grades. Today he gets in D1 easy.
I heard about this guy forever growing up and I didn't even grow up in the west coast. It felt like folklore. Cool to finally see clips and a story.
However, his brother James Cotton went to Long Beach State out of St. John Bosco. His brother got drafted by Seattle Supersonics out of Long Beach State. Wished he could have played with his brother at Long Beach State so he could have played in the league. His film Manchild is a documentary people should support
Shei Cotton was Partizan Belgrade player. He was dunk machine. Grobari(fans of Partizan) respekt you! All the best from Serbia!
I know the Cotton family personally, I grew up with Schea and James, went to school with Schea since kindergarten, he was always a different type of blessed when it came to basketball from day1. By the 5th grade he was dunkin with ease, and he had deadly range. Our Junior high all-star basketball team only had 6 players on the roster me, cheese, Hodges, Tiere, Schae and a lil whiteboy forgot his name, but we went undefeated the whole entire tournament with every game being a blowout, honestly I believe Schea was the best player on the planet, we were seventh graders and he was unmistakably the clear dominating factor on every basketball court including the pick-up games with talented grown men, he was better than Garnett, Pierce, and B.Davis, he owned them with very little effort on his behalf, he was so damn good on the court he rarely had to bring his "A-Game" bcuz his "not even really trying that hard" game was leaps and bounds ahead of any human he came across, no matter the city or state, no cap
The fact that he never needed his A game was possibly his downfall. That and he was more of a PF in an SG body. I think if he had made it to 6-7, 6-8 he could have gone straight to the NBA as a Larry Johnson type player.
When your 6'5'' and people don't think your big enough meanwhile I'm 5'7''
I get your point, but they were talking about him playing the 3 or 4 in the NBA. You only get one Charles Barkley, who is actually 6'4", per lifetime.
People man🤦🏽♂️😂
I'm being for rea silver shadow
I was 6'3 and could barley play inside in high school in the 80's . In collage and pro you just move to guard . Could he not play the point he would have made it .
Bro I am 6.4 and was the shortest in my team... When other cheers with their drinks I needed to jump...
I read about him when I was a junior in high school. It was in the Sports Illustrated. A year later we meet in the Boston Shootout and I had to guard him. It's true, much respect.
Best prep player I ever seen, being out here in Cali.. He was the real deal.. 💯
Man, let me tell you, coaching kids on the sport that you love is the best medicine when you feel life didn't go as expected.
Good shit keep it up. Was really feeling this.
Thank you for this story, on many levels.
Excellent, informative story... And one that doesn't end in tragedy... YAY!
Ahhh yes the great Schea Cotton!!! Yes this guy was amazing!!! I remember this guy's dunks my 7-8th grades . He went to Mater Dei then St. John Bosco. Dude was windmilling from the dots,sick!
God bless you Shea Cotton.
Watch out for those children under you, as others should have done for you when you were playing.
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Great video man! I love your stuff, keep doing your thing bro
appreciate it, man!
For next you should tell the story of Whiteside from high school until being a star in the nba
I coached against him, when i was at Riverside Church in 1996, he was a MONSTER...Early LeBron for sure !!!
Stop with the Lebron shit. He didn have anywhere near the feel for the game and the passing ability that Lebron had
Nah, Zion maybe...
Best High School player I’ve ever seen live
had to check him out after all the smoke podcast
It's great that he's at peace and giving back.
Schea Cotton was dope! I swore he would go pro! I remember him when I was a senior one and he was a freshman in high school.
Interesting!! I never knew!! Thank you for the video!!
Nice piece... I watched all that unfold as those years were going by nice hear he's helping youngsters..
Man this dude was an absolute legend back in the early to mid 90's. I had the pleasure of seeing some really good athletes in various sports during my HS days (91-94) here in Southern California. From football to baseball and of course basketball there was just some dudes that you heard of that you just had to watch. Even til this day when I think of certain sports the same names pop up just from having watch them play during high school. These are the ones that stick out for me (that I saw in person).
Football - For me it was no doubt Reuben Droughns from Anaheim HS. Dude was just a monster of a running back good lord. Watching him just run everyone over was such a treat. Kind of reminded me of Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl lol.
Baseball - Jaret Wright, the pitcher from Katella HS. I was 5'10 and 120 pounds and this godzilla was 6'2 220 throwing 95mph. It was unreal and I was quickly introduced to what a real fastball was. Mark Kotsay of Santa Fey/CSUN, this dude wasn't very big but would hit massive homers with that beautiful swing. There was just nobody better around that time.
Basketball - Schea Cotton. Without a doubt in my mind the most dominant athlete in his sport, period. I had heard about him from a buddy so we went to watch him while he was at Mater Dei (some tournament in Anaheim) and good lord I was in awe. Sky high dunks and just a god among insects running the courts. I heard all the stories about why he never made it, but this is the one cat that should have been in the NBA without a doubt.
7:09 Boards of Canada....those guys are two of my favorite musicians ever. nice work
I remember Shea Cotten, he was the biggest basketball player in the country in high school. I hate that the NCAA ruined his chances to play at UCLA. I am glad that they have almost no power now. They abused their power and hurt a lot of young men in the game.
He was a Beast! We played against each other in the Irvine Valley Tournament in California! We Both had 35 points Adrian (Spanky) Parks Allan Hancock College! I Happy for you my dude!!
Great story, I really enjoyed it and will pray for my brother and many like him.
Wow.. talk about victim of circumstance😯every time he needed just one thing to go right nothing did. That’s some real tough luck.
I saw him play as a 12 year old in an AAU tournament in Utah. Beast.
Good stuff bro. Randy Moss and K.G. interview mentioning Shea name is what sent me here to look him up
What a great story, this guy repensent everyone with a dream that didn't reach it but still fights for a better life.
He was Zion back then 😂
SauceGodFit swear to god that fool Zion is a spitting image
Fa real I got that same vibe
@@itsjaeay3013 Knock knees and all
Yeah he got that same lil run like he 285 pounds😂😂 Zion hs highlights unreal
@@SuperSAINTPAUL Zion is a lot bigger and stronger than Schea was
Schea was a beast! I remember him.
Yea I remember hearing about this guy when he was a kid. Goes to show, the hype don't always come to be
Mater Dei is a god mode school for sports.
Theo Schmidt where is mater dei?
have you ever heard of google?
cali
Dick Mclickthestick, santa ana cali.
@red sanford not historically. The greatest player ever from Cali (RIP Raymond Lewis) and quite a few others played ball there
They did him dirty
i know him from slam mag back in 94. but never know why he never play in the nba. so this is why. thanks for the video man.
I went to ABCD back in the mid to late 90's where Kobe, Odom, and Cotton were there. No internet only by word or Streets and Smith was the way you would hear about these guys. I was there I witness Schea kill every top player there in that week of time. I don't know about Lebron before Lebron but, he had EVERYTHING. What I mean by everything, he had a jumper, mid and 3 pt, hops, the size, body, aggressive, could handle the ball, moved his feet on D, and beyond athletic!!!!! Sucks to see what happened to him, always wondered how he would be on that NBA level. But in all honesty he was LEGIT!!!!
K Morris What’s your name?
Yeah son you right...street and Smith was how you knew about cats back in the day
If he had all that, he would've been in the league man. Stop
@@toppdogg2815 correct, he didn't have much of a jumper. Only shot 25 percent from the three point line in college.
Bout to have this same discussion for Wiggins in about 3 more years
Sad...he should be ballin like zach
Wiggins in the league playing on a $150 million deal. What the fuck you talking about?
My high school team was one win away from playing Schea's team in the quarter or semi-finals for the California. When my coach scouted Schea he said the following, "When he got tired of dunking on the team, he just went out and shot threes." The opening play this game was an alley-oop reverse dunk on his defenders head. Total beast of a player.
NICE, Thanks!!!
Ronnie Fields needs one of these. Also, Stanley Branch from NJ. Was a teammate of JR Smith at St. Benedict Prep.
This was a good little documentary man.
great story, you narrated very well.
What happened to Schea Cotton is he had the body of a grown man when he was only in the 9th grade and was more physically mature than the rest of the players in his class and then by the time that he was a senior some of the other kids in his class started to grow and develop physically and improve their game like Tracy McGrady and they passed him .
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That's not true nor is it accurate. Shea had already dominated Tracey McGrady and others in the ABCD CAMP. So that right there shows how advanced his skill development was and he would have only gotten better if the NCCA had not denied him his chance at division 1 level in college.
Thier decision based on his learning disability was very bias.
He would have only improved at the college level as well as in the NBA level.
There would have been no catching up to him.
Not true - INJURY , did u not watch the video ?
@@awakingmind5251 Schea didn't dominate Tracy McGrady at ABCD Camp. Nobody knew who Tracy was until the summer of 96 going into their senior year. That was the only time Tracy went to a national camp before that, so when did Schea dominate him? By the time the camp was over, Tracy was the #1 ranked player in the country so there goes your theory about him being dominated by Schea.
@@hollywoodblack5744 injury had nothing to do with it man. None of those injuries were career threatening
@toppdogg2815 yet he still averaged 19 his one year at Alabama... the baggage and bullshit became too much... the love of the game left. It's a cautionary tale of too much too soon. This happens alot more than those like LeBron who some how manage to pull through...
Fremont High Tigers vs Mater Dei at Oakland Arena in 96... I was there
That was in 95
@@toppdogg2815 off by a year my badd
Ernest Killum from Lynwood High School in California. Class of '90. All the popular players that never made it already have documentaries i.e. Ben Wilson, Hank Gathers, Len Bias, etc. Stick with the guys that were legends in there cities that had NBA talent that most people don't know about. Good job
Technically, Len Bias "made it." He dominated in college and was drafted.
Saw him play in the CIF championship against Nogales. I entered not knowing who he was & thought Nogales & its 2 stars Shemario Richard & William Porter would dominate. I left the gm remembering Schea cotton to this day!!!
classic story of overuse, i bet this happens more than everyone thinks
Garrett Warren this happened to me I was breezy before Chris brown-
I know you're right, Garrett.
I love my boy so much! He was the goat! He was my favorite player ever! Love u schea!!!
Awesome video
thanks man
I played schea in high school and college, I hate he didn't make it. The world missed out.
Great Story of not giving up through hard times
Damn watching this brought back memories. Shae was a bad dude, he was balling everybody up. I remember seeing him play at the pond for the cif title and he didn't disappoint.
I was at that game vs odum in 96. That was a great game odum, Khalid El Amin some others
Great story. I always heard about jim and wondered why he never played in the nba
I remember him..... He's much older than me but I'm a baller and my older cousin was hip to Cotton 👍
Now this is a story players need to hear about.
He was one of my favorites. Never got that outside game. But this is another reason why despise ncaa.
If he would of developed a perimeter shot and jumper he would of been in the NBA for sure. Probably an nba star ...
S. C. Rips, always has and always will. Got to do some youth enrichment programs with him. Dude is a man of God, Grand Cayman islands ,this man has been given back. Peace to the brother!
I know that we're supposed to take responsibility for the choices we make,but damn; when outside sources cont. to hold you back, even the best of us will break. Glad he was able to turn things around and find peace.
Do you have a video of Charles and Ed O'Banon? Thanks!
Up coming youtuber 💯💯💯
That beat at the end tho🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If this was 30 mins longer it couldve been a 30 for 30...
Danny Ocean 20 min longer jack ass
Roland Castillo most of them are an hour or longer smart ass
LMAOOOOO
@@dannyocean7090 So true...some of them 30 for 30 are mini documentaries.
Felt like a 30 for 30
I went to crenshaw high lol crazy to see them in this vid
He was at Long Beach junior college a year before I got there
Nice bro ,Do one on Ronnie fields
kevin garnett teamate .
He was a sg had more dunks then Kg had..Was the best player on the team. Wild story thxx.
George Patterson they got one on him
Fr N.Cali remember this young man
"LeBron before LeBron."? More like "Lenny Cooke before Lenny Cooke."
onlyone23km LOL
onlyone23km my sentiments exactly
Difference is he didn't have any of the attitude issues Lenny did. But they both had the same bad luck.
Lebron is a lot more ugly... way way more ugly. muhahahaha
onlyone23km 😅😅😅
Sounds like all ALL THE SMOKE interview. Big ups to this basketball Phenom…
Of all the what ifs, this is the only guy I truly felt would go on into the NBA.
i used to go watch shea cotton play at st thomas moore in connecticut where i live...... for free the level of play in juco is unreal........ he was so powerful wen he dunked it was like vince carter in person.... hes the best ive seen at that level ive played aau etc all over since 11 im 32 nmow he was the truth
Facts.
He was the best highschool player in California history 💯
No he wasn't. Man stop. Jason Kidd and a couple more have a better claim to that than Schea does
@@toppdogg2815Jason Kidd was on the first team from Northern California to win State and they did it back to back...💯💯💯💯💯💯
Damnnnn that sucks
Your a legend
thanks bro
I remember reading about him in "Slam" magazine back when that magazine was worth a $hit. SO MANY guys that you would read about and things wouldn't work out. Peeps like Lenny Cooke also.
Caine is a sick youtuber like if you agree
Me
The NCAA played a HUGE part in his lack of success. 🤬
I'm from tustin in orange county.. when I hooped I didnt want to be like mike..i wanted to be like schea! Dude was a monster
Shoutout to you, could've extended your video to 10 min easy 👏
I remember this guy very vividly. This cat was LeBron before he ever existed. He had the OC talking when he was in high school in #Santa Ana. He would just laugh at the other team, because it was so easy to him. He should had a long career in the NBA, out of high school.
Do a story on B.hop ..he played with Chris Bosh and was the star on they team....he was like 5,6 and dominated...like Iverson in high school...his name was big back then...
Dope ass video b
appreciate it breh
All the smoke brought me here fasho
Great video, watch his Ted talk
I know him. From the time he was in Partizan(Serbia). We share the same injury history. I was the only white man who could say black man can not jump. But however from basketball you get some life time friends and connections. And a strong looking body. 😎 I recommend basketball for every kid to develop his body and character.
You should do a story on Lloyd Daniels
Dude i remember this guy coming To play at a tournament in montreal he was da best....could shoot...jump high asf....a beassstttt
do one on Jerome Harmon, ex louisville player from Gary, Ind. was the cardinals leading scorer off the bench the one year he was eligible to play. could have developed into one of the best from Ind.
another great player
You should do a video about Jaron Rush