Retired NBA star Chris Bosh is most well-known for being part of the Miami Heat's Big 3, along with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. This trio would go on to win back-to-back titles for the franchise in 2012 and 2013, and at one point, these three almost seemed inseparable.

However, before there was a Heat Big 3, Bosh was the cornerstone superstar for the Toronto Raptors, an Eastern Conference team that would oftentimes face off against LeBron's Cleveland Cavaliers.

In Bosh's recent write-up for The Players' Tribune, the 11-time All-Star detailed his first encounter with a very young and hungry LeBron, even before both guys were running the show in the NBA:

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A few weeks ago, I was actually just watching old tape of that 2001 ABCD game.

He did it all, and he did it all easy. That’s one of the things that sticks out to me, playing it back these years later. It was like the pressure we all felt….. he somehow didn’t feel it. He was just this whole other shade of cool. And then the other thing that sticks out to me, it’s maybe a little more obvious: dude’s game. He already had such a complete game. And I mean — we’re in a gym full of somebodies: athletes, shooters, dunkers. Future college stars. Future PROS. But only one guy in that gym that day had the complete package already. And looking back on it?? That was the camp that really put him on the national map.

By the end of the game, I asked my coach — well, I asked him the only question there was.

“Yo….. Coach….. who is this guy?”

And he just shook his head. Looked at me almost like his heart was breaking. Like he was about to sit me down and break the news that Santa wasn’t real.

“That,” he said. “Is LeBron James.”

We all know how great LeBron was even as a high school player, but coming from a likely future Hall of Famer, this narrative only adds awe to the type of athlete James was and definitely still is.