From NBE Basketball Report

While most of the top college coaches and AAU teams were in Indianapolis to start the July live period, 75 of the best high school players in the classes of 2011 and 2012 – and one from the class of 2013 – convened at the University of Akron for the LeBron James Skills Academy starting Monday night and running into Wednesday afternoon. It was the culmination of four separate skills academies over the past weeks: those of Deron Williams, Paul Pierce, Kevin Durant and Amar’e Stoudemire. It was a true camp setting, with dozens of drills, but there was one noticeable difference: the King himself, LeBron James, showed up to play pick-up with the players with his one-hour ESPN special to announce his free agent destination looming Thursday night.

While there was not too much to analyze from the campers based on various passing and dribbling drills, there was plenty of recruiting notes and updates to pass along as Alex Schwartz caught up with players such as Amir Williams, Khem Birch, Deng Leek and Angelo Chol for detailed discussions about their current recruiting situations.

Amir Williams, a 6-foot-10, 220-pound center from Detroit Country Day School (MI) in the class of 2011, has a long list of schools on his trail. Williams mentioned on Tuesday that Kentucky, Duke, Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State, North Carolina, Oklahoma, UCLA, Arizona, Texas, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Miami, Georgetown, and USC are all recruiting him and UNC is the only one he does not have a scholarship offer from yet.

Williams does “not right now” have any favorites as it is “still early in the process” for him.

To read the rest of this article from NBE Basketball Report about players I interviewed at the LJSA (Amir Williams, Khem Birch, Deng Leek, and Angelo Chol), click Here.

To read Jeff Borzello's LeBron James Skills Academy Recruiting Notes: Part I at NBE Basketball Report, click Here.