The search for the next can't-miss high school basketball player ended with another first-name phenom, Sebastian, well before LeBron James made his NBA summer league debut.

Lincoln High senior point guard Sebastian Telfair actually hit the big-time about a year or so before people outside of Akron, Ohio, started to find out about King James. That's what happens when you play basketball in Brooklyn, amidst the New York hype.

"Emotionally, coming from New York City, I think I'm more ready than LeBron ever was," Telfair said this summer. "I've been through it more. It'll be a lot different for me this year, but then again, every year is different. I've just got to stay focused."

James and Telfair really aren't all that different. Both players make those around them better with their passing skills and exceptional court vision. They both have a megawatt smile and the ability to handle the pressures of popularity with ease. And no one questions their work ethic, which for Telfair includes running the 15 flights of stairs in his Coney Island apartment building five times each morning.

The two have enough in common that they have become buddies and talk almost weekly despite all the chaos that surfaces around each.

However, there's one major difference. James is 6 feet 8 and a rock-solid 240 pounds while Telfair is 6 feet and tips the scales at a meager 170. James was a lock for the top pick in this past NBA draft from the moment his senior high school season began. Telfair, if he opts to bypass college and become the first sub-6-5 player to make the jump, would be anything but a lock to go in the lottery.