Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played under his birth name Lew Alcindor at Power Memorial Academy in New York, and LeBron James, who starred at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, are widely considered by basketball historians and analysts to be the two greatest high school basketball players of all time. Both players achieved unprecedented national media acclaim, captured multiple state and national championships, broke scoring records, and translated their legendary high school dominance into historic, Hall of Fame professional careers.