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Anthony Davis calls Chicago 'the Mecca of basketball,' would consider playing for Bulls someday

CHICAGO - With the heat index hovering near 105 and the thermometer climbing higher inside the second-floor gym at Kenwood Academy High School, Anthony Davis didn't just offer inspirational words for the sweaty mass of middle schoolers who hung on his every word Friday at Nike's Rise camp.

The Chicagoan sweated his way through overseeing some drills and tossed the jump ball to begin a scrimmage, the winners of which get to sit courtside

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