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SUMMER SESSION

THE LOCATION MAY have changed, but the mission has remained the same. What started on the campus of Princeton University with then-high schoolers Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O’Neal and Baron Davis almost 30 years ago continues going strong as the game gets passed on to newer generations. After 12 years at the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena, which was followed by a oneyear hiatus in 2020 due to the global pandemic, the NBPA Top 100 Camp found its newest home in the summer of 2021. This time, it was at a massive, 220-acre multi-purpose sports complex, the ESPN Wide World of Sports, inside the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL.

The camp provides an

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