It didn't take long into his organized sports career for Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James to understand he was a different kind of talent. Appearing on Complex's 360 With Speedy, James said he "thought I was pretty special" in his first year of youth football and basketball. The 21-time NBA All-Star also pointed to his runner-up finish in a national AAU tournament as an eighth-grader as a time when he comprehended his immense potential. "At that point in time in that tournament, I was like doing things that I hadn't did the summer before," he said. In his famous piece on James from 2002, christening the teenager as "The Chosen One," Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl also cited that AAU tournament as a turning point in LeBron's basketball career.