Basketball Recruiting Basketball is experiencing an extreme youth movement. High school phenom LeBron James is expected to be the first player taken in the next NBA draft. It doesn't stop there.

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December 13, 200212:00 AM ET

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Basketball is experiencing an extreme youth movement. High school phenom LeBron James is expected to be the first player taken in the next NBA draft. It doesn't stop there. Young prospects are being identified, wooed and scrutinized in junior high, even earlier. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.