Twenty years ago today, The Post’s Mike Vaccaro and Mark Hale went to Trenton, N.J., to cover a high school showcase featuring a heavily hyped phenom by the name of LeBron James. Now, after James became the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on Tuesday, they look back on that incredible night in 2003 — and how it foretold the basketball history to come.
Early on the afternoon of Feb. 8, 2003, if you’d walked to the box office at Sovereign Bank Arena in downtown Trenton, asked for two tickets to the hotly anticipated Liza Minelli concert in a few weeks’ time, you could still get choice sets, right on the floor.
If you wanted to see Cher in June? Plenty of good seats still available.
But if you were looking for ducats for that evening’s main event, you received a sad look and a few helpful words from the woman at the ticket window.
