The King's Lost Games

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The King's Lost Games

How the games came to be

The year was 2001. Akron, Ohio was home to the greatest high school athlete phenom that the world was ever to see. As the accolades from the national media continued to mount, so did the interest in seeing a young man begin to play out his destiny as the greatest basketball player of all time.

However, as the road to greatness is usually a curvy one, the young phenom’s high school gym could not physically hold all of the masses that were interested in seeing this once in a generation athlete. This, coupled with the throngs of national media that had to see things for themselves, created quite a conundrum as to how the public’s appetite for a live look at the greatest athlete of this generation could be satiated.

Beginning with the idea that a closed-circuit broadcast within the high school could solve the problem, St. Vincent St. Mary High School opted to change the venue to the University of Akron for all but a couple of select games. They also entertained a unique idea presented by the creators of The Lost Games to broadcast the games on Pay-Per-View—something that had never been done before. After much determination and ingenuity, the PPV idea was a go!

6 Cameras and a Vision

The creators of the senior year Lost Games began a journey that eventually captured dozens of hours of historically significant footage. The unique story told by the Lost Tapes is narrated by long-time play-by-play men Jeff Phelps and Jim Clark, who only added to the Lost Games’ production and entertainment value.

When all was said and done, 15 games were broadcast on Pay-Per-View of the phenom’s Senior season. However outside of the limited broadcast of famous clips (ex. the under the legs dunk), the Kings Lost Games were never seen by the public again. Three of the phenom’s Junior season were also broadcast on local television and were never seen again as well

Fast forwarding nearly 2 decades later, we all know that the young phenom fulfilled his destiny in every way. What we also know is that the Lost Games is the only video chronicle of perhaps the most historically significant 32 hours of sports footage to exist. While many fascinating details and stories litter the history of their making, this is how the Lost Games came to be.