TheABCD Basketball Camp was a youth basketball camp founded bySonny Vaccaro that was held from 1984 to 2006. The camp gathered the highest rankedhigh school players of theUnited States, and was considered one of the top events of high school basketball.^[1][2][3][4] ABCD stood for Academic Betterment and Career Development.^[5]

The ABCD Camp was founded in 1984 by Sonny Vaccaro and was sponsored byNike.^[6] The camp took place every year in the month of July usually lasting 4–5 days, and was held in different locations in the initial years, among which theBren Events Center atUC Irvine in 1992^[7] and atEastern Michigan University inYpsilanti, Michigan in 1993^[8] before moving to theRothman Center, atFairleigh Dickinson University inHackensack, New Jersey, where the camp was held from 1994 until its final edition in 2006.^[9]

The camp was sponsored by the corporations Vaccaro was signed to: from 1984 to 1992 Nike was the sponsor; in 1993 the camp was under theConverse brand, while from 1994 to 2003Adidas was the sponsor.^[10] After 2003, Vaccaro had a deal with Reebok^[6] that lasted until the last edition of the camp in 2006.^[11] Several college coaches attended ABCD Camp during their recruitment process of high school players: among themBob Bender,Jim Boeheim,P. J. Carlesimo,Joe Harrington andMike Krzyzewski.^{[9][12][13][14]}NBA scouts also participated and in some cases, camp participants weredrafted out of high school, for instanceKevin Garnett,^[14]Kobe Bryant,Jermaine O'Neal,Tracy McGrady,Kwame Brown,Eddy Curry,Sebastian Telfair andGerald Green.^[15]

• 1984–1992:Nike
• 1993:Converse
• 1994–2003:Adidas
• 2004–2006:Reebok

The players mentioned have at least 1All-Star selection in theNBA or were lottery picks in theNBA draft.

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• Basketball in New Jersey
• High school basketball in the United States

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