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The news is flying happily that Xavier’s Jordan Crawford dunked on LeBron James yesterday at the King’s basketball camp in Akron, Ohio. The footage is not flying whatsoever.

Turns out, there were at least two cameras rolling Monday night when Crawford dunked on Jamesduring a pick-up game here at the LeBron James Skills Academy. It was a two-handed jam, the kind that would’ve circulated quickly on YouTube. But Nike officials eliminated that possibility shortly after the dunk happened by allegedly confiscating tapes from various cameramen.

Freelance photographer Ryan Miller was one of the cameramen shooting the game.

He told CBSSports.com that Nike Basketball Senior Director Lynn Merritt took his tape.

“He just said, ‘We have to take your tape,'” Miller said. “They took it from other guys, too.”

Shucks, if we only knew someone who was there, either participating or observing. What’s that? We do?

We most certainly do!

Devin Ebanks of West Virginia matched up against Patrick Cristopher (California) and had his work cut out for him. Christopher had the step on him offensively, dropping several threes in his face. Ebanks later squared off against Dwayne Collins (Kansas) and showed much of the same, having a hard time keeping Collins in front of him.

On the offensive end, Ebanks had a rough time to start, as he was driving through double teams, getting picked off and having a hard time getting open against Collins’ strong frame. He just couldn’t find the ball at all early on.

Ebanks found his way later on, however, as he attracted a double team, forced both in the air and kicked off to a wide open man on the perimeter on one play, and drove the ball to the lane for the nice finish several times, when squared up against Christopher and Collins.