TORONTO — On the night that he entered the NBA in 2003, someone asked LeBron James to assess the potential of the draft class that he was headlining as the No. 1 pick.

James answered quickly.

“You’ll see,” James said.

People did see, of course. And when it comes to the stars in that class, they’re still seeing.

This All-Star weekend has been a celebration of all things Kobe Bryant, whose career ends when his 20th season concludes with the Los Angeles Lakers in a couple months. But his presence in Toronto also left some of the other veterans – like that 2003 draft foursome of James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade – taking stock of their own careers as well.

And while they’re all still playing at an extremely high level, what they’ve already accomplished merits including them in the debate of which draft class was the best. Only four drafts in the last 40 years produced at least three 20,000-point scorers, and the 2003 group is on target to get there in a few weeks when Wade reaches that scoring milestone.

“There’s a lot of great draft classes, man,” said Wade, citing 1984 and 1996 in particular. “We’ve got a good draft class. We’ve got some good players, some Hall of Fame players in our draft class. But it’s hard to compete against the past and what those players have done, especially when you’re doing it still. You don’t get that until it’s all done and everybody sees the full body of work.”

The exploits of the 2003 group are well chronicled.

Wade won his first NBA championship in 2006 for Miami, then added more titles in 2012 and 2013 with Bosh and James as Heat teammates. Wade and James are 12-time All-Stars, Bosh is an 11-time selection and Anthony is a nine-time pick. James has four MVP awards and will be generally considered the best player of his era – if not any era.

They may be the best class ever.

James thinks so, for certain.

“I’m definitely biased for sure,” said James, who led Cleveland to last season’s NBA finals. “You just look at our resumes, the things that we’ve done in our class, we’ve got multiple champions, we’ve got MVPs, we have All-Stars, we have everything that you can ask for.”

The sense of nostalgia is kicking in, without question.