A Memorial Day Weekend tradition in Seattle, the tournament features some of city’s top basketball talent playing to promote non-violence in honor of Rahsaan Phillips, a popular Central District barber and Garfield Community Center volunteer who was a victim of gun violence at the age of 25. The three day tournament features players from around the city, including NBA players such as Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, Shawn Kemp, Jamal Crawford, Terrence Williams, Aaron Brooks, Martell Webster and Spencer Hawes. Money raised from the event is donated to charitable causes.
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Brandon Roy’s body could have used some rest. Instead, the former Garfield High and UW basketball standout spent three days at the Cleveland High School gym playing in the Rip The Cut tournament, sweat drenching his jersey in the air-conditioner-deprived gym. The Portland Trail Blazers star, who missed games this season because of a sprained ankle and sore heel, could have used the Memorial Day weekend as a respite before beginning a demanding workout regimen to improve his game. But there Roy was, playing with some of his NBA buddies for Home Team during the tournament, relishing the opportunity to play in front of his hometown faithful in a city dangerously close to losing men’s professional basketball. Seattle’s ever-burgeoning basketball tradition was on display in front of dozens of kids who studied Roy’s pull-up move or Jamal Crawford‘s slashes to the basket and then were eager to test their newly learned moves during game breaks. After soaking in three days of adulation from kids, hugs from old friends and a rare chance to play with some of his high school rivals, Roy was grateful to delay his rest period. Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Hoops-heroes-come-home-1274559.php#ixzz1NbvOlsNt [Seattle Times]
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