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Page 8 June 10, 2015 S Rose ports City Showcase Tips Off Tournament opens Friday for top basketball prospects The Rose City Showcase, an official Rose Festival basketball tournament organized by Port- land’s Courtside Entertainment and sponsored by Nike tips off Friday, June 12 at Lewis and Clark College in southwest Portland. With games over three days to Sunday, June 14, the Showcase will once again feature the nation’s top grassroots basketball players. The community is welcome to at- tend the many match-ups, catch- ing a glimpse of future college and NBA stars of tomorrow. Before Dwight Howard became an NBA All-Star, before Josh Smith and Gerald Green won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, before O.J. Mayo, Michael Beasley, and Kevin Love became All-Amer- icans and before Brandon Rush and Mario Chalmers led Kansas to the 2008 NCAA Championship, they all had one thing in common - they participated in the Rose City Showcase. Opening night with feature four power-packed match-ups, featur- ing an abundance of elite national Braxton Blackwell Josh Langford Kobi Simmons Payton Pritchard talent from the classes of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Some of the players include Payton Pritchard , Kobi Simmons, Josh Langford, Braxton Blackwell, Zach Collins, Daron Henson, Evan Leonard, Rylan Bergersen, Lamar Winston, Kolby Lee, Sam Bittner and Jer- main Haley. Feature games will be played at Lewis and Clark College. All other Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s divisional games will tip off Sat- urday morning at Lewis & Clark College, Beaverton Hoop YMCA, Jefferson High School and Ben- son High School. For maps and detailed schedules visit rosecity- showcase.com A portion of the proceeds will benefit Portland Inner City Play- ers Athletics, a local non-profit “Providing a foundation for stu- dent athletes to succeed person- ally, academically and athletical- ly.” For more information, visit InnerCityPlayers.org or contact Canaan Chatman at 503-381-3215 or email canaan@courtsideenter- tainment.com. Harris Photography 503-730-1156 Family Portraits $65 Senior High Photos $65 antonioharris@mac.com 4545 N.E. MLK 97211 Advertise with diversity in The Portland Observer Call 503-288-0033 or email ads@portlandobserver.com
