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June 10, 2015
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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.
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