Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Connecticut Select team needs your vote

Remember we told you about The Basketball Tournament, an ESPN-created event to be held this summer with a $2 million, winner-take-all pot? Well, a bunch of Connecticut natives, including former Yale forward Brandon Sherrod and New Haven playground legend Bobby Moore, are trying to qualify - and they need your vote.

Teams need to have at least 200 fan votes and seven eligible players on its roster to qualify for the 64-team tourney, and the local team -- named Connecticut Select -- needs more votes. Voting ends at noon on Wednesday and can be done at thetournament.com.

The Connecticut Select roster is listed below:

Bobby Moore 5-10 New Haven

Danny Lawhorn 5-10 Hartford

Julian Allen 6-5 Waterbury

Brandon Sherrod 6-7 Bridgeport

Roosevelt Lee 6-7 New Britain

Deitrick King 6-7 New Britain

Marcus James 6-7 Waterbury

Dale Saunders 6-8 Waterbury

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Monday, July 6, 2015

Greater Hartford Pro-Am returns to Hartford on Wednesday night

After a couple of years at Waterbury's Crosby High, the Greater Hartford Pro-Am officially returns to ... well ... Hartford on Wednesday night. Games will be played at the Sport & Medical Sciences Academy at 208 Huyshope Ave. in Hartford.

The GHPA's 2015 season kicks off at 6:30 p.m., with Attorney Deron Freeman (led by Tobin Carberry and a host of players from Central Connecticut) facing Pauly Chute Slamm (which will be led by a pair of terrific New Haven guards past and present -- Bobby Moore and Tremont Waters. Waters, a UConn target, won't be at Wednesday night's game. Stanley Robinson is also on the team).

At 8:15 p.m., New York's Hot 93.7 (last year's scoring champ Doug Herring, Anthony Cox) will face two-time defending champion BJM Law Firm (Ryan Gomes, Keith Cothran, Lamonte Ulmer, Kelvin Davis).

Other top players expected to compete in the 11-team league include Jerome Dyson, Doug Wiggins and A.J. Price. The league could get some special guest appearances: on Aug. 1-2, Nate Robinson is expected to play. Other possible players throughout the summer could include Andre Drummond, Rudy Gay, Kemba Walker, Jeremy Lamb and Wes Matthews.

And, as always, several current UConn players are expected to play throughout the summer.








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Friday, August 23, 2013

The Top 15 Plays from This Year's Greater Hartford Pro-Am

I don't normally get too into this kind of stuff, but this was sent to me on Twitter, and it's pretty cool.

Personally, I think No. 2 (the dunks by Lamonte Ulmer and the alley-oop between the Saunders brothers) should have been No. 1. Also thought Bobby Moore's great move at No. 7 should have been higher, but maybe that's some New Haven bias.

Anyway, here are the top 15 plays of the Greater Hartford Pro-Am this summer, in a well-done video:

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