Chicagoland All Star Classic Basketball Game
It's not an all-star break but it is an All Star Weekend in Chicago . Some of the best-of-the-best NBA superstars will be converging on the city this month as the highly-anticipated Chicagoland All-Star Classic basketball game returns for its 6th anniversary year.
A virtual Who's Who of the basketball worlds' elite current and past performers, such as greats Antoine Walker, Corey Maggette, Michael Finley, Dwayne Wade, Antoine Walker, Juwan Howard, Quinton Richardson, Shawn Marion, Bobby Simmons, Nazr Muhammad, Sam Cassell, Steve Francis, Josh Smith, Stephon Marbury have participated and are invited again this year.
The 2006 classic tips-off at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, August 12th at the United Center , 1901 W. Madison St . And, best of all, it's all for charity with hosts The Support Group and Antoine Walker's 8 Foundation the beneficiaries.
With the recent shooting of school age children the event this year will hold a special "Silence the Violence" Teen Summit on Friday, August 10 @ 9:00am - 1:00pm at Julian High School . Other highlights not to be missed are performances by the new ABA Chicago Rockets Cheerleaders, local mascots "Benny the Bull" and "Chicago Sky," plus several Chicago-area acrobatic teams and dance troupes.
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Shannon Brown (a Maywood native) stopped by to talk about the game.
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http://www.thesupportgroup.org