Daily News | Three Philly basketball greats bring their expertise to Cristo Rey’s bench
Cristo Rey head coach Kyle Sample with assistant coaches Rob Lewis, Aaron Owens, Dionte Christmas, and Mike Jolaoso during a game against Solebury School in New Hope. Thursday, January 19, 2023.If your cardiovascular system needs a test, check out a basketball practice at Cristo Rey High School.
With an up-tempo, high-intensity attack on both ends, the Blue Pride , who crushed last year’s Penn-Jersey league champ Solebury, 81-54, last week, are off to a good start. “It’s done everything [for me],” Owens said of basketball. “It’s made me a household name around the world. I can’t even say just the city or in America. No, around the world.”, while the adults reminisce on Owens wielding the ball like a yo-yo, wobbling defenders like day-old deer, and creating moves later borrowed by NBA players.
For the still uninitiated, the AND1 tour billed itself as a collection of the country’s best street ballers who competed with local talent at each stop along a nationwide tour. Highlights were sold on DVDs and eventually aired on ESPN. The tour lasted from 1998 to 2008, added global stops, and turned several of its players into stars. Some were known more for their theatricality.
“It’s not even just about the basketball part,” he added later. “It’s more about the being a man part.”John Hardnett, who mentored so many young Philly ballers before he died in 2010It’s also a lesson Dunphy reinforced recently after seeing Cristo Rey sophomore Devin Booker in action. Booker is an athletic, 6-foot-5 wing who secured his first Division I offer, from Fordham, on Saturday.
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