Former Niles players taking on Streetball Legends All-Stars

Published 3:38 pm Saturday, May 29, 2004

By Staff
CASSOPOLIS -- The World's Greatest Streetball Legends All-Stars kick off their 20-cities Streetball American Legendary Tour in Cassopolis playing the Southwestern Michigan All-Stars.
The Legendary Tour All-Stars bring their flying acrobatic, thunderous dunk, extremely accurate outside shooting, killer crosses to Southwest Michigan, on Thursday, June 10, at 7 p.m. at Cassopolis Ross Beatty Jr./Sr. High School.
The Legends feature Randy "White Chocolate" Gill, known on Magic Johnson's MTV "Who Got Game" show. He averages 37 points per game.
Other stars include Malloy "The Future" Nesmith who displays his mad handling ridiculous quickness, killer crosses, along with high-flying 45 inch vertical jump "Kiss the Rim" style dunking Jason "Birdman" Williams and others.
The Southwestern Michigan All-Stars will defend their home turf with 10-15 of the best players in lower Southwestern Michigan in the last five years.
From Cassopolis the team includes Rodney Lee, Joe Alford, Anthony Curry, Derek Outlaw, Andrew McKenna and Lamar Gillam. From Niles will be Keith Barr, Adam Shepherdson, Desmond Favors, and Corey Thacker. From Dowagiac is Daniel Ward; from Buchanan, Justin Thompson, and from Marcellus, Dustin Perry.
Advance tickets are $10, or tickets are $15 at the door. The doors open at 6 p.m.
Advanced tickets can be purchased at Tony's Talk of the Town, 111 S. Rowland St., Cassopolis; Frankies BBQ, 1305 N. Fifth St., Niles, and Kelly Convenience Store, 1008 Red Bud Trail, Buchanan.