At Intersection of Hoops and Hip-Hop, Hub Teens Find Jesus

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"You walk down the street in certain neighborhoods around here and you see kids playing pickup [ball]," he said. "The music is blaring while they're playing, and it's always hip-hop. It's something that's uniquely ours and it's a way of communicating within the black community."

"Hip-hop just reaches the guys," said Wesy Gallimore, 37, who has been a coach, player and referee since the league's inception. "A lot of them don't know anything but hip-hop and won't listen to anything else but hiphop. They hear the beat and they start realizing that the beat is good, but the lyrics are about God."

"It's more about putting the ministry and everything it can teach us out on the streets," he said. "It's not limited to one faith and it's not limited to Sundays; we're concerned with what you do the rest of the week, too."

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At Intersection of Hoops and Hip-Hop, Hub Teens Find Jesus

There is a group of young men gathered at mid-court, and there is a basketball. From a distance, it looks like the start of any other pickup game, when players jockey for position at center court to await the tip-off.

But this is not kind of basketball that the court at the Anthony Perkins Communit...

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