Breakthrough Atlanta, in partnership with the National Basketball Retired Players Association (Atlanta Chapter), is proud to announce the 2^nd Annual Celebrity Basketball Game to be held on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at 6:00 p.m. Hosted at The Lovett School, Wallace Gymnasium and proudly sponsored by Aarons, Inc. and supported by NBA Cares, the game will feature a friendly competition between Team Dale Ellis and Team Dikembe Mutombo, along with fellow NBA legends Zach Randolph, Courtney Alexander, Shawn Marion, Rod Sellers, Kevin Willis, Theo Ratliffe, Dennis Scott, Brian Oliver, Brian Domalick, and Mark Davis. Streetball Legend “Hot Sauce” and “Mosquito” from the Ball Up series are rounding out the lineup for the game. Tickets can be purchased for $10 through May 27, 2016 when prices will increase to $15. To purchase tickets, please click here.

The Aaron’s Fun Zone will kick-off at 4:30 p.m. and continue until game time with carnival games, a free throw contest, face painting, music, a food truck, and King of Pops popsicles.

“It is an honor to present this celebrity basketball game to the Atlanta community,” said Courtney Alexander, former NBA star and Development and Outreach Associate at Breakthrough Atlanta. “This unique event brings the NBA family together in support of one of Atlanta’s finest organizations committed to educational success. Having both retired and current NBA players under Lovett’s roof is remarkable in itself, but it also serves as an opportunity to bridge the gap between sports and education.”

This basketball game is part of a series of events planned in celebration of Breakthrough Atlanta’s 20 years of providing an academically intense six-year path to college for middle school students and hands-on teaching internships for high school and college students. In February 2016, Breakthrough Atlanta and The Lovett School hosted a thought-provoking panel discussion on the Civil Rights Movement with Dr. Bernice King, chief executive officer of The King Center and youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Robert Franklin, former president of Morehouse College, and Andrew Aydin ‘02, digital director and policy advisor to Congressman John Lewis.

In addition, that month, Breakthrough Atlanta and The Lovett School parents and students, including humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo, embarked on a day trip to Selma, Alabama following the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rep. John Lewis and other foot solders of the 1965 movement. The day culminated with a walk across the Edmund Pettus bridge just as the activists did on the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 50 years ago.