Hawks and Chase Workforce Up with Fantastic Sporting activities to Offer Basketball Gear and Offer Clinics to Regional Youth as Part of ‘Project Rebound’ Initiative

Hawks and Chase Workforce Up with Fantastic Sporting activities to Offer Basketball Gear and Offer Clinics to Regional Youth as Part of ‘Project Rebound’ Initiative

Chase to Current Examine to Atlanta Hawks Foundation During Tonight’s Video game Far more Than 20,000 Parts of Devices Donated and 6,000 Kids Impacted Due to the fact Start of Local community-Targeted Initiative

ATLANTA – Later tonight in the course of the Hawks activity, Chase will existing a check to the Atlanta Hawks Basis in assist of Job Rebound. Brigitte Killings-Luckey, Chase’s Head of Group and Organization Advancement for the South will present the verify from Chase, and David Lee, Executive Director of the Atlanta Hawks Basis, will take the look at on behalf of Task Rebound. Because the start of the neighborhood-targeted initiative in 2018, the Hawks have furnished far more than 20,000 pieces of sports activities devices to a lot more than 6,000 young ones by way of the countrywide non-revenue corporation, Very good Sporting activities.

The donation from Chase will help source basketball and health and fitness devices for youth programming at Title I educational institutions and nonprofits servicing superior-require communities. Taking part educational institutions and organizations will get requested merchandise which includes backpacks, basketballs, basketball shoes, towels, follow uniforms and more.

“We are grateful for the generous help the Atlanta Hawks Basis has gained from our focused associates at Chase and collectively with them, we are committed to encouraging youthful Atlanta men and women prosper,” said Govt Vice President of Exterior Affairs and Executive Director of the Atlanta Hawks Foundation David Lee. “This donation will boost Atlanta’s youth obtain to means that construct a healthier and potent potential.” 

As portion of the four-portion initiative, the Hawks, Chase and Great Sports are hosting four basketball clinics from February through May possibly with find organizations. In February, the Hawks and Centre Clint Capela hosted the very first Project Rebound clinic at the John Lewis Invictus Academy for nearby

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Court Report: Oscar Tshiebwe, Fardaws Aimaq reaching and racing for modern rebound record

Court Report: Oscar Tshiebwe, Fardaws Aimaq reaching and racing for modern rebound record

Men’s college basketball hasn’t had a player average more than 15.0 rebounds in more than four decades. Might we see two players do it this season?

Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe and Utah Valley’s Fardaws Aimaq each have a shot to become the first since Alcorn’s Larry Smith (18.1 rpg) in 1979-80 to snag more than 15.0 boards per game. Aimaq, in fact, averaged exactly 15.0 rebounds last season, albeit in only 20 games against D-I teams. (Doing it vs. a full schedule would qualify as a smidge more proper.)

While there have been superb carom-snaggers this century, the era of the dominant, game-changing rebounder has been gone so long from the college game it may as well be extinct. Tshiebwe and Aimaq are here to revive the role out of the amber. Tshiebwe leads the nation in rebound average (15.4); he’s No. 1 in offensive-rebound rate (27.6%) and No. 2 in defensive (34.4%). He also has seven double-doubles — tied with Aimaq (14.8 rpg) for most in the sport. 

In the preseason, Tshiebwe said his goal was to average 20 rebounds. CBS Sports caught up with him Tuesday night after Kentucky’s 76-64 win over Southern. He was happy with the W, of course, but let down because he fell short of his every-game objective: Tshiebwe finished with 11 boards. Oh, he had a game-high 23 points, too. But we talked about the rebounds and that preseason proclamation. 

“I’m guaranteeing again I can do it,” he said. “My goal is to go for 20 every time. I fight all the time for 20. When I don’t get it, it’s good we won, but I feel like I didn’t [fulfill] my purpose.”

Tshiebwe runs instant calculations in his head every time a shot goes up.

“If someone shoots from the right, it’s a

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