Needing two teams to fill entries in both the Fab 48 and The 8 events this week, the New Jersey Playaz found the perfect way to create an alter ego.
Their entry in The 8 is officially known as the "Playaz Basketball Club Armoni Sexton All-Stars," honoring the 15-year-old rising star from New Jersey who was shot and killed in 2015, putting an abrupt end to a promising life and basketball career.
“That was big for us” to play on a team named for him,” said Playaz guard Jahvon Quinerly, a top UA recruiting target who said he played with Sexton in seventh and eighth grades. “He was really good… and he had a great sense of humor. The basketball community misses him.”
