Some of the best hoops in CNY this summer will be played in a small church gym in Camillus

Syracuse, N.Y. — Many of the biggest and baddest basketball players Central New York has produced in recent years gathered to play in a church gymnasium on Tuesday, surrounded by banners celebrating CYO championships and stickers of bumblebees and frogs, firetrucks and race cars.

They talked trash in a venue where reminders to be kind to each filled the walls. Tall men threw down high-flying dunks in a building where stepstools are in place to ensure pre-schoolers can reach the urinals.

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