All–star Weekend promises to be bigger, better

Oct 14, 2008 Sports

–basketball entertainment takes centre court

By Edison Jefford
The management of the 2008 All–star Weekend are currently engineering what they hope will be the biggest and best basketball entertainment extravaganza in the seven year history of the spectacular calendar event.

The Wildfire Promotions team, architects of ultra successful entertainment stage shows, are working feverishly to ensure that all their bases are covered ahead of next weekend’s showdown at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The group has disclosed that there will be surprises that was never part of prior All–star events and in fact, the company has duly dubbed the 2008 event: ‘The Staff Party’ to introduce a mind boggling concept to patrons.

For the first time in the history of the event, basketball and entertainment will collide in a spectacular display of ‘Showtime’ skill. The best junior and senior talents in Linden and Georgetown are expected to be on display.

Last year, Georgetown’s Kurt Sunich out–shown Linden’s Orin Rose from three–point range to capture the junior title but with Sunich out of the equation this year, a new champion will certainly emerge.

Sunich is out of Guyana but that does not take away from the competition because Chris Williams from Linden, for instance, who recently shot Royals to victory over Courts Pacesetters, is a lethal campaigner.

Williams and Rose will mount the Mining Town’s challenge while Georgetown will look for a new star. The rivalries in every aspect of the game will fuse together to form an explosion that was never before seen at the venue.

Whether it’s dunking, dribbling, shooting or just defence, the All–star Weekend will have the best local talents on show in a party atmosphere that is likely to create a ‘Madison Square Garden basketball experience.

Georgetown’s Stephon Gillis is the defending senior three–point shootout champion and will certainly be defending that title this year; Linden’s Steve Neils Jr. is expected to stage a challenge in that category.

The management of the All–star weekend has promised to release all the details of the two nights of basketball entertainment at a later date but for now, the mill is running and a class act might be the likely outcome.