FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 When the Fresno Pro-Am basketball league started five years ago, the goal was to give local talent a place to work on their game – and give basketball fans a place to catch a good game.<\/p>\n
There was certainly one of those Sunday at Fresno Pacific University, in the second week of Season 5 for the Fresno Pro-Am. <\/p>\n
Fresno native Khristian Holmes (Las Positas College) knocked down the game-winning 3-pointer for The Playmakers. Then he shared why the Fresno Pro-Am is a difference maker,<\/p>\n
“Just gives me the exposure to be around, you know, playing against great players,” Holmes said. “You’re always going to be looked at when you’re playing well against great players.”<\/p>\n
There are 120 players, ranging from high school to professional. Returning talent that played Sunday included former Fresno State basketball players Deshon Taylor and Junior Ballard.<\/p>\n
But that’s not all.<\/p>\n
“This year, we have a lot more new talent,” said Fresno Pro-Am Commissioner Alton Williams. “A lot of talent seeing the Fresno Pro-Am platform, they love what they see, and they’re showing up and showing out for the fans.”<\/p>\n
Headlining the new talent is a former NBL star in Australia and current British Super League player, D.J. Mitchell.<\/p>\n
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“Raised in Fresno, went to Buchanan High School, so yeah, I’ve been around the area for a long time,” said Mitchell. “Just glad to be back. Alton is putting on something great out here. It’s good to be a part of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 When the Fresno Pro-Am basketball league started five years ago, the goal was to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-379534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}