{"id":803401,"date":"2026-08-05T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803401\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:34:09","slug":"rochester-native-and-nba-player-thomas-bryant-teams-up-with-ymca-for-free-youth-basketball-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803401\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester native and NBA player Thomas Bryant teams up with YMCA for free youth basketball camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 NBA player and Rochester native Thomas Bryant is bringing his basketball camp back to his hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bryant is partnering with the YMCA of Greater Rochester and the City of Rochester, both of which played integral parts in his journey to the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHosting my camp in my hometown is always exciting,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cI would spend every day playing basketball at the Y and in R-Centers, hours on hours of just practicing while my mom worked.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s camp will be hosted at Vertus Charter School on Saturday, August. 8. It\u2019s free and open to youth ages 9-18, with two sessions available based on age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first session runs from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. for ages 9-13. The second session runs from 3 to 5:30 p.m. for ages 14-18. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to continue to work with kids like me, and partner with the Y and the City to impact the lives of kids and teens in my hometown,\u201d Bryant said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those attending the camp will work alongside Bryant and volunteer coaches to learn the fundamentals of basketball including ball handling, passing and shooting to improve their game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Rose, director of community athletics for the City of Rochester, said he has known Bryant since he was in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am extremely proud of all his professional and personal accomplishments,\u201d Rose said. \u201cBut I am most proud of the upstanding young man he has become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every player at camp will get a T-shirt, snacks, and other giveaways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 NBA player and Rochester native Thomas Bryant is bringing his basketball camp back to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-803401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}