SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – The Chris Paul Household Basis and the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame have introduced Walmart will function the presenting sponsor for the Toyota Chris Paul HBCU Basic, set to happen this week, December 19-20, on the Mohegan Solar Enviornment in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Introduced in Could, the brand new format of the Toyota Chris Paul HBCU Basic, offered by Walmart unites the HBCU Tip-Off and Problem below one roof on the Mohegan Solar. This collaboration gives a possibility for each the Chris Paul Household Basis and the Basketball Corridor of Fame organizations to honor and spotlight the wealthy heritage of HBCU athletics, with Toyota and Walmart taking part in key roles in elevating the expertise for each athletes and attendees.
“HBCU Sports activities proceed to thrive and I am excited concerning the progress of the sport of basketball by way of our HBCU Basic,” mentioned Chris Paul.
Toyota Chris Paul HBCU Basic bracket info:
BRACKET 1
Thursday, December 19
12:00 PM ET – Benedict Faculty vs. Lincoln, PA (ESPN+)
2:30 PM ET – Winston Salem State vs. Kentucky State (ESPN+)
Friday, December 20
11:00 AM ET – Comfort (ESPN+)
1:30 PM ET – Championship (ESPN+)
BRACKET 2
Thursday, December 19
5:00 PM ET – Norfolk State vs. Alabama State (ESPNU)
7:30 PM ET – Delaware State vs. Grambling (ESPNU)
Friday, December 20
4:00 PM ET – Norfolk State vs. Grambling (ESPNU)
6:30 PM ET – Delaware State vs. Alabama State (ESPNU)
Tickets for the 2024 Toyota Chris Paul HBCU Basic, offered by Walmart, are on sale now through Ticketmaster and on the Mohegan Solar Enviornment Field Workplace.
For extra particulars, please go to hoophall.com.
About Chris Paul
Affectionately often known as the Level God, Chris Paul is a 12-time NBA All-Star and two-time Olympic Gold medalist. He was named to the NBA’s seventy fifth Anniversary group as one of many 75 best gamers in NBA historical past. In 2021, Paul grew to become the primary participant in league historical past to document 20,000 factors and 10,000 assists of their profession. He ranks third on the NBA all-time profession assists checklist. Paul is getting into his twentieth season within the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs and has beforehand performed with the Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers, and New Orleans Hornets. Paul attended Wake Forest College and was chosen 4th within the 2005 NBA Draft. He accomplished his diploma in 2022 from HBCU Winston-Salem State College.
Off the courtroom, he’s a father, husband, entrepreneur, activist, writer, and philanthropist. His latest New York Occasions best-selling memoir, Sixty-One: Life Classes from Papa, On and Off the Courtroom, is a robust and sudden memoir of household, religion, tragedy, and life’s most essential classes.
He served as the previous President of the Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation from 2013 till 2021. His manufacturing firm, Ohh Dip!!! Productions, creates content material throughout a number of platforms and has produced three docuseries with ESPN on HBCU tradition with NC Central Mens Basketball, HBCU Soccer (FAMU) and HBCU Dance Southern Univ Dancing Dolls and Grambling College band.
Paul’s enterprise footprint is numerous, with a portfolio that features minority possession of the Indian Premier League’s Rajasthan Royals and the Winston-Salem Sprint in his residence state of North Carolina, in addition to possession of the CP3 Basketball Academy. His Workforce CP3 AAU groups at present has 14 gamers within the NBA. Notable long-standing model partnerships embrace State Farm and Jordan Model and he based a plant-based wholesome snack model, Good Eat’n.
About The Chris Paul Household Basis
The Chris Paul Household Basis continues to supply assets that enrich and strengthen underserved communities throughout the nation by way of its Membership 61 Management Alliance and the accredited HBCU Enterprise of Leisure Media and Sports activities class at NC A&T and Southern College. Paul co-launched the Social Change Fund United with Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony, which is devoted to investing in and supporting organizations centered on empowering communities of colour and advocating for fundamental human rights and liberties. He serves on President Joe Biden’s advisory board on Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities. His philanthropic efforts have earned him the 2016 ESPYs “Humanitarian of the Yr” award, the 2016 Mannie Jackson Human Spirit Award, and the NBA Group Help Award 5 occasions. Chris can be the primary recipient of the Kobe and Gigi Bryant Advocacy Award for his important contributions to the development of women’ and ladies’s basketball and advocacy for the WNBA.
Concerning the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame
Situated in Springfield, Massachusetts, the town the place basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame is an impartial non-profit 501(c)(3) group devoted to selling, preserving, and celebrating the sport of basketball at each degree—women and men, beginner {and professional} gamers, coaches, and contributors—each domestically and internationally. The Corridor of Fame museum is residence to greater than 475 inductees and over 40,000 sq. toes of basketball historical past. Practically 200,000 folks go to the Corridor of Fame museum annually to be taught concerning the recreation, expertise the interactive reveals, and take a look at their expertise on the Jerry Colangelo “Courtroom of Goals.” Greatest identified for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the sport’s elite, the Corridor of Fame additionally operates over 70 highschool and collegiate competitions yearly all through the nation and overseas. For extra info on the Basketball Corridor of Fame group, its museum, and occasions, go to hoophall.com and observe @hoophall.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been part of the cultural cloth within the U.S. for greater than 65 years, and is dedicated to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility by way of our Toyota and Lexus manufacturers, plus our practically 1,500 dealerships.
Toyota immediately employs greater than 49,000 folks within the U.S. who’ve contributed to the design, engineering, and meeting of greater than 34 million automobiles and vans at our 9 manufacturing crops. By 2025, Toyota’s tenth plant in North Carolina will start to fabricate automotive batteries for electrified automobiles. With extra electrified automobiles on the highway than some other automaker, Toyota at present affords 29 electrified choices.
By means of its Driving Prospects initiative, the Toyota USA Basis has dedicated to creating revolutionary academic applications inside, and in partnership with, traditionally underserved communities close to the corporate’s U.S. working websites.
For extra details about Toyota, go to www.ToyotaNewsroom.com.
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is a people-led, tech-powered omnichannel retailer serving to folks get monetary savings and dwell higher — anytime and anyplace — in shops, on-line, and thru their cellular units. Every week, roughly 255 million prospects and members go to greater than 10,500 shops and quite a few eCommerce web sites in 19 international locations. With fiscal yr 2024 income of $648 billion, Walmart employs roughly 2.1 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a pacesetter in sustainability, company philanthropy, and employment alternative. Extra details about Walmart might be discovered by visiting company.walmart.com, on Fb at fb.com/walmart, on X (previously often known as Twitter) at twitter.com/walmart, and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/firm/walmart.
About Mohegan Solar Enviornment
Mohegan Solar Enviornment, one of many busiest sports activities and leisure venues on this planet at present, was awarded the 2024 Newsweek Readers’ Selection award for “Greatest On line casino with Dwell Leisure in America.” Mohegan Solar Enviornment was additionally named “Greatest On line casino/Resort Venue of the Yr” on the thirty fifth Annual Pollstar Awards. In 2021, the ten,000-seat area additionally obtained its first “#1 Indoor Enviornment” rating for its dimension on this planet from Pollstar and VenuesNow. Mohegan Solar Enviornment is persistently acknowledged among the many high 5 venues in the US, and in 2021 was named “Innovator of the Yr” by Celeb Entry for its ViacomCBS residency throughout the pandemic. Lately, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has additionally been named the “World’s Greatest On line casino Venue” by Better of Hartford Journal and is a seven-time nationwide award winner for “Enviornment of the Yr” by the Academy of Nation Music Awards and G2E Las Vegas. For extra info on live shows and different nice occasions, go to Mohegan Solar. For info on this week’s schedule, name the Leisure and Particular Occasions hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
About Hartbeat
Based by Kevin Hart, Hartbeat is the worldwide, multi-platform leisure firm creating content material and experiences on the intersection of comedy and tradition with a mission to maintain the world laughing collectively. Led by an award-winning group, Hartbeat is a beneficial associate to the largest leisure corporations, platforms, and types on this planet, driving cultural foreign money and producing gross sales, subscriptions, buzz, and dialog with a number of the most coveted audiences.
