– Morgan Stanley’s World Sports activities & Leisure Division will Return to Host Monetary Schooling Programming Onsite Throughout Hoophall Traditional in 2025 and 2026 –
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – The Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame and LEARFIELD have introduced that Morgan Stanley World Sports activities & Leisure (GSE) will return as the celebrated Military Nationwide Guard Hoophall Traditional introduced by Spalding, highschool showcase’s Monetary Schooling Sponsor via 2026. Morgan Stanley GSE will proceed to develop and current tailor-made monetary education schemes, instruments, and assets for a few of the nation’s high prep basketball student-athletes whereas main in-person programming for every year’s members in Springfield, Massachusetts, on choose days all through the occasion.
“We’re proud to proceed our partnership with Morgan Stanley World Sports activities & Leisure for each Hoophall Traditional via 2026,” mentioned John L. Doleva, President and CEO of the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame. “On the Corridor of Fame, we’re dedicated to enriching the Hoophall expertise for the following technology of basketball expertise. Our collaboration with Morgan Stanley extends past the sport, specializing in equipping younger athletes with important life expertise. In an period the place monetary literacy is important, we attempt to supply these future stars with the instruments and data they should navigate their careers with confidence and success.”
Morgan Stanley GSE returns because the Hoophall Traditional’s Monetary Schooling Sponsor for the third consecutive yr. Moreover, the main monetary companies agency will once more honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the Basketball Corridor of Fame, paying tribute to his life and legacy throughout all 5 nationally televised (ESPN) Hoophall Traditional video games on Monday, January 20.
“We’re happy to proceed our sponsorship of the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame’s famend Hoophall Traditional as its Monetary Schooling Sponsor since 2023, constructing on our tutelage of a few of America’s finest younger basketball expertise over the previous couple of years,” mentioned Sandra L. Richards, Head of Morgan Stanley World Sports activities & Leisure and Phase Gross sales & Engagement. “The classes and candid conversations that now we have had the pleasure of internet hosting with the following technology of basketball expertise in Springfield are important components of aiding them every year towards empowered and sound monetary selections that we belief will serve foundational to their success, each on and off the basketball courtroom for a few years to return.”
This yr will mark the twenty third yr of the Hoophall Traditional. This occasion will function 33 video games performed over 5 days all through Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekend at Springfield Faculty in Springfield, Massachusetts. This yr’s star-studded discipline, which boasts groups from 18 states and Washington, D.C., will function 45 whole gamers in ESPN’s High 100 from the Class of 2025 (33 boys and 10 ladies), together with eight of the boy’s high 10 ranked gamers. Moreover, each the No. 1 ranked boys recruits within the 2025 (AJ Dybantsa) and 2026 (Tyran Stokes) lessons are scheduled to take part.
Since 2015, 63 Hoophall Traditional members have gone on to play within the NBA, together with Jaylen Brown (2015), Jamal Murray (2015), Bam Adebayo (2016), Jayson Tatum (2016), Zion Williamson (2018), Cade Cunningham (2020), and Reed Sheppard (2023). NBA superstars Kevin Durant (2006), Kyrie Irving (2010), Anthony Davis (2011), and Karl-Anthony Cities (2014) have additionally participated within the occasion. For a whole record of alumni, please go tohoophall.com/occasions/spalding-hoophall-classic/alumni/.
Morgan Stanley World Sports activities & Leisure is a division of Morgan Stanley Wealth Administration devoted to serving the distinctive and complex wants of elite {and professional} athletes, entertainers, executives, creators, and different high professionals within the enterprise of sports activities and leisure. The division consists of over 300 Monetary Advisors who’re World Sports activities and Leisure Administrators, World Sports activities and Leisure Affiliate Administrators and/or NFLPA Registered Institutional Participant Monetary Advisors; a number of of whom are former skilled and collegiate athletes. January 2025 marks the eleventh yr of the Morgan Stanley World Sports activities & Leisure division’s enterprise. For extra data, please go towww.morganstanley.com/gse.
LEARFIELD is devoted to representing the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame by creating and managing sponsor relationships with manufacturers seeking to align with Basketball Corridor of Fame occasions and applications.
In regards to the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame
Positioned in Springfield, Massachusetts, the town the place basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame is an unbiased non-profit 501(c)(3) group devoted to selling, preserving, and celebrating the sport of basketball at each degree—women and men, newbie {and professional} gamers, coaches, and contributors—each domestically and internationally. The Corridor of Fame museum is house to greater than 475 inductees and over 40,000 sq. toes of basketball historical past. Practically 200,000 individuals go to the Corridor of Fame museum every year to be taught in regards to the sport, expertise the interactive reveals, and take a look at their expertise on the Jerry Colangelo “Courtroom of Desires.” Finest 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 data on the Basketball Corridor of Fame group, its museum, and occasions, go to hoophall.com and comply with @hoophall.
About Morgan Stanley Wealth Administration
Morgan Stanley Wealth Administration, a worldwide chief, supplies entry to a variety of services and products to people, companies, and establishments, together with brokerage and funding advisory companies, monetary and wealth planning, money administration and lending services and products, annuities and insurance coverage, retirement, and belief companies.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a number one international monetary companies agency offering a variety of funding banking, securities, wealth administration, and funding administration companies. With workplaces in 41 international locations, the Agency’s staff serve purchasers worldwide together with firms, governments, establishments, and people. For extra details about Morgan Stanley, go towww.morganstanley.com.
