{"id":30056,"date":"2017-08-23T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/swoop-to-the-hoop\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:19:40","slug":"swoop-to-the-hoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/swoop-to-the-hoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Swoop to the hoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of players converged on Emerald Downs last Saturday for the Marsh Classic 3-on-3 basketball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>About 240 teams competed in more than 25 divisions &#8211; from second-graders to adult categories &#8211; during the two-day event.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, one of the largest of its kind in the state, was open to boys and girls, men and women, of all ages and skill levels.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is named after Marsh, a former USC and NBA player, who is a community leader. Marsh has coached and mentored thousands of youth through basketball and in his work as a high school select and college-level basketball coach. He is the director of Jammin&rsquo; Hoop Camps and has served as president of Mentoring Works Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Marsh is also a champion for Parkinson&rsquo;s awareness, as he is living with the disease, and is involved in the efforts of the Northwest Parkinson&rsquo;s Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The classic was created to raise awareness and funds for statewide mentoring of youth and for Parkinson&rsquo;s research.<\/p>\n<p>For full results, go <a href=\"https:\/\/kevinn0.wixsite.com\/jimmarshclassic\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun comes out for Jim Marsh Classic | PHOTOS <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":30062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}