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We are a partnership that operates collaboratively and…. Book Promt Charters and Tours. Destination Wedding and Honeymoon…. We serve all age kids in coaching, camps, and helping them develop. From Business: a shooting nylon strap to help basketball players shoot the basketball better forcing you to shoot with one hand. Two years ago, he was promoted to coordinator of community basketball. He began his new job by establishing Mavericks summer basketball camps and then expanded Mavericks youth outreach to include the program now at the Y.

After working with Tomlin, he offered the East Dallas Y — at no charge — two full scholarships to the summer camps. Lucas Gerken is growing up at the Y and with the Mavericks. He sleeps on Mavericks sheets and rests his head on Mavericks pillows. His bedroom is decorated with Mavericks wallpaper, and his family has had season tickets since long before he was born.

Lucas, a second-grader at Zion Lutheran School, has played Y basketball since pre-school, as well as t-ball and soccer. Last year, he sported jersey No. Gerken says basketball has been a way for his sons to make friends and for his family to meet other families. The Y has always had a good basketball league, Gerken says, but the connection with the Mavericks has strengthened the program. Rory still has his jersey from last year.

He and Lucas wear their jersey from last year. He and Lucas wear their jerseys to school and out on the town. Don't Miss Out. Join Today. Sign Up. I Support Learn More. Latest Stories.

More ». Sign Up Now No Thanks. He has lived through a run at the championship and the decline of a franchise.

He has withstood lousy draft picks and a year when the Mavericks nearly set the NBA record for futility. He has watched attendance at Reunion Arena dwindle year after humiliating year.

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