Bam Jam Boise 2008

This weekend brought with it the first annual Bam Jam Boise 3 0n 3 Basketball Tournament. This is a spin off of the Hoop Fest that takes place in Spokane, WA and is a fund raiser for the Boys and Girls Club Of Ada County, Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Southwest Idaho, The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, Idaho Select Basketball. They shut down a couple of streets in BoDo (Downtown Boise) both Friday night and all day Saturday for the event. The teams varied form kids under 12, women, co-ed, men under 6' ft. and then three other men's brackets. They had elite, competitive and recreational.

James asked three of his friends from Pocatello if they wanted to come over and play in the competitive league. After a disappointing loss on Friday night, they had to come back on Saturday and play 5 games in 6 1/2 hours. The games were 25 minutes long with only 1 time out per team. Our team consisted of Brandon Pieper, Chris Pieper and Ryan Zweigert. They started at 9:00 am and won each game on their way back until 3:00. It was their 3:00 game that was their second loss, leaving them to take third (out of 20 teams) in their bracket. At 2:00, they held a dunk competition. One of our players, Ryan wanted to enter, but they had a game at 2. As soon as the game was over, they headed down to see if he could still enter the contest. They begrudgingly let him enter telling him that he had better show some good dunks. They had already completed one round of dunks but still let him take take two dunks. I was still three blocks down as I was volunteering as a score keeper for another team and I could hear the crowd roar. I was so surprised to find out that they were cheering for Ryan as he won the contest at only 6'0" tall. They were so exhausted for their 3:00 game that I don't think they could have played another one if they had won. I was so excited to see how well they all did and especially to see Ryan win the dunk contest. Here are a few pictures from the event. Our Offense..... Ryan Zweigert & Chris Pieper Our Defense..... James Lambert & Brandon Pieper Our Slam Dunk Champion (With the windmill dunk)