– Morgan Stanley’s International Sports activities & Leisure Division will Return to Host Monetary Training Programming Onsite Throughout Hoophall Traditional in 2025 and 2026 –
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – The Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame and LEARFIELD have introduced that Morgan Stanley International Sports activities & Leisure (GSE) will return as the distinguished Military Nationwide Guard Hoophall Traditional introduced by Spalding, highschool showcase’s Monetary Training Sponsor via 2026. Morgan Stanley GSE will proceed to develop and current tailor-made monetary teaching programs, instruments, and sources for a few of the nation’s high prep basketball student-athletes whereas main in-person programming for every year’s contributors in Springfield, Massachusetts, on choose days all through the occasion.
“We’re proud to proceed our partnership with Morgan Stanley International Sports activities & Leisure for each Hoophall Traditional via 2026,” stated 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 subsequent 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 crucial, we attempt to supply these future stars with the instruments and information they should navigate their careers with confidence and success.”
Morgan Stanley GSE returns because the Hoophall Traditional’s Monetary Training Sponsor for the third consecutive 12 months. 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 Training Sponsor since 2023, constructing on our tutelage of a few of America’s greatest younger basketball expertise over the previous couple of years,” stated Sandra L. Richards, Head of Morgan Stanley International Sports activities & Leisure and Section Gross sales & Engagement. “The periods and candid conversations that we’ve had the pleasure of internet hosting with the subsequent technology of basketball expertise in Springfield are important parts 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 court docket for a few years to come back.”
This 12 months will mark the twenty third 12 months 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 12 months’s star-studded area, 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 women), 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) courses are scheduled to take part.
Since 2015, 63 Hoophall Traditional contributors 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 an entire listing of alumni, please go tohoophall.com/occasions/spalding-hoophall-classic/alumni/.
Morgan Stanley International 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 International Sports activities and Leisure Administrators, International 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 12 months of the Morgan Stanley International 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.
Concerning the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame
Situated in Springfield, Massachusetts, 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 stage—women and men, beginner {and professional} gamers, coaches, and contributors—each domestically and internationally. The Corridor of Fame museum is dwelling 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 study concerning the recreation, expertise the interactive reveals, and check their expertise on the Jerry Colangelo “Court docket of Desires.” 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 data on the Basketball Corridor of Fame group, its museum, and occasions, go to hoophall.com and observe @hoophall.
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