Sunday morning saw the completion to this year's 2008 Reebok Breakout Underclass Camp held in Chicago, Illinois (June 20-22).

Arizona's John Bailey was among the camp's top 20 players.

With five spots available for the top campers from this year's event, Tournament Director Chris Rivers organized an exciting competitive playoff match for the players to compete and earn an invite to the prestigous Reebok U All-American Camp held in Philadelphia, PA (July 5-10). Never before has there been a playoff match organized such as this one, where camp participants desiring to earn a camp invitation simply compete against one another for the right to earn their place in Reebok U (formerly known as ABCD Camp).

Throughout the many years of the camp's existence, Rivers has been flooded daily with phone calls, emails and gestures by high school and AAU/club coaches, as well as parents and players themselves to receive an invitation to the annual camp. This year's playoff format created by Rivers and the Reebok Breakout Camp staff created loads of excitement by both the campers involved, as well as the scouts and fans in attendance witnessing the action.

With all 105 of the campers seated at center court, Rivers called out the top 20 prospects from this year's camp (selected by the Reebok Breakout camp staff). With each name called out, the players were divided amongst two teams to compete against one another in a 25-minute game format. With the game set and the players divided, the only thing left was to determine who would be receiving their invitation to play in Reebok U in July.

Players selected to compete in the exciting playoff game were as follows: Perry Ellis 6-8 JR W. Chita, KS; Nino Williams 6-6 SOPH Lansing, KS; George Marshall 5-11 SOPH Chicago, IL; Kyan Anderson 5-11 SOPH Fort Worth, TX; Phillip Taylor 6-0 JR Marietta, GA; Denzel Brito 6-2 JR Wareham, MA; Lenzelle Smith Jr. 6-4 JR Zion, IL; Andre Henley 6-5 SOPH Chicago, IL; Rashad Perkins 6-6 JR Starksville, MS; John Bailey 6-8 JR Mesa, AZ; Jalen Courtney 6-8 JR Madison, MS; Chris Coleman 6-9 SOPH Buffalo, NY; Admir Sahbegovic 6-8 JR Jacksonville, FL; Cole Dickerson 6-7 JR Seattle, WA; Blake Mclimans 6-10 SR Orchard Park, NY; Jordan Treloff 6-10 JR Dekarh, IL; Dre Evans 5-10 JR Dallas, TX; Stephen Holt 6-3 JR Beaverton, OR; George Fant 6-6 SOPH Bowling Green, KY; Marvin Jordan 6-0 JR Peoria, IL.

	Campers competed hard for an invitation to this year's Reebok U.

With the players each competing at a high level for the right to earn their respective camp invites, players gasped for air and pushed themselves throughout the game, as each camper looked exhausted from the weekend's action.

AAU coaches for a few of the campers involved in the game stood by on the sidelines shouting out there desired opinions to Reebok camp coaches on the opposite side of the floor, hoping gain an advantage for their respective players.

Mark Irvin of Mac Irvin's Fire, a local-based AAU/club team in the Chicago area, stood out among the crowd of onlookers, attempting to gain favor for his star performer, Andre Henley. While Henley had definitely been a top performer throughout the weekend's camp, his play was superb in the playoff match-up, as he connected on several contested three-point bombs and scored on dribble drives to the basket.

At the completion of the game, the Reebok coaches and staff organized one last time to collect their thoughts and deliberate about their proposed selections for the camp invites to Reebok U.

As Rivers, once again, spoke to the large group of campers in attendance, this time he announced this year's camp invitees, but not before addressing one camper in particular. While Andre Henley would become one of the selected participants to gain an invitation to this year's Reebok U, Rivers addressed his displease with Henley's attitude throughout the camp, as well as his lack of defensive effort.

It was a pleasant surprise to see Rivers call out the camper in front of his peers, especially in a basketball world today where kids and parents often feel a sense of entitlement for being a top basketball prospect. Rivers clearly sent the message to everyone involved in this year's camp that such behavior would no longer be tolerated. NO MORE.

This year's camp was a tremendous opportunity for those involved to develop an understanding for the hard work involved in becoming a player, and an even better understanding about the limited amount of opportunity there is available to those desiring to be the best. Each of the players selected for this year's invitations to Reebok U earned them through sheer hard work, effort and a willingness to compete at a high level.

While we began with five invites to this year's camp, 8 campers finally emerged from the field. Here are this year's selections from the 2008 Reebok Breakout Underclass Camp that will move on to the ultra-talented field of players at this year's Reebok U . . .

2008 Reebok U All-American Camp Invitees
Perry Ellis 6-8 FR 2012 W. Chita, KS
Kyan Anderson 5-11 SOPH 2011 Fort Worth, TX
*Rashad Perkins 6-6 JR 2010 Starksville, MS
Lenzelle Smith 6-4 JR 2010 Zion, IL
Jalen Courtney 6-8 JR 2010 Madison, MS
Chris Coleman 6-9 SOPH 2011 Buffalo, NY
*Denzel Brito 6-2 JR 2010 Wareham, MA
Andre Henley 6-5 SOPH 2011 Chicago, IL

*Teammates

Congratulations to each of this year's recipients of invitations to Reebok U, but also we would like to thank each of the campers that participated and helped in making this year's 5th annual camp another tremendous success!