Trae Young announces Oklahoma City basketball partnership

Courts 2 and 3 at the Santa Fe Family Life Center in Oklahoma City have new red and black "TY" logos at midcourt, highlighting a new partnership with Atlanta Hawks rookie and former Sooner star Trae Young. 

The Santa Fe Family Life Center, located off Broadway Extension and NE 63rd St., will serve as the home for the Trae Young Elite Youth Basketball Program. 

“There’s so many kids out there that go through a lot of things throughout the day,” Young said. “For them to be able to come here, play games, be on a team, and to have a facility where they can come hoop is awesome.” 

Young will sponsor two basketball camps and one basketball tournament per year under the partnership. 

Trae Young Elite AAU teams will use the courts for practices and games, as they did Monday night. Young, in conjunction with Adidas, will sponsor seven boys teams and four girls teams. 

“I look forward to watching you win championships,” Young told a group of boys wearing jerseys with his name on the front. 

The Norman native is back home for the All-Star break after competing in the NBA Skills Challenge and Rising Stars Challenge over the weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Young scored 25 points with 10 assists and seven rebounds in the Rising Stars Challenge and lost via a Jayson Tatum buzzer beater in the Skills Challenge. 

Young, after averaging 27.4 points and 8.7 assists last season at Oklahoma, was the fifth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. He's started every game for the Hawks, averaging 16.9 points, 7.6 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game. 

After going court-to-court to meet his newly-sponsored teams, Young walked upstairs where he found a seat to himself overlooking the action. 

“As soon as I got drafted,” Young said, “I was thinking about things I could do for my community — not only for the city of Atlanta, but the place I grew up playing basketball.”