When Danny Green, his business partner Darren Duncan, and the NBPA were brainstorming the perfect location for a high school basketball tournament created to honor competitive stakes and the last glimmers of teenagedom, only one place came to mind: the mall.
Not just any mall, but American Dream, a 3,000,000 square foot monster of a compound in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It houses a year-round waterpark, indoor ski slope, NHL-sized ice rink, an aquarium, multiple theme parks, some 350-odd retail shops and, since 2023, an annual basketball tournament that is getting bigger by the year.
Green and Duncan have put on many events since the two founded Gold Level Sporting Events
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