Good Sports: Clovis West basketball players return from Nike showcase in China

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two Clovis West High School hoops players are backmost location aft an unforgettable travel to China, wherever they competed successful an elite Nike showcase and met NBA superstar LeBron James.

Melania "Lonnie" Warren and Ramey Chapman were invited to articulation apical players from crossed the state for the all-expenses-paid experience, which included games successful Shanghai and Chengdu.

"We started disconnected successful Shanghai with signifier and a game, past went to Chengdu wherever we played the aforesaid squad again successful a antithetic arena," Warren said. "Then we played Team Rise, which is LeBron's team."

The item came erstwhile James himself showed up to ticker them play.

"It was a star-struck moment," Chapman said. "We couldn't judge helium was really there."

The players said the travel was astir much than basketball. They soaked successful the culture, built friendships and gained assurance competing connected an planetary stage.

"It decidedly gives maine a batch of assurance that I tin play astatine aggregate levels with antithetic people," Warren said.

"I was truly blessed to person the accidental to spell to a antithetic state to play hoops and bash thing I love," Chapman added.

The squad battled pitchy lag successful their archetypal crippled but settled successful by the 2nd matchup, showing their quality to accommodate and execute nether pressure.

For Warren and Chapman, the acquisition was astir much than the scoreboard, it was astir growth, transportation and a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to stock the tribunal nether the watchful oculus of 1 of the game's top players.

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