Usually a player will attend the camp of the shoe company that sponsors his high school or summer-league team. Love's high school team, Lake Oswego, also is sponsored by Nike.
But it is not unheard of for players to cross company lines.
Canaan Chatman, director of the Adidas-backed Inner City Players team in Portland, said two of his former players Chris Rodgers and Brandon Lincoln chose to attend Nike's camp four years ago because they had not been there before.
"My bosses were a little bit perturbed with the situation, with me sending them to Nike camp versus Adidas," Chatman said. "But the reality was I just communicated why these kids went there: This was something that they wanted to do."
Chris Rivers, Reebok's national grass-roots basketball manager, said he knew of a few players on Reebok-sponsored teams who went to Nike's camp.
"But I called those kids the day after, wished them well," Rivers said.
Seth Tarver, one of Love's summer teammates, also attended Reebok's camp this month but was not kicked off the Legends team. Tarver, who plays high school ball for Beaverton's Jesuit High, said he thought he kept his spot because he had accepted Reebok's invitation before he was invited to Nike's camp and because he recently left a Reebok-sponsored team to join the Legends.
To read the complete story
click here.
