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He was 17 when he died. Now the top NC prep basketball players honor him with a game. | News & Observer

Kanayo Obi-Rapu Jr. couldn’t have imagined his high school senior project would turn into this.

Obi-Rapu, who is from Greensboro and plays basketball at East Tennessee State, was looking for a way to honor his good friend Josh Level, who died in 2013 while playing basketball from myocarditis, a viral infection that attacks the heart muscle. He was 17.

Obi-Rapu and Level both played at High Point's Westchester Country Day and New Garden Friends School in Greensboro.

As a way to honor his friend, Obi-Rapu in 2014 put on an all-star basketball game in Greensboro for his high school senior project.