As we all enjoyed a day off from work and school to commemorate the great and late Martin Luther King, thousands of high school basketball fans fled to Portland State’s newly built Viking Pavilion for some high school basketball.
The main event of the MLK Holiday Invitational was none other than Rainier Beach from Seattle and Jefferson High School of Portland. Rainier Beach’s history of professional ball players is deep as the Vikings have heralded pros such as Jamal Crawford, Nate Robinson, and Dejounte Murray. This year the Vikings have five star junior MarJon Beauchamp as well as son of Shawn Kemp, Jamon Kemp.