When students arrived for school on Friday, it seemed just like another day at Ballou High School in southeast Washington D.C. But a little around Noon, faculty members started directing students to the school's gym. Students did not exactly know why, but there was clearly something lacking in communication.
Around 12:30 P.M., head coach Scott Brooks and the Washington Wizards pulled up at Ballou and took over the school's court. The Wizards went through an abridged practice, building off of their first three days of training camp.
Players like Bradley Beal, John Wall, and Isaiah Thomas talked to the students intermittently, joking around with them.