One on one with Boston Celtics guard Derrick White

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Having grown up in Parker, Boston Celtics Guard Derrick White came back to his hometown where more than 400 kids took part in the 4th Annual Derrick White Basketball Academy.

“ is is where basketball began for me and where it all started,” said White. “So to have my own camp here to have - kids want to come to camp and have fun, it’s what it’s all about.”

White developed a series of camps with Nothing But Net - Elite Basketball Coaching, a local youth basketball development program run by Marcus Mason, previously a Division 1 coach.

Along with in-depth training, Mason spoke to the campers about the importance of keeping up academically.

“Make sure academics are in line rst, then you go to practice,” said Mason.

During his coaching career, Mason coached over 10 players who have played professional basketball, including White.

White is now NBA All-Defensive second-team with the Boston Celtics.

For four days, kids ages 6 to 10 came for three hours in the morning and kids 11 to 17 in the afternoon to the Parker Fieldhouse to work with quali ed coaches and high school, college and professional athletes.

“I hope they learn something and really just have fun,” said White.

Using the basketball courts, the hockey space and the soccer eld in the eldhouse, kids were split up into groups, each with a coach working on fundamentals.

On the soccer eld, campers were focused on speed and agility while running. In the hockey space, groups focused on defense, dribbling and passing while sportsmanship was being built as games were going on the basketball court. rough the Parker recreation program, Crystal Navarro registered her two sons, 8 and 6, to take part in the camp.

Navarro was thankful for the coaching sta and appreciates their experience and knowledge while her sons liked interacting with the sta .

“ e one on one time that they’re been able to do with Derrick White,” said Navarro. “ e rst hand advice.”

Campers had the opportunity to sit down with White in the new Chalk Talk with DWhite. As the Celtics provided game videos from the season, White walked through plays, talked about footwork and helped the campers get into the mind of the point guard. the camp is watching the kids having around you.” at included criminal justice measures that increased penalties but didn’t address the root causes of crime, she said. ere are 19 Republicans in the House. ree House Republicans voted “no” on 70% or more of the bills that became law: Reps. Stephanie Luck, of Penrose (74%); Scott Bottoms, of Colorado Springs (73%); and Ken DeGraaf, of Colorado Springs (71%). DeGraaf and Luck were prime sponsors of two House bills that became law. Bottoms cosponsored a Senate bill that became law — the “In God We Trust” license plate measure — but wasn’t the prime sponsor of any legislation that made it across the nish line. e other 16 House Republicans voted “yes” on 43% or more of the bills that became law.

DeGraaf said he voted against bills in a few categories: those that would expand government, those that he felt misrepresented what they would actually do and those that haven’t been “properly vetted.” He added that he was disappointed by how little impact debate seemed to make for a bill’s success or failure.

“Once a bill reaches the oor, it seems virtually guaranteed to pass,” he said.

First-year GOP Rep. Rick Taggart, of Grand Junction, voted “yes” on 73% of the bills that became law. House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, of Wellington, voted “yes” on nearly 65% of the bills.

Taggart said he was surprised to learn he was the Republican who had voted for the most bills that became law. He said he focused less on who was sponsoring the legislation he was voting on and instead on the policies themselves.

“My approach from day one was to work on bipartisan bills that were good, not only for my community here in Grand Junction, but good for the state,” he said.

Democrats and Republicans were more uni ed in their nal votes in the 35-member Senate, which gave unanimous approval to one-third of the bills considered in the chamber that became law.

All but two of the 12 Republicans in the Senate voted “yes” 52% of the time or more on the 474 bills that became law. And all 23 Democratic senators voted “yes” 97% of the time or more.

Sen. Kevin Van Winkle, of Highlands Ranch, voted “no” on 56% of the bills that became law, while Sen. Mark Baisley, of Woodland Park, voted “no” on 55%.

“I just disagree generally with the direction Colorado’s moving, the way we’re being led by Democrats,” Van Winkle told e Sun earlier this year in explaining why he votes “no” on so many bills.

Democratic Sens. Kevin Priola, of Henderson, and Dylan Roberts, of Avon, voted “no” on only 14 of the bills that became law, but that was enough to make them the least likely to support measures clearing the chamber this year.

Priola switched his party a liation to Democratic from Republican in August. He previously was often the lone Republican “yes” vote on Democratic bills that became law. is year, he voted in favor of 97% of bills that became law, compared with 87% last year.

Priola said some of that can be chalked up to the natural di erences between each session. He added that now that he’s part of the Democratic caucus, he has changed the way he votes.

“ is year, those tweener bills that no one was upset about either way — that I didn’t think were bad policies but I wasn’t in love with them either — being in the other caucus I gave them the bene t of the doubt,” he said. “I’m going to support my caucus.” is story via e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver that covers the state. For more, visit www.ColoradoSun.com. e Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, which owns Colorado Community Media.

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