"Summer league and pro-am basketball are over, and with the NBA lockout prohibiting players from team training facilities for the usual pre-training camp workout sessions, they are looking for other options. So when local trainer Hanif Hill called Jeff Green last week to see if he would be interested in playing a charity game in the District featuring only NBA players, the Hyattsville native and former Georgetown star was eager to have a chance to stay sharp – and stay home.

"I was all in," Green said in a telephone interview on Sunday. "It gives us something to do as far as coming together, bringing the NBA to D.C. and continue the competition that we have with each other. Playing summer basketball, man. We love the sport, we love our job, and we just want to continue until things get solved.""