Jamal Crawford technically hasn’t played basketball for a Seattle-based team since he graduated from Rainier Beach High School in 1999. But, over the course of a two-decade professional career, he emerged as perhaps the city’s chief hoops evangelist. Out of the NBA since 2020, Crawford, now 43, stays busy with family, broadcast work, and continuing to run Seattle’s long-standing pro-am summer basketball league. Under his guidance, it’s been renamed “The CrawsOver” and turned into a destination for basketball superstars like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant. ¶ The CrawsOver draws long lines every summer. Crawford thinks the city is ready for the return of the
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