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2026 marks the 60th anniversary of Five-Star Basketball Camp. And we’re celebrating all year long. Stories you’ve never heard, plus product drops you’ll want to get your hands on. 👀🔥

But first… we’re going back to the very beginning.

Before the orange and white.
Before the Five-Star name.
Before the legend.

The first camp (1966) wasn’t called Five-Star at all. It was the Camp Orin-Sekwa Basketball School, held in Niverville, New York (18 miles southeast of Albany).

Co-founders Howard Garfinkel and Will Klein -- along with their third partner at the time, Roy Rubin -- pulled up to the campground with six high school coaches and a simple, powerful idea: Get kids out of the city. Play real, competitive hoops for a week. Have some “fun in the sun.” ☀️🏀

Then reality hit.

As summer approached, Garf had only 25 kids registered. Panic. The unthinkable: cancel the camp before it even started. Until July… when an oversized manila envelope arrived, postmarked Fairlawn, NJ. Inside? 24 registrations + checks to cover tuition, all wrangled together by Hubie Brown, then the head coach at Fair Lawn H.S., and one of the six Original Camp Counselors.

And here’s the twist: the camp’s first lecturer wasn’t even the original speaker. Duke coach Vic Bubas couldn’t make it… so he sent a newly hired assistant from Punxsutawney High School in Pennsylvania. That assistant?

Chuck Daly.
Future back-to-back NBA champion with the Bad Boy Pistons.
Future coach of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team.
Yeah. That Chuck Daly.

The rest, as they say, is history.

To kick off the 60th, we’re honoring Orin-Sekwa the right way, using drone footage of the present-day court + photo matching, we commissioned Rim and The Rock to recreate the original backboards from 1966.

This is the story before the story.
And we’re just getting started. ⛺️🏀✨

📹: .hldn .us

2026 marks the 60th anniversary of Five-Star Basketball Camp. And we’re celebrating all year long. Stories you’ve never heard, plus product drops you’ll want to get your hands on. 👀🔥

But first… we’re going back to the very beginning.

Before the orange and white.
Before the Five-Star name.
Before the legend.

The first camp (1966) wasn’t called Five-Star at all. It was the Camp Orin-Sekwa Basketball School, held in Niverville, New York (18 miles southeast of Albany).

Co-founders Howard Garfinkel and Will Klein — along with their third partner at the time, Roy Rubin — pulled up to the campground with six high school coaches and a simple, powerful idea: Get kids out of the city. Play real, competitive hoops for a week. Have some “fun in the sun.” ☀️🏀

Then reality hit.

As summer approached, Garf had only 25 kids registered. Panic. The unthinkable: cancel the camp before it even started. Until July… when an oversized manila envelope arrived, postmarked Fairlawn, NJ. Inside? 24 registrations + checks to cover tuition, all wrangled together by Hubie Brown, then the head coach at Fair Lawn H.S., and one of the six Original Camp Counselors.

And here’s the twist: the camp’s first lecturer wasn’t even the original speaker. Duke coach Vic Bubas couldn’t make it… so he sent a newly hired assistant from Punxsutawney High School in Pennsylvania. That assistant?

Chuck Daly.
Future back-to-back NBA champion with the Bad Boy Pistons.
Future coach of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team.
Yeah. That Chuck Daly.

The rest, as they say, is history.

To kick off the 60th, we’re honoring Orin-Sekwa the right way, using drone footage of the present-day court + photo matching, we commissioned Rim and The Rock to recreate the original backboards from 1966.

This is the story before the story.
And we’re just getting started. ⛺️🏀✨

📹: .hldn .us

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The 2024 x NYC Basketball Camp was an incredible success! ✅🏀🏆

We had 4 inspiring days of basketball development, highlighted by special guest appearances from NBPA members Bobby Portis Jr., Isaiah Hartenstein, and Nic Claxton. Former pros Wilson Chandler, Smush Parker, and Kevin Martin also joined us to drop some gems!

A huge thank you to our campers, coaches, and parents for an unforgettable camp!

We want to give a big shoutout to our amazing sponsors: for providing the uniforms, for delivering invaluable financial literacy sessions, for the fantastic 2K lounge, and for ensuring our young players stay healthy on and off the court.

Special thanks to and !

We can’t wait to do it all over again next year!