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About the Summer Tour
Kia Motors is the proud partner of the 2011 Kia Motors make it better Statewide Summer Tour. The tour is inspired by the organization's early history, when Trail Blazers voice Bill Schonely would drive city to city to visit affiliates and help market the organization throughout the region. This summer, a group of Portland Trail Blazers representatives will hit the road for the fourth consecutive year to host youth basketball clinics, visit broadcast affiliates and meet Trail Blazers fans throughout the state. Check back here throughout the summer for updates and photos.
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Summer Tour News
For the fourth straight summer, representatives from the Portland Trail Blazers - including broadcaster/alum Antonio Harvey, assistant coach Kaleb Canales and ambassador Dale Schleuter - embark on a road trip in Kia Sorentos and head out of town to meet Trail Blazers fans and host youth basketball clinics in Medford and Eugene.
The make it better summer hoops coaches piled into two new Kia Sorentos and ventured up I-5 for the only Washington stop on the 2011 Kia Motors Presents Statewide Summer Tour, at Ridgefield High School.
The Trail Blazers tipped off the 2011 Statewide Summer Tour, presented by Kia Motors, on the first Thursday in July at the Police Activities League Gym in northeast Portland. More than 50 eager young hoopers learned Blazers basketball from the make it better hoops coaches, led by Todd Bosma.
A group of Portland Trail Blazers representatives will hit the road for the fourth consecutive summer to host youth basketball clinics, visit broadcast affiliates and meet Trail Blazers fans throughout the state during the 2011 Kia Motors make it better Statewide Summer Tour.
