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Message: [QUOTE="Jimbo, post: 4029349, member: 6751"] Man, I [I]loved[/I] those Calhoun celebrity games. I believe they finally decided to call it quits (even pre-Covid) and stick to golf, but the basketball games were held at Mohegan Sun every two years between 2002 and 2018—I made it to all of them except one. They usually got fantastic participation from the old players, even guys who were making big NBA money at the time. As you can see from some very brief highlights here, the last version of the game had some of Geno's alums participating as well: [MEDIA=youtube]naQkEflAdZY[/MEDIA] I mean, Svet played in that game, and heaven knows how far she had to come to do that. [ATTACH type="full" width="325px" alt="1628720696255.png"]69122[/ATTACH] Actually this is even better, from the 2016 version: [ATTACH type="full" width="516px" alt="1628720976757.png"]69123[/ATTACH] What I don't recall, and this goes to your point about scheduling, is seeing any of Geno's players there who hadn't already retired. The year-round schedule for women's basketball might make a similar Auriemma alumnae charity game too difficult to pull off. But I'm with you, I would absolutely pay to see a game like that. [/QUOTE]