The heat turns up a notch at Southorn Stadium, Wan Chai, this week as the second round of the Nike Summer Basketball League gets underway.
Last week, Team Foamposite, including some of the best teenage basketball players from the Tuen Mun area, proved they are serious contenders for the under-19 boys' title by winning all three of their first-round matches.
One more win from three games this week (they played their opener last night) should see them safely into next week's play-offs.
Their point guard is Hung Kin-leung, 18, who became the envy of his friends last summer, when visiting Toronto Raptors star Vince Carter named him the winner of a slam-dunk contest.
His prize was a pair of Carter's Nike trainers. But the Hong Kong junior squad member, who last season played for Second Division side On Pong, wasn't wearing the trainers in last week's games.
'I've got 10 pairs of basketball trainers at home, so I change them around. But that's nothing. I know people who have got over 20 pairs!' said Kin-leung.
The Form Five student from Hoh Fuk Tong College in Tuen Mun said the Foamposites had a great team spirit because they had known each other for so long.
