The Slingers Family Entertainment group on Friday donated $100,000 to the newly-founded Royals Basketball Club of New Amsterdam.
President of the club, Gladwin Albert, said that he was extremely grateful for the assistance of the entertainment group and the club would now be known as the ‘Slingers Royals’.
Representative of Slingers Entertainment, Shermon D’anrade, popularly known on the entertainment scene as ‘DJ Gringo’ said that the group was glad to give basketball in New Amsterdam a much-needed boost.
“We agreed to sponsor the club because we would like to help revitalize basketball in New Amsterdam and provide recreation for the youths in the community during the afternoons,” the Slingers’ disc jockey said.
Albert said that the club began about a month-and-a-half ago and had already gotten positive responses from the community.
He added that the executives of the club have been working relentlessly to spread word of the club’s advent in the community.
“We were now trying to get the word around in the community and now that we have managed to secure sponsorship, it helps with our credibility and makes players more interested in joining,” he said.
Albert said that the club has 14 players so far and said the club was confident of expanding quickly.
