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Jabari Parker

The Chicago United Hoops Classic is a local high-school all-star basketball game aimed at silencing the violence that plagues the city's streets. (Courtesy NBC Chicago)

Chicago high school all-star game aims to end violence

Bryan Crawford, NBC Chicago
NBC Chicago - On Saturday, some of the areas best high school basketball players from the South and West sides of town competed in the Chicago United Hoops Classic at the Gerald E. Ratner Center on the University of Chicago campus, in an event aimed at bringing awareness and hopefully an end to all of the senseless acts of street violence that occur all too often.
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Jabari Parker answers questions from reporters at Jordan Brand Classic practice in New York City on Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Video still/Hassan Washington, theGrio.com)

Basketball star wants to 'represent' black males in college

Todd Johnson
theGRIO REPORT - A few minutes talking to Chicago high school basketball star Jabari Parker is refreshingly informative, reflective and positive. He is an 18-year-old going on 25...
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This April 12, 2012 file photo shows Simeon Career Academy's Jabari Parker, right, talking with NBA great Alonzo Mourning after Mourning surprised Parker with the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year award, in Chicago. The prized prospect is to announce his college choice at a news conference at his high school, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

theGrio's 100: Jabari Parker, high school phenom plays with purpose

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theGRIO'S 100 - Jabari Parker has already been named Gatorade's National Boys Basketball Player of the Year and won three state titles for Chicago's Simeon Career Academy. And he's only a junior...
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This April 12, 2012 file photo shows Simeon Career Academy's Jabari Parker, right, talking with NBA great Alonzo Mourning after Mourning surprised Parker with the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year award, in Chicago. The prized prospect is to announce his college choice at a news conference at his high school, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Top NBA prospect Jabari Parker chooses Duke

Andrew Seligman, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - Jabari Parker still had just about everyone guessing. Then, he pulled out that blue T-shirt with a white 'D,' and, finally, it became clear...
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Prep hoops star Jabari Parker names 10 college choices

Beth Harris, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Basketball star Jabari Parker has named the 10 college programs he is considering with a year to go before he graduates from high school, and DePaul in his hometown of Chicago made the cut...
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High school basketball star called 'best since LeBron'

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Chicago's Simeon high school junior basketball player Jabari Parker has high expectations...
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Teen hoops star in spotlight leans on family, God

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CHICAGO (AP) - This is what it's like to be Jabari Parker, the nation's top high school basketball player.
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