Miami Heat player, Baltimore native visits city elementary school
Updated: 6:03 PM EDT Jun 5, 2025
NEWS AT SIX. ALL RIGHT. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. SO TONIGHT IS GAME ONE OF THE NBA FINALS. BUT ONE LOCAL BASKETBALL PLAYER DIDN’T FIND HIMSELF ON THE COURT. THE MIAMI HEAT’S HAYWOOD HIGHSMITH SPENT TIME AT A BALTIMORE SCHOOL. HIGHSMITH IS A BALTIMORE NATIVE. HE PAID A VISIT TO HARLEM PARK ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL IN WEST BALTIMORE. HE EVEN SHARED SOME TIPS TO THE SCHOOL’S BASKETBALL PLAYERS. HIGHSMITH’S MESSAGE THERE IS NO BASKETBALL WITHOUT GRADES. IF YOU GUYS GOT ASPIRATIONS OF PLAYING COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. YOU’RE TRYING TO GO PROFESSIONAL, WHICH IS VERY, VERY TOUGH. YOU GOT TO PUT THAT WORK IN. YOU GOT TO MAKE THAT YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. LIKE YOU GUYS GET HOME TODAY. YOU BORED SITTING SITTING ON YOUR WATCHING TV, SITTING ON YOUR –. DRIBBLE THE BALL. YOU KNOW, DO SOME FORM SHOOTING LIKE JUST WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE YOU GOT TO IF YOU REALLY WANT TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF GOOD ADVICE THERE, RIGHT? THE ORIOLES PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN MAKING THIS HAPPEN THROUGH THEIR ADOPT A SCHOOL PROGRAM. THAT PROGRAM AIMS TO GIVE BA
Miami Heat player, Baltimore native visits city elementary school
Updated: 6:03 PM EDT Jun 5, 2025
Baltimore City school students got a special visit Thursday morning from an NBA star. Miami Heat basketball player Haywood Highsmith, a Baltimore native, visited Harlem Park Elementary\Middle School in West Baltimore, where he shared some tips with the school’s basketball players.
BALTIMORE —
Baltimore City school students got a special visit Thursday morning from an NBA star. Miami Heat basketball player Haywood Highsmith, a Baltimore native, visited Harlem Park Elementary\Middle School in West Baltimore, where he shared some tips with the school’s basketball players.