Hoopfest

If you've found your way on to a basketball team or the Ironman course this weekend you're probably used to exerting yourself, but medical professionals are concerned about spectators who may not be ready for a full day in the heat.

Have you ever been to a large event and have had trouble sending a text, making a call or posting a selfie to Instagram? That's something cell companies are hoping to avoid this weekend at Hoopfest.

In it's 26th year making the Hoopfest brackets has come down to an exact science. Registration closed only a few weeks ago and since then volunteers and staff have spent countless hours fitting the brackets together like a puzzle.

Riverfront Park is slowly but surely transforming into ground zero for Hoopfest 2015, but without the many volunteers who pitch in every year the event simply couldn't happen.

Hoopfest is Spokane's signature weekend and it's also the biggest weekend of the year for all of the stations that are part of the KXLY Broadcast Group. TV, radio, the web and social media.

Triple digit temperatures won't keep the nation's largest three on three basketball tournament off the streets but it does have organizers and downtown businesses planning ahead.

Spokane Hoopfest 2015 is still a few days away, but you can have some fun with the event on Wednesday night by checking out some of the ridiculous and creative names of participating teams.

A new event at this year's Hoopfest will help cool down those 21 and over as Hopfest at Hoopfest will host a beer garden Friday while teams are practicing.

Don't expect last year's rainy Hoopfest to be anything like this year's event, with the forecast hitting the century mark and staying there by this weekend.

In two-and-a-half weeks tens of thousands of people will pack downtown Spokane for Hoopfest, the world's biggest three-on-three basketball tournament. After 25 years organizers are mostly sticking to the same game plan with a few exciting changes.

Hoopfest is just a few weeks away and the team is working make this year's event the most memorable one to date, but they can still use your help.

Volunteers hit basketball courts throughout the Spokane area tending to ailing rims and worn out nets. It's a Hoopfest tradition to put up brand new nets before the annual event.

Hoopfest is just a month and a half out, and the folks who put it on, could use a few more court monitors to pull the event off.

Hoopfest is going to be getting some serious attention this year, as ESPN has announced it will be broadcasting live from the event.

After the tragic loss of a husband and father a Spokane family has found a way to keep him alive in their hearts and in the community through basketball.

Spokane's AAU Basketball is wrapping up its 26th season as the premiere youth basketball league in our area and to highlight this great season, eighth grade boys and girls will play in the first ever all-star game this weekend.