To the outside world, it looks like pickup basketball games, men on this court, women on that court, makeshift uniforms for the most part, but there’s an unmistakably solemn approach to the annual Labor Day Alumni Basketball Tournament at Panaewa that tells you it is something more than what it seems.
For the ninth consecutive year, basketball players from Hawaii schools — those with no more college eligibility — heard the call and came back for more.
It feels more like a gathering of the tribes than it does some pickup basketball event, when you see dozens of players and families converging for a renewal of the late summer tradition.