Team Hollywood brings superheroes to town

March 1, 2023

Marc Lutz/Wrangell Sentinel

Boomchain Loucks, right, takes part in a skit with Team Hollywood Feb. 21 in the high school gym.

The lights dimmed and a hush fell over the packed Wrangell High gymnasium, where the school had gathered to watch Team Hollywood celebrity streetball perform on Feb. 21.

Orchestral music filled the room as a spotlight illuminated a masked figure, hanging upside down from a basketball hoop. Batman, or Tommy Adams, formerly of the NBA summer league, dropped to the floor while Black Panther, or football player and Disney actor Maurice "Mo" Woodward, climbed down a rope suspended from the balcony. The pair circled each other, sizing each other up, before engaging in an intricately choreographed...

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