Rapper Snoop Dogg Shoots Hoops For Charity

January 13, 2009 11:48 a.m. EST

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Rapper Snoop Dogg will be joining fellow musicians, actors and sports stars on Saturday, January 17 to shoot hoops and raise money for The Stepping Stone, a new youth center located in Compton. The center helps kids to learn sports, arts and receive academic tutoring.

Snoop Dogg will compete in the star-studded charity basketball game along with Warren G, Lil Eazy, Allen Payne ("House of Payne"), Arlen Escarpeta ("American Dreams"), Brian McKnight, Los Angeles Sparks coach Michael Cooper, two-time NBA All-Star Champion and former Los Angeles Laker Norman Nixon, WNBA Champion and All-Star Game MVP Los Angeles Sparks Center Lisa Leslie, and former NBA players Khalid Reeves (Chicago Bulls Guard), Pooh Richardson (Los Angeles Clippers Point Guard), and Byron Russell (Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets Shooting Guard).

The event is being hosted by Zion Baptist Evangelistic Temple and PreachBoy Ministries with all of the proceeds going to help finish the construction on the center that is scheduled to open in the spring.

The game will be held at 4 p.m. at Compton High School and tickets are only $10. For more information or to get tickets to the game, call (877) 689-7717.