The next step for Aalim Moor III

(Five years and counting Moor has been a loyal and proud employee of the Warriors)

Yes, for five consecutive summers, Aalim Moor III has worked the summer basketball camps sponsored by the Golden State Warriors organization. He first began after graduating from St. Mary's College High in Albany and was to begin at San Jose State University (SJSU) on a basketball scholarship.

The Warriors, a professional basketball entity ensconced in Oakland, have longtime roots there, as does Moor, and involvement with the fan base is an important aspect of their corporate business model.

So how did this connection come about?

Jeff Adiego is the Director of Youth Basketball for the Golden State Warriors and also a St. Mary's College High alumnus. Let's have Moor take it from here: "The summer going into my freshman year at SJSU, he reached out and asked if I wanted a summer job to make some money. I agreed, hence my beginning with the Golden State Warriors Summer Camps. Since that time, Jeff really has been extremely helpful with everything regarding the Warriors."

Each go-around for Moor has resulted in greater exposure and added responsibilities because of his hard work and determination.

"The Warriors are such a first-class organization and how honored I am to be working within that organization, Moor explained. "Growing up, I went to camps where professional NBA players ran them and I would be so enamored by them because of their status and fame and now I get to be on the other end working with one of the premier players in the world and giving back. It's a double blessing." 

He's referencing when Warrior shooting guard Stephon Curry recently held his own basketball camp at Pebble Beach's Stevenson School in late August. Moor was handpicked to work it.

"I was chosen by Jeff Adiego to work the Steph Curry camp. It was a process by which all the summer camp coaches were told that if we worked hard, showed leadership, and proved to the directors of the youth camps that we deserve to be there, we would be selected."

 (Moor and Steph Curry relaxing at the latter's camp)

Moor taught drills and coached, similar to his work with the Warriors. Both with the Warriors and this were a way for Moor to give back in a manner replicating the many others who have helped him in his life journey to the present.

 (The camp coaches with Steph and Dell Curry in the middle)

Moor's impression of Curry?

"He's very personable, very sociable and down-to-earth. Unlike what happens at a lot of other camps, he was at the camp the whole time."

For some background, Jacob Bourne reviews Curry's camp.

Come late January, Moor will begin a Master's Degree program in Counseling at San Jose State University. It will contain a concentration on Corporate Counseling.

The why behind that? "I think it will help open different doors for me."