Greater Lansing Community News
Moneyball Pro-Am has become a sports-going staple in Lansing
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LANSING, Mich.—Pro-Am is a mashup of the words professional and amateur. It’s an event in which both professional and amateur athletes compete against and alongside one another. Desmond Ferguson, owner and founder of Moneyball Sportswear, started with a vision for an event to showcase local basketball talent and to bring together the city of Lansing. Ferguson played forward at Everett High School in Lansing, then went on to play basketball at Missouri and Detroit Mercy before a brief stint in the NBA and internationally as a professional until 2011, when he retired from the Premier Basketball League in Canada. After playing at the St.