- Finally tonight, it's not every day your summer camp coach is someone fresh off an NBA court.

But for a group of kids in Camden, that's just another Thursday.

As coaches from the Philadelphia 76ers return to the Camden Kroc Center for a hands-on basketball camp, where it was all about sweat, smiles, and inspiration.

Ted Goldberg dropped by to check out what kind of lessons these campers are learning.

Hey Ted, it sounds like it was a fun day for these kids.

What did you see?

- Brianna, the 76ers have taken over the Kroc Center's day camp here in Camden.

Sixers assistant coaches are running drills with these kids, making sure they're having a good time in summer while still learning some valuable basketball skills.

- We know that sports builds discipline, builds commitment.

- Two, three.

(kids cheering) - And as you can hear, sports also builds excitement.

About 100 kids from the Camden area spent their morning with Sixers coaches and staffers.

While one of the campers went home with Sixers AirPods after nailing this shot, (kids cheering) nobody walked away empty-handed with souvenirs and great memories for everybody.

How much fun have you been having so far?

- Probably so much fun.

- This is pretty fun so far, just the experience.

- It's an exciting feeling.

- What's your favorite part about them coming?

- The band, the exercises, all that.

(drumming) - Richard Sanchez works here at the Kroc Center and says the Sixers organization is just one important piece of the summer camp here.

- While they're off from school during the summertime, they're here and they're just building their skills with our Salvation Army Summer Day Camp.

We have music as well, reading.

So we're making sure that all those skills are retained throughout the summer.

- The Kroc Center sits a couple of miles from where the Sixers practice on Camden's waterfront and less than 10 miles from where they play, at least for the next few years.

- 76ers are a huge part of this community.

And for them to come on here and to interact with community kids, it's valuable not only for them, but they're teaching them skills, they're teaching them drills, they're giving out swag.

So it's really fun for the kids of our community.

- Since our offices and where we practice and play is right down the street in Camden, we wanna make sure we have a large impact in the city, working with the mayor's office, working with different organizations like the Kroc Center.

So Camden's home and we definitely wanna play our part.

- Mike Goings is the vice president of social responsibility and fan development for the Sixers.

He says the team tries to arrange something with Camden campers every year.

- We've done basketball clinics every summer.

Since that time, we've done big scale, large scale, smaller scale.

So this is our summer hoops tour program, which is pretty much our standard program we do in the summertime.

- The Sixers have practiced in Camden for about nine years and Goings says events like this are just as important for the team as they are for the community.

- Camden's home for us, so we always wanna make sure we do our part in terms of bettering the community here.

And the easy thing for us is really just spreading the game of basketball, putting smiles on kids' faces throughout the summer months through the game of basketball, teaching life lessons as well.

So really just trying to use basketball as a vehicle to help better the community.

(team cheering) - And a vehicle to keep some of Camden's kids smiling and having a good time.

In Camden, I'm Ted Goldberg, NJ Spotlight News.

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