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Former Woodrow Wilson, Marshall University and professional basketball player Tamar Slay watches as high school and middle school players from across the state run 3-on-3 drills during Elite Sports Training's Preseason basketball camp Wednesday evening at the Van Meter Gymnasium on the UC-Beckley Campus. Slay is in town form North Carolina coaching up 22 area players in a 12-week comprehensive, basketball specific camp designed to improve players' strength and conditioning, more specifically in the areas of vertical jumping ability and quickness, as well as fundamental basketball skills. A 2nd-round draft pick (25th pick, 53rd overall) by the New Jersey Nets in 2002, Slay spent three seasons in the NBA (two with the Nets and one with Chicago) before playing most of his professional career in Europe. Now retired for just under a year, his goal is to help develop young basketball players across the country.