NBA Champ visits Armendariz Middle, Young Women's Academy

Former Los Angeles Laker Adrian Branch visited Armendariz Middle School and the Young Women’s STEAM Preparatory on Nov. 7, 2019 to encourage students to make positive life choices. Coldwell, Crockett and Moreno elementary fifth graders joined their feeder campus to hear the former NBA guard and motivational speaker’s presentation. Before getting started, he let students try on his 1987 NBA championship ring. Branch, who is now a basketball analyst with ESPN, spends much of his time making presentations across the country to students. He knows most won’t know him from his days as a Laker but hopes they get his message. (Leonel Monroy, Jr./El Paso ISD)