'Basketball changed Beeri's life.'
The Warriors Basketball Academy provides a life-changing experience for a camper with cerebral palsy.At the Warriors Basketball Academy in Oakland, the gym is filled daily with the sweet sounds of basketball. Coaches teaching, sneakers squeaking and the sound of the ball swishing through the net.
We first met Beeri in the summer of 2022 at a Warriors camp in Thrive City in front of Chase Center where NBA champion Damion Lee lifted him to the hoop for a dunk and signed an autograph for the young Warriors fan. "He was born at 32 weeks, a lot of people with cerebral palsy were born premature," said his mother Raya Zeltzer Avrutsky.At a 4-year-old, Beeri had surgery to stop his spasms and the rehab process began. Progress was slow, but when his family moved from Israel to the United States, basketball became the medicine that worked wonders.
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