The players of the Fall 2006 Boston NTL Weekly Practice Programs gathered, Saturday, Dec 17, 2006, at Harvard University's venerable Malkin Athletic Center for the 34th Never Too Late Basketball Classic. Beginner through Intermediate players tipped off at 9:29am for two full-court games followed by a championship tilt on the Center Court (the same court upon which Bill Bradley battled Harvard hoopsters in the mid-1960s). The games were followed by the first round of the NTL/New Balance One-Minute Shooting Challenge. Donations for The Challenge, earmarked for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Bay State Chapter, topped $500. The winner in the First Division was Ta-Chung Chang of Hopkinton, MA (Stanford); he got a gift certificate for a new pair of New Balance kicks for making all those shots. The Intermediate/Advanced players lined up for the jump ball at 11:24am and followed the same format as the early group. Couple of games and then the BIG Championship. Akira Motomura who lives in Norwood, MA with his wife and showing-early-skills baby girl and who went undergrad at Yale set a PR with a 21 pt shooting effort. (He's got a short, simple, worthy-of-emulation stroke on his shot.) It was a lot of fun, a sweet and good vibe in the gym all-day because of the really good people who play NTL in Boston.