It was a few months after his death that Dylan Isaacs's friends approached his family and asked if they could do a basketball tournament in Six Nations of the Grand River, honouring the 30-year-old.

"[Isaacs] always talked about bringing basketball to our community more, and especially for the youth," said his aunt, Cecelia Sky.

Now, 19 months after he was killed , the second annual Dylan Isaacs Memorial Basketball Tournament is underway this weekend and it has become something he'd be "over the moon" with, Sky said.

The event brings in several, mostly Indigenous, basketball groups from all over the U.S. and Canada, and this year, they accomplished their initial goal of having part of the event aimed at youth from the community.

Isaacs was a member of the Cayuga Nation. On January 7,

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