As he stood in Rees Park in Gary, Pastor Keion Henderson remembered watching Glenn Robinson get drafted to the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1994 National Basketball Association draft. After Robinson began his NBA career, Henderson remembers him donating funds to replace basketball courts in the city.

“I said, ‘One day, I want to do something with my life and come back and do something in the place that gave me life’,” said Henderson, a Gary native. “And to be able to do that 20 years later is a testament to never giving up and sticking (to) the course and moving and walking by faith.”

The city of Gary, in a Friday afternoon ceremony, dedicated the park to Henderson and renamed it after him. The pastor recently donated $100,000 to revitalize the space, which was used to pay for a new playground

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