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Tulsa, Okla. – A car accident on May 4 has eight people in life, including four members of a traveling youth basketball team based in Green Country.

On May 10, almost a week after this tragedy, the rest of the Oklahoma Chaos honored her by playing in a tournament.

2 News Oklahoma listened to the chaos of remembering them and coming together in order to overcome this significant loss, not only as a team, but as a family.

The team had to fill four big shoes on Saturday: the one by the players Kyrin “Ace” Schumpert (14) and Donald “DJ” Laster (14) and that of coach Jaimon Gilstrap (33) and former coach Wayne Walls, 41.

The four other people who died were in the other car.

The 15-year-old son of Walls was the only survivor of the crash in Kansas. He is also a team in the team.

“It was a difficult week,” said Timothy Bezenah, who stood for Gilstrap and walls, told us.

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“Ace and DJ never shy away from a fight,” he said too. “You would have been four and oh out there. And that's why we want to go for you this weekend.”

The Point Guard Cameron Treadway told us: “It was a lot” because our coaches meant very well to us, you know that you really believed in all of us. [we] Loved her very much. And they really took care of us. They also believed in us. “

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“That's why you do sports,” emphasized Bezenah. “It is to be connected to other people. You don't go through life alone.”

He said that 2 news ACE, DJ and Gilstrap, especially why Treatway and Rylan Watson had returned for chaos this season.

“The love of the game is just crazy,” said Treadway about his passion for basketball. “It's like a way out of problems, anger and all of that.”

Watson told us that he loves the game's competitiveness. He said what came to mind last week was simply “continued” and “continues to work”.

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“Since I met them, they have been a family,” said Watson. “So, it really hurt.

When asked whether he now believes that her family is now stronger, he replied: “Yes, absolutely. Stronger than what it was at the beginning of the season. It only lit a fire for us. It gave us a” why “to play the game. That is really what it did.”

Watson said that the family was not a matter of course.

“I have with me [them] Five minutes before they all passed, “he recalled. As soon as I went home, I called him.”

“So just spend time with your loved ones,” he added. “Don't take it for granted. And then just enjoy life as long as it takes.”

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The chaos won their first game at the tournament. Then they pushed themselves and their supporters together, heard Bezenah and one of the parents spoke, everyone hugged, and then the team put their hands in the middle.

After three toughnesses they sang “chaos” and screamed after six six “family”.

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