Photo Gallery: First ever Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp has a special guest

Basketball campers swarm up to Austin Pope to do a team cheer at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest. Pope, formerly of Burbank High, currently works out with NBA teams with the goal of being an NBA player himself  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Mac Neis, 11, of La Canada Flintridge, asks Austin Pope to sign his bright orange basketball shoes during an autograph session at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Kaya Kirtman, 9, of Burbank, plays a fun game of one-on-one with Austin Pope at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Hamming for a video camera, campers nearly bury Austin Pope who was posing with them for a group photo at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Answering a challenge by the basketball campers, Austin Pope, formerly of Burbank High and currently working out with NBA teams with the goal of being an NBA player himself, shows he can easily dunk a basketball at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

David Kao, 9, of Los Angeles, and six-year-old Cali, of Glendale, have their basketballs signed by Austin Pope at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Austin Pope, in the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Campin the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp, sizes up gift tee-shirts he brought for the basketball youth campers at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Austin Pope, formerly of Burbank High and currently working out with NBA teams with the goal of being an NBA player himself, talks about his career so far at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Austin Pope, formerly of Burbank High and currently working out with NBA teams with the goal of being an NBA player himself, stands at 6’ 5” and towers over the seated basketball campers in the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Austin Pope, at the bottom-middle of the group, sits with all of the campers at the Breakthrough Sports Basketball Camp at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank on Thursday, June 13, 2019. This is the first year of the camp, and Austin Pope is a special guest.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)