Slam Dunk to the Beach taking hiatus in 2024

LEWES, Del. – The Delaware Sports Commission has announced a temporary hiatus for Slam Dunk to the Beach.

The tournament was relaunched in 2014 and has become a holiday tradition for Sussex County every December. The event has also generated millions of dollars in economic impact through the out-of-state teams and fans that traveled to Delaware each year.

We’re told the hiatus for 2024 is for the assessment of the evolving landscape of elite high school basketball.

Chairman of the DSC, Dr. Matthew Robinson, released the following statement:

“As the elite high school basketball landscape continues to evolve, we thought it would be prudent to take a step back and evaluate how best to continue supporting and promoting the event moving into the future. When we relaunched the event in 2014 we made two important promises, one, to offer the highest quality of high school basketball for our fans. Second, we wanted to be fiscally responsible in that we would pay our vendors and meet our obligations to our sponsors. I feel for the past 10 years we have lived up to those promises. The changing landscape will make it a challenge to continue fulfilling those promises.”