Outside of the three games where they’ve matched up against each other on the hardwood, today is the first time that Amen and Ausar Thompson have been in the same space rocking their respective NBA threads. Amen in the Rockets’ red. Ausar in the Pistons’ blue. So it’s only right that the moment occurs in the same gym that they first stepped into as 6-4 eighth graders. Except this time, they’re returning to shoot their first-ever SLAM cover.

It’s a characteristically sunny day in Fort Lauderdale, FL, during Father’s Day weekend and the Thompson twins are back at Pine Crest School, where they transferred in 2018 to get a head start on varsity. Aside from the recolored court and updated half-court logo, everything inside the gym has remained the same, from the pine green bleachers to the matching wall padding. 

Amen and Ausar may have left the sprawling southern Florida campus after their junior year, but the gym has remained a second home. And once they stepped through the doors, that brotherly banter was in full effect. 

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