'Chosen' people put on an outdoor show.

Byline: Steve King

Jul. 18--Rahim Thompson can remember a lot of the things his grandmother, Lena Danielson, used to tell him when he was younger. Clean your room. Be in before the lights come on, and you better not leave that porch.

But after she died in the summer of 2002, the one thing Thompson remembers her saying the most was that he should consider starting his own basketball league.

He waited only a few weeks before creating the Chosen League, now one of the city's top outdoor summer basketball programs.

"When it first started, it was a league designed to give the kids in the community something to do for the summer," says Thompson, 30. "I never imagined that it would reach the levels that it has today and have such an impact on as many kids as it does."

The Chosen League, which plays its games …