Spokane sports the moniker of "Hooptown USA" in large part due to its 3-on-3 basketball tournament, Hoopfest, which will tip for its 33rd year of existence on Saturday, and the nonprofit that has helped build and clean up blacktops around town. But if you cruise any of the streets of the Lilac City for several weeks in late spring and early summer, whether it's a lunch break or just as the streetlights are about to come on, you'll see that the people of the city have just as much to do with that name as the event itself.