Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant is starting an AAU basketball program, The Commercial Appeal learned on Monday.

Morant posted a logo with eye emojis on his Instagram account. The teams will be named "Twelve Time." According to the team's Instagram page, the boys teams will be of sixth and seventh graders, and there will be a seventh grade girls team.

He is working on establishing the program to debut this summer. Morant, who was born in Georgia and raised in South Carolina, is taking it back to his roots.

"We're going to base it out of the South Carolina and Georgia area," Morant's close friend Davonte Pack told The Commercial Appeal. "All the surrounding states around South Carolina."

Morant has been heralded since December 2022 as Nike Basketball's first Gen Z signature athlete. His arrival on the AAU scene would be the latest in a long list of Nike basketball athletes starting AAU teams.

The most notable local connection is Nike EYBL's Team Thad, started by Memphis native and current Toronto Raptors forward Thaddeus Young.

Bradley Beal, Paul George, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant are among the current NBA players who also have Nike EYBL AAU teams.

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This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Grizzlies' Ja Morant creating 'Twelve Time' AAU basketball program