The post on Twitter said it all.

When Connor Robinson swished a 3-pointer in last Friday’s Oswego basketball game, it wasn’t just his first career trifecta.

It was the sweetest shot Oswego will see all year.

“2-0 vs. Cancer, 1-for-1 at the arc. Kid is an inspiration,” tweeted Panthers assistant coach Matt Borrowman.

It’s a moment Robinson gladly relives, and nobody around the Panthers will forget.

“Hayden [Castle] kicked it out to me, and I just shot it,” said Robinson, an Oswego junior. “When I saw it go in, I saw the bench and everybody jumping up and down. It felt great.”

It’s the start of a special week for Robinson, and the Oswego basketball family.

On Saturday, the communities of Oswego and Yorkville will come together again for the Communities vs. Cancer Hoops for Hope charity fundraiser at Yorkville High School.

Now in its eighth year, the event has raised close to $25,000.

Proceeds from this year’s event will go toward Cal’s Angels, a locally-based pediatric cancer foundation that provides financial assistance to families with a child fighting cancer.

Every player will play for a family member or friend touched by cancer. Two from Oswego will be playing for Robinson.

Connor, or “crob” as he’s known around the Oswego program, is in recovery from his second bout of leukemia.

Cancer claimed his father, Brian, in 2008 and his sister, Faith, in 2013.

Connor went back to the school a little over a month after first being diagnosed in third grade in 2010. Chemotherapy, which lasted some 39 months, didn’t stop him from playing basketball and soccer, and running cross country in seventh grade.

“He was running in 90-degree heat the day after he had chemo with his doctor,” said his mother, Crystal.

Connor’s relapse, though, was a shock. Doctors found that the leukemia was working through his central nervous system, attacking his brain through his spinal fluid. He was on a ventilator in the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital for 17 days. When he came off it, he couldn’t speak for about a month.

He left school in October of his eighth-grade year, and never returned.

“He never got discouraged, always hung in there,” Crystal Robinson said. “So many teammates and coaches will tell you they are inspired by how he responds and keeps going.”

The Robinsons also had glimpses of faith, as Crystal calls them. Connor was first transferred to Lurie in October 2014. Crystal was overwhelmed, didn’t know a soul, until she found a familiar name. It was Connor’s nurse, Julie Borrowman, Matt’s sister.

“Even there, OPB [Oswego Panther basketball] was right there,” Crystal said. “She took care of him.”

A bone marrow donor, a 30-some-year-old man from Germany, was found through Be the Match. Connor’s bone marrow transplant was done March 4, 2015, the day older brother Brice and Oswego played a regional game.

Exactly a year to the day later, Connor crawled up the ladder at Andrew High School to cut down a piece of net when Oswego won a regional.

“Call it what you want, it’s amazing,” Crystal said. “Connor has had so much fun being a part of that group.”

Basketball, either playing or watching, is in Connor’s words “most of his life.” He takes the ball after every game Brice plays at Illinois Wesleyan and puts up shots for 45 minutes afterward. Even the Wesleyan dads play with him.

This Saturday is particularly significant, and has been to the Robinsons. Crystal remembers Brice getting his first dunk against Yorkville, as a sophomore.

Connor knows Cal’s Angels, where proceeds are going toward this year, well. They came to Lurie every month he was there, providing pizza parties. He received a laptop.

“They do some things that are really needed,” Crystal said.

A manager his freshman year when Brice was a senior, Connor inspires as a member of the team.

He takes 12 to 15 pills a day, goes for physical occupational therapy every week and speech cognitive therapy every other week.

Tough as they come, it doesn’t stop Connor from coming to practice every day, doing all the drills and competing. He finishes every single sprint.

“The kid is an inspiration to everyone around him,” Oswego coach Chad Pohlmann said. “Never have I once heard him complain about his situation, never have I once heard him complain that he has to do something. It’s amazing the kid’s will.”