The Brief The Boys and Girls State Basketball Championships will be moving to Jacksonville. For decades, the event was hosted at the RP Funding Center in downtown Lakeland. After decades of being held in the city of Lakeland, the Boys and Girls State Basketball Championships will now be hosted in Jacksonville. Local perspective:Abby Starkey and her husband started the Chop Shop in 2006 and have been in downtown Lakeland for nearly two decades. Now, one of the biggest events that draws tens of thousands of visitors to the area, the Boys and Girls State Basketball Championships, will be moving to Jacksonville.