D. Williams a.k.a. “Stretch”
I had a blast this past weekend chilling in Queens with the fam. My nephew, who plays for coach Rob Diaz and his N.Y.C.’s Finest AAU squad, had a game at Roy Wilkins Park. I showed up with my older brother and lil sister to cheer him on. We had a great […]

Crazy AF “flavors” @ Nike
What’s good everyone?! It’s the resident foot soldier for Bounce here to tell you how I spent my Friday night at the Nike ID Gallery in lower Manhattan. There was food, drinks, collectors, and best of all FREE sneakers!!

I was invited by Mr. DJ Cucumber Slice himself to chill at […]

An official NYC tournament shirt is a big thing. Not everyone can get one. All sorts of flavors in the five boroughs. We’re going to show “shirt” throughout the summer of 2007.

Uptown Challenge HS & College Women between 130th 131st & 5th Ave on
weekends

See Holombe Rucker @ 145th Street and Lenox - Boys […]

Adris “Too Hard To Guard” DeLeon
BOUNCE stopped by Thursday’s edition of Pro City at Hunter College to take in some game action and a few of our favorite playground ballers doing their thing.
Team Dyckman and the Uptowners was the first game played. In the minds of Pro City regulars this contest should’ve been an automatic […]

Steve Burtt Jr.
As Christian reported yesterday, Steve Burtt Jr. re-wrote history at EBC on Wednesday. BOUNCE had front row seats to attest. Steve Jr., former Iona College guard and son of Iona/Rucker legend Steve “All Day” Burtt, broke the EBC league record of 63 points in a game set by James “Pookie” Williams back […]

One of the real joys of outdoor ball was the “cla-clack” sound of a ball hitting a metal perforated backboard. Full metal and half-moon white backboards gave you that “boom” sound when you slapped backboard hard on your man when u drove for a lay-up. Those sounds are quickly coming to an […]

Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there because I was in Boston on business….BUT, I heard that something phenomenal happened up on 155th street last night.
Steve “The Saga Continues” Burtt Jr. broke the park scoring record. He dropped 68 points…that’s right 68. 30+30+4+4! At about 9pm the calls and texts started pouring in. My boy Jason […]