Some people may agree or make up any reason just to disagree with Antwan “Anti-Freeze” Dobie winning the 2010 Nike Player of the Year hardware. This is the only time you will get to hear my opinion on any subject matter I put on the Bouncemag.com website. “Anti-Freeze” won the award in my eyes. “Anti-Freeze” had a great summer putting up numbers in an array of Street ball tournaments  across the Big Apple.

Offensively, he gives you 48 minutes of “how can I stop him?!”. “Anti-Freeze” is accustomed to getting 20+ per outing. My only issue with him is defensively at times. “Anti-Freeze” you had a great summer homey. Keep up the good work across the water and rep to NYC to the fullest ya dig! Read More »

* God Shammgod on Cover of Issue 25 * Corey Homicide Rocks the New Jordan Outdoor Kicks * LeBron Loses a Game of H.O.R.S.E. * Old School Feature: Oscar “Big O” Robertson * Street Dogma: “The Newness” – The Modern Playground * Shane “Dribbling Machine” *

sean@bouncemag.com

To: The World of Playground Basketball

Re: The Evolution

September 1, 2010 10:10 AM

My people -

To AG the voice of Harlem (still chanting and repping the mic hard in NYC) to Lil Rah (Sean Bell All-Stars) to Joe Pope (Voice of Watson Tournament, we recognize at Bounce no doubt! ) to Paul Rivera (Nike NYC in Turkey worldwide) to ATL Dirty South – the US rep at Quai 54 and my 19U brothers united in China, PR and Brasil, to Bobbito Garcia announcing the Elite 24 on ESPNU, and to my enemies: Toni “Rocky Horror” – I love my enemy, gotta do it according to the Word – and The JC Select Team, who is about to get Tex-Mexed by the area – a present for you all – The Evolution Issue. See Manu and Danilo do the “Shammgod” in the NBA, see kids at the playground do the “Sham” in China, France and the Netherlands, see 44 year old men do the Shammgod to win a 3-on-3 tournament. Read More »

The 2010 Nike Tournament of Champions was about one thing – Namesake. I had a convo with Corey “Homicide” Williams a few weeks before the game and he told me two important things about the city game. “It takes a long time to build a name but only a second to lose it,” Homicide said. Makes sense.

Watching a player kill summer after summer only adds to their legacy. It’s why players like the newly retired John “Franchise” Strickland, the master of post finishing for several years in New York City, are so revered in playground basketball – he owned the game in his prime and now in its 4th year, the Nike T.O.C. can bite that rep and now be called “The Franchise” of NYC tournament ball. Read More »

Photo: Sean Couch. World Basketball Festival at Rucker Park.

A 12 year old kid dribbles a ball outside his Polo Ground apartment building and heads over to Rucker Park Saturday morning, August 14, 2010. As he approaches the park, Kobe Bryant is conducting a Chainlink Fundamental clinic on a hardwood NBA-sized floor. He then signs up and works on his game. After the work out he runs up and down in the Converse Open Gym Program (yes, outdoors on the wood) and then sits his butt down and watches his older international basketball playing brothers compete. A 19 year old Chinese player punches it on one of New York’s finest early in the NYC vs China 19U game and its on, pure comp at the highest level.

The best of all basketball times converged on NYC that day, a groundbreaking event that brought international teams to Rucker Park to compete in a series of exhibitions that brought a new era of international professional involvement to worldwide tournament outdoor basketball. Spain, China, Brazil, Puerto Rico and France came uptown, and the city, for a moment, became the property of Nike’s World Basketball Festival. Read More »

The world basketball festival (Aug 12-15) is less than a month away. Player appearances, retail pop-up shops and actual on-court action in unprecedented places (Namely Times Square) is on the way, but before all that action attacks Manhattan, the people at Nike, Converse and Brand Jordan wanted to give a everyone a chance to see how all aspects of the game started, how we got here and where the future will take us.

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Back in May the Bingo vs R2K Spring Hoops in the Sun chip was so hot that t-shirts were made. As we head into the home stretch, what do you think is the biggest rivalry in NYC? What team do you think will be in the most chips int 2010?

X-Men won Fireball and Bingo’s has Spring Hoops in the Sun so it’s 1 up. My choice for 2010 at the end of August: X-Men.

Biggest Rivalries:

1. Bingo’s All-Stars vs Sean Bell All-Stars. 2. Money Train or TNP vs X-Men. 3. Prime Time vs United Brooklyn. 4. Terror Squad vs S.Carter at EBC. (permanent ink) 5. Nike 1 vs Prime Time. 5A. Nike 1 vs Queensbridge. 6. Dominican Power vs Da Young Ones. 7. United Brooklyn vs Dyckman. 8. Dominican Power vs Harlem Ballers. 9. X-Men vs Sean Bell All-Stars. 10. R2K vs Bingo’s All-Stars.

The one-man Fury traveling team, Darren “DJ” Jiang of Battlegrounds fame and now part of the Nike team, came back to NY on Tuesday to help oversee the opening of Nike’s new space in Harlem. When not acting as Lebron and Kobe’s personal translator in China, DJ drops in from time to time and gets a game in with us. And, he ALWAYS has on the latest from Nike

Unfortunately, I’m no sneakerhead by any stretch and shame on me, I’m an embarrassment to Bob especially. I didn’t even get good shots of the kicks. In the game, DJ wore a pair of new, Carolina Blue pre-release Nike Hyperfuse, the latest incarnation of the Hypderdunk line, set to launch at the World Basketball Festival in August. Read More »

Richard Jefferson and Coach Jim Couch.

Previously undefeated Nike 1 (4-1) took the L last night against a suddenly awake Dyckman (3-2) team that is gearing up for the playoffs. Dyckman is expected to add Mike Dunleavy to its front line for the remainder of the season.

A summary of the game by Zach Braziller of the New York Post: Jefferson Makes Nike Pro City debut.