This is my brand new book (the eighth!!), PLAYGROUND IN USA, a road trip through a lot of basketball courts around the United States… New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Orlando, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, a mad mix of average courts and scary courts, doesn’t matter for me, ugly and terrible baller but with spirit and attitude!! I also took all the pics of the book. Read More »

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Out now!! “This is Da Move,” the brand new DVD contains 45 minutes of pure freestyle passion from jams all around Europe. The biggest basketball freestyle show has footage from Italy and beyond, more than 250 shows with backstage, road, and art images, to go along with the after-party scene and freestyle camp lessons.

Established in 2000 in the Milan suburbs, “Da Move” has represented in all the biggest Tournaments around Italy and Europe. Read More »

Doctor J and the Philadelphia 76ers of the early Eighties are the reason why I love this game. All my italian friends “escaped” (like me, more or less) from football (soccer), were all Lakers or Celtics fans. It was right, Los Angeles and Boston was the great rivalry of the Eighties, but for me The Doctor was the only one who shaked my chair for real. Read More »

Freestyle basketball: a total degeneration of ball handling in an explosive mix of creativity and hard work. Right here in the Belpaese we got Da Move, the best basketball Freestyle Show around here. Established in 2000 in the Milan suburbs, Da Move made the show in all the biggest Tournaments around Italy and Europe. Lorenzo “Aig Scream” Pinciroli and Fabio “K-Lean” Mastromatteo are the co-founders of the crew, who’s rallied freestylers, dunkers and streetballers, all “ball addicted”, to set up the show. Read More »

Marko Milic, 6′6”, small forward, Slovenian, was one of the most talented European players of the ’90s. Now 32 year old and still playing good ball, when he was 20 he had a great physical impact on Euroball, as we can see on the video. Read More »

“Basket City” is the real name of Bologna, Italy. Two teams in town, Virtus and Fortitudo, two tribes who face the hard battle between fellow citizens, two opposite realities in all ways, lifestyle, counsciousness, passion, background, confidence, two faces of the same city. And Bologna has its own concrete, one of the biggest concrete ball tournaments in Italy and Europe, the Giardini Margherita Nike Tournament. Read More »

From Italy to Belgrade, one way, looking for some streetball. Belgrade is the Serbia’s capital city, a nation with a great b-ball tradition, and a key city of the european ball movement. The former Yugoslavian national team (Serbia & Montenegro from 2002 ’til 2006, Serbia right now) won tons of international trophies, one Olympic Title, five World Championships, eight European Championships, being (together with Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia until 1991) a fundamental part of the european b-ball heritage. Read More »

Someone told me that Rick Apodaca has the most phenomenal jumper he’d ever seen. I think I agree. Seeing day after day the practices of Carife Ferrara in the Italian League and Apodaca taking his jumpers, I can admire the harmony of his movement, the glide in the air just before the release of the ball from the hands.

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