SummerBall Highlights from Last Summer

SummerBall on MSG is needed for this up-and-coming summer.Last summer,SummerBall on MSG provided the five boroughs with the best street ball action in the country. There has been rumors and talks about SummerBall on MSG not being on air this summer. If you would like to see segments such as “Boobie’s Bench” spearheaded by Boobie Smooth “The Politican” or “To the Baja” with Bobbito Gracia a.k.a Kool Bob Love, you can send an email to michael.bair@thegarden.com. People we need SummerBall on MSG back on air this summer. Send them emails ladies and gentlemen, ballplayers and lovers of the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Brooklyn Report has been circulating around the borough and around New York City. Thank you for the love ladies and gentlemen, ballplayers and lovers of the game.There are more things to come,so stay tuned. This past weekend was pretty entertaining and it went like this:

Saturday

Nate Sudlow playing at Bryant University (Courtesy of Bryant University Athletics)

The team I have been playing for since the age of 12, the Brownsville Jets,had game at George Greshwin Junior High School (I.S. 166) in East New York in the McMillian League. They were playing in the College Division (We are the Brownsville All-Stars in this league). Most of my teammates have graduated or still completing their coursework in college. Even though we are friends guys, we didn’t look like ourselves in some points of the game until my Uncle Chris called us “fake Brownsville Jets”. I can see Jocko on the sideline shaking his head telling us how to win the game. We started off well but then the lead was cut to 4 points. Besides that, we won the ball game by 16 points. You know how you’re watching a game and you vividly remember that one highlight you tell everyone on your block like 20 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here it is people: Read More »

(In my best Santogold impression) “Broooookllllllllllllyn We Gooooooooo Haaaaaaaard”

Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls and my fellow Brooklynites. The Brooklyn Report is finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever since I started working with Bounce Magazine, it seems like Brooklyn Basketball does not get as much love in the summertime. Even though Brooklyn ballplayers come to different boroughs throughout New York City and sometimes destroy the competition, we still don’t get no respect at times. I love New York but I am Brooklyn guy with a Brooklyn game. Read More »

There are no words to describe the atmosphere on this past Friday night at William H. Maxwell High School, located in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York. The stats and final score didn’t matter either. This past Friday night was dedicated to an individual who lived up to the line the great and late Notorious B.I.G. recited on “Juicy”: “Bernard spread love because its the Brooklyn way.”

I knew Bernard Lewis through a couple of friends of mine who were also his friends. I remember one summer he decided to play in a basketball tournament. Bernard played the game of basketball to stay in shape, while the rest of the crew played the game of basketball with the aspirations of making it out of Brownsville playing the game we love. To us it meant, going to school for free or putting food on the table for our families. Bernard played with the Brownsville Jets in one of the best tournaments Brownsville ever had, S.T.A.Y. (Sincerely Teaching African Youth or Striving To Achieve Yours) Basketball Classic. It was the only tournament in Brownsville that players had numbers such as 66,77 and 88. I wore number 66. His coach was James “Fly” Williams. Read More »

Ladies and Gentleman, I know I have been missing in action for quite awhile. I have been at school, Norfolk State University, holding it down for Brooklyn and of course Bouncemag.com. My intramural basketball team, Team Takeover, is # 1 in the overall standings at 8-1.I am the best coach in our intramural basketball league. Our average margin of victory is about 18 points per game. I am also the Assistant Commissioner for Intramural Basketball/Student Worker (It is a Work study job.Big shout outs to the staff as well). Sometimes I get on the Bullhorn and do my “Boobie Smooth” impersonation depending on who is playing and how many people are in the crowd. Read More »

The Diamonds are just more than a team; you can call them “A Band of Brothers” or better yet a family. Coach Diamond has been on the sidelines for years and has even stepped in between those lines too giving his defenders pure hell. I sat down with him one day in the neighborhood, just a regular conversation about the game . . .

Randy Millard: How many years have you’ve been coaching for?

Diamond: I’ve been coaching since 1987 so I’ve been around for a minute.

RM: Has your coaching style changed over the 20 years?

D: No not really. My coaching style only changes depending who is on the floor at certain points of the game.

RM: How you do feel about the coaches in New York City?

D: I don’t feel any way. Most get a lot of ballplayers with no structure at all at times. Read More »

It was a humid and hot Sunday afternoon in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. I just came from taking pictures at the Rueben “Shu” Niles Classic which was held at the Mecca of BK, the Old Soul in the Hole (now Raymond Bush Playground). I walked over a couple of blocks to JHS 258 Park to catch some of the 8-Ball Tournament action and I ran into my man Anthony Lesane. I remember this kid use to cause damage in his age group and then even cause more wreck in the older brackets. We caught up and talked about Brooklyn . . .

Randy Millard: Ant Lesane, where have you been?

Anthony Lesane: I have been working out on my game all summer. I am currently at F.I.T. (Fashion Institute of Technology) where I am averaging 20 points and 8 rebounds a game. Last time I checked, I was number #24 in the Nation in Scoring and #34 in the Nation in Rebounding. This summer I am just trying to get bigger and work on my ball handling. I didn’t play in a lot of tournaments this summer either. My school team should be good this year so get ready for us. Read More »