Rise up Indonesian Streetball! Check out the Facebook page on LA Lights Streetball and the website. The ballers in Indo got nicknames like “Transformer,” “Shutdown,” and “Complicated.” Worldwide it spins…

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November 8, 2011 Josh Howard Celebrity All-Star Game: BasketballChannel.net to Stream

–John Wall, Jason Terry, LaMarcus Aldridge & Andray Blatche – P.C. Cobb – Dallas, Nov. 12

This Saturday Josh Howard will bring basketball to Dallas-area fans live and in person at the P.C. Cobb Center when he hosts and plays in The Josh Howard Celebrity All-Star Basketball Game Presented by Free Move Texas, and to fans everywhere via live web-stream on BasketballChannel.net. Tip-off is 6 p.m. Central Time / 7 p.m. Eastern Time.

Four players have been added to the game’s lineup – Jeremy Evans, Jason Maxiell, Damien Wilkins and Hamady N’diaye. Basketball fans near and far will get to see some of their hometown favorites play the game they love. Read More »

In an interview with AND 1’s Antwan “8th Wonder” Scott the 6-8 former Wake Forest standout mentioned that “he never thought [he] would actually play in a streetball game because [he] didn’t grow up playing streetball.” After dropping 28 in his first game and getting his nickname from Duke Tango he talked about the “respect” he earned. Something more than just word of mouth makes a true streetballer. A person true to the street respects his hood and NEVER puts negative energy onto it. I might be in the minority on this opinion but I’ll run with it here in NYC. Check how Antwan has served his community for years in the highlight below:

The Shorty Rock Mixtape series is a tribute to young players who have game that is built to win.

I first saw Marcus Floyd at John Lucas’ International Middle School Combine in May. I left saying that he was one of the top ball handlers in the country. Marcus starts our mixtape series as one of the shorty rocks that has the outdoor flair that will translate to a strong indoor game in high school and college. As DJ Funkmaster Flex tells his man Cipha Sounds ‘Don’t get gassed!!!’, I’m telling young Floyd the same.
Nevertheless, he is an elite talent and if he keeps working hard he is on his way to bigger and better things.

Marcus Floyd – 9th grade – Wilmington, DE
Footwork: Light, explosive with hezzo.
Finishing Style: Strong floater with body bump confrontation skills
Boost Mobile Elite 24: Likely

The Shorty Rock Mixtape series is a tribute to young players who have game that is built to win. Players like Brandon Jennings, Kemba Walker and Kyrie Irving all had the outdoor flair as youngins’ that carried over to indoor success. Check the next generation, here on Bounce.

Branden Key – 9th Grade – Wisconsin
Footwork: Light, Quick
Finishing Style: Reverse Lay Game with boardclap
Boost Mobile Elite 24 Status: Possible

Friendship Park in Stamford, CT is not known on the outdoor streetball basketball circuit but that could all change now after a strong Labor Day weekend event hosted by former Cardozo H.S. standout Drew Gladstone, Levar Wakefield and Popie Joesph. The game featured St. John’s standout Malik Booth, Kavon Lytch and Nakia “Fab” Miller on a refurbished court with True Bounce backboards like those in Dyckman Park. Gladstone is part of a basketball rich family that has quietly contributed to playground basketball in ways that have gone unnoticed. Read More »

It took a minute, but Bounce #27 is here! Again, Ali “Prime” Danois knocks out a feature on our cover subject – Jimmer Fredette – that gives playground ball and streetball common ground. I hope you know the difference…Tobias Harris, the hoodburbian from Long Island, is all-business, all the time, and his tournament ball dedication while young is now reflected in his status as one of the top 20 new professional players in the world…Street Dogma covers Chicago’s Sonny Parker, who works hard to keep kids in the gym and off the mean streets. EBC’s Greg Marius provides a dedicated moment to one of New York City’s greatest modern day streetball players – John “The Franchise” Strickland – and we crush a whole lot with a cool story about the rise of one of the most underrated producers in modern music history – Mike Bivens – who stole entire backboards and poles to play ball back in the day. Enjoy!

Durant surrounded in Harlem World

I saw the future of the NBA, incredibly, last night. And as the thunderstorm that threatened Mondays EBC game swirled north of the building that is Rucker Park, up into the Bronx, dropping hail on the borough that keeps on “creating it” according to KRS-1, I watched young 10 and 11 year-old shorty rocks sitting on the bench with KD, now known as “I am the One” at EBC. I saw two streetball legends, men who are dedicated to the run, Future and White Chocolate, introduce KD to NYC. I saw the future.

On a perfect midsummer night, as kids listened in KD’s huddle and lined the court up close, we all made money. And check it, I hear my present and former partners, the streetball community, and some real grimy niggums laughing at me because of the things I believe in, the things that I know make the playground game important. I don’t knock the new hustle, I just know that in order for NYC to create players like KD again, who looked like “Dr. J” reborn on the pavement last night, we need more of what I saw, last night. Read More »