Castro posing for upcoming show America's Next Sports Star
Four months ago, we featured Courtney Castro as one of New York’s best-kept secrets. Since then, he’s lit up tournaments like Hoops In The Sun, Rodney Park, and the upstart Lower Manhattan Classic. Castro has taken his game to the pro-level and even explored the Hollywood scene. He’s no longer a secret!
The name Wat Misaka is re-entering the lexicon of New York City’s basketball faithful. A Japanese American born and raised in Utah, Misaka was the first person of color ever to play in the NBA. In 1947, three years before Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper and the Knicks’ Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton (and 52 years before Yao Ming set foot on NBA hardwood) the 5-7 guard who started at point for the two-time National Champion Utah Utes was not only the first non-Caucasian ever drafted but the first draft pick by the New York Knickerbockers. Ever. Read More »
The Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown was off the chain at Madison Square Garden, Team Flight Brothers was defenetly in the building, Big shot out to Air Bama, Rude Boy, JFK & Special FX. Of course I lost with a star studded line up like that, on my second try I missed a bunch of windmills and was eliminated, I still had fun though cause I got to watch Special FX pull out a bag of tricks and he did not dissapoint.
Although spring isn’t even here yet in NYC, as a bunch of basketball freaks, we’re already looking for the best places to play and the best leagues to join this summer.
We wanted to ask our readers – across the globe – where you get your burn during the summer. Indoor, outdoor, you name it. Drop us a line in the comments and let us know the name and location of the leagues you play in, the tournaments you join, the courts you frequent and tell us what the run is like. Who knows, maybe we’ll come through or feature it on the site…
Ballers Network is where players live. Ballplayers from around the world, from every level of the game, come to Ballers Network every day to manage their basketball lives, to connect with each other and to share their basketball stories, both on Facebook and BallersNetwork.com.
As a member of our global family, we want your profile to sit alongside the profiles of players ranging from the NBA and WNBA to college, high school and everything in-between. All you have to do is send us a few great pictures of you playing ball, fill out your basketball profile and we will handle the rest. Read More »
While the critical mass is still trying to wrap its head around blogs, the trendiest social media dabblers are ramping up their Twitter games.
Lost?
Translation: Twitter is a compelling text-based service that allows users to post messages of up to 140 characters in length.
Still lost? Think Nate Robinson or Andre Barrett: short, quick, but altogether effective.
Bounce recently took the plunge; Charlie Villanueva suffers from a full-fledged addiction; and Shaq? Well, he’s entirely more consistent with posting Tweets than he is with connecting from the charity stripe.
All of this begs the question: If I join, how do I connect with members of the basketball community? Simple. Kevin Rose, who bears no relation to Chi-town’s cornerstone distributor, just created the most user-friendly directory–aptly named, WeFollow. Ya Digg?
Under the popular tag of basketball, you’ll find 40,034 users. The NBA tag lists 489,893 Twitter accounts. And streetball? Well, let’s just say the sole registrant is doing an individual workout for now. This void offers a ripe opportunity for Bounce readers to cash in on this keyword. If you didn’t know, Twitter is the fastest growing social media platform in the industry.
So what are you waiting for? Follow Bounce and don’t forget to follow me.
Peter Robert Casey is a basketball columnist, coach, tournament/event planner, and online social media strategist. Click here to view his homepage.
Two Fridays ago, a couple friends and I hit the Bradley Center in Milwaukee to watch the woeful Bucks square off against LeBron’s Cleveland Cavaliers. We took advantage of this “All You Can Eat Fridays” ticket deal and scored nosebleed tickets on the cheap. As we masticated the free stadium victuals, ‘Bron went off, pouring in 16 straight points during the first three minutes of the 3rd Quarter. Ironically, LBJ bricked his free throws during the sequence and missed several times from the charity stripe over the course of the game. I think he ended with an easy fifty-five…My boy Danny (who came wearing his authentic James jersey) was amped!
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