Playing 21 at Mt. Morris Park
My fourth day in New York City (July 21th) was harder than I expected. I woke up early to attend to Bobbito Garcia’s “Anytime, Anyday” Work-out/Open Run at legendary Mt. Morris Park (120th St. and Madison Ave.). I met there with Bobbito, Jansy, Ballgurl, Roman and others guys (shout outs […]

The Glover brothers at Dyckman. (photo. Samera Marsh)
First, on Friday night clutch free-throw shooting by Quinton “T2” Hosley and Anthony Glover in the final 43.5 seconds propelled the Dyckman (204th St. and Nagle Ave., Inwood, Manhattan) past a scrappy Philly All-Stars. The select team, who started Kareem “Big Game” Reid and Adris “Too Hard To […]

Smush Parker after his game winner against Uptowners. Photo: Kyle Henry
Last night at Nike Pro City (68th and Lexington) I watched probably the best game of basketball I’ve ever seen. It had everything, star power, an intense atmosphere, a game tight MC and it ended with a buzzer-beater. Smush Parker hit a deep 26-footer as […]

Melvin “Problem Child” Creddle, Jason McDonald photo.
Now that the summer is officially over, we present to you our NYC All-Street Selections. Voters included Sean Couch and Bobbito Garcia (co-founders, Bounce Magazine), Samera “BallGurl” Marsh (www.bouncemag.com), Rickey Rivers (Fireball/Funsport), Bernard Bowen (Referee Assignor), Edgar Burgos (MSG-TV “Summerball” Producer), Paul “PR” Rivera (Nike-NYC Brand Manager), Sid Jones […]

Nate “Naughty By Nature” Brown guards Adris “2 hard 2 Guard” De Leon

The kids of the Metro Hawks 14-under team are making names, just like the older guys.
Hoops In The Sun tournament directors Joe and Randy Cruz are doing their best construction work over at Orchard Beach (BX) by bridging the gap between super-duper playground […]

Initially, I was going to use this post as a gripe session about the one on one display put on by two specific players (you know who you are) @ Dyckman on Friday. It took some of the joy out of the game, but then I saw Adris De Leon going at Ron Artest like […]

For the upcoming issue of Bounce, we ranked the Top 20 players in New York City. This was not an easy task by any means. We aren’t dropping the whole list on you at once. Here is a sneak peak at the 10 through 20 rankings. If you have beef with […]