Jamel Thomas played for the Providence Friars

Reading “Smack” the other day on “dimemag.com” as every hoops aficionado should, I noticed that there was a mention of Jamel Thomas. The common fan may not be aware of who he is, but if you were into college ball in the late 90’s or have knowledge of the […]

Team O.J. Mayo
#2 seed Team O.J. Mayo defeated #8 seed Dime Magazine 99-78 for the 2008 Chosen League Championship. The champions are perhaps the greatest assembly of the players the league has ever seen, as the roster is stocked with seven Division 1 scholarship players. The game started close with the favorites leading 16-12 early. […]

Our good partners at Dime Magazine have collabed with Nike Basketball to create www.ballersnetwork.com! Here is the tag, “Find a run. Create a league. Connect with ballers worldwide.” Sounds on the money, right? It’s essentially facebook for ballplayers. They showed a brother some love with a funky lil’ profile, and there are articles on Steve […]

Chosen League, Philadelpia, PA.
The Chosen League is the best league in Philadelphia. Period. Every top high school player that has come through the city of brotherly love since 2002, have tested their wills against top competition on the concrete of Cherashore Playground at 10th and Olney in North Philadelphia. The list of stories from, Kyle […]

Last Friday for the 4th of July, I was hired to spin Latin records poolside in the Hamptons, Long Island . . .

I can’t front, everyday I fiend to be out on the court, especially during the summer, but aside from reading back issues of Dime and France’s Reverse Magazine, I wasn’t really thinking about […]

In a rematch of last week’s season finale, our Nike NRF League Team Shox took on 1st Place finishers Team Huarache in a first round showdown last night. NRF commissioner Jeff Staple predicted that we would say goodbye, and we did! The crew didn’t bow out without battling, though. We took our only lead with […]

In a rematch of last week’s season finale, our Nike NRF League Team Shox will take on 1st Place finishers Team Huarache in a first round showdown. NRF commissioner Jeff Staple has predicted that we will say goodbye, but I’m hoping to have a personal say in that. Yes, we lost ‘07 regular season league […]

The Dime Magazine crew hit up the Converse NYC a few days ago, and came back with some enlightening news.

The Converse Fastbreak is coming back (albeit it in limited quantites this August! Bob, where you at! And below is a wall of new releases….I’d like to get a better look at the joints on the […]