Photo Courtesy of NYC streetball photographer of the year Kevin Couliau

Kadour Ziani was here this Tuesday testing out the rims at the world famous streetball court, KINGDOME. As I made my way through Martin Luther King projects, I could see from a distance that he started his test runs by jamming the ball between the backboard and rim. Read More »

photo: Erin Edwards

New York City is the home of summer outdoor ball. There are several strong tournaments in New York – Gun Hill, Hoops in the Sun, Watson, Together We Chill, EBC, Kingdome, and others. Many long time tournament watchers would like to see all of them compete.

“Is this really the tournament of champions?” questioned NYC Pro/Am ref Eric Weaver. “This is only Nike sponsored tournaments. We’re missing EBC, Watson, there’s other major tournaments that have champions.” Read More »

MSG Network has decided to not bring back the SUMMERBALL series, hosted by Bobbito and Boobie Smooth, in 2009 after three successful seasons. In 2008, the program attracted the highest ratings of any original programming for the channel. Hopefully it’ll back in the future, write to www.msg.com if you’d like to see SUMMERBALL back on the air!

KINGDOME (114th St. bet. Lenox and 5th Ave.) will start June 13th. There is no validity to the rumor that Puff is sponsoring the tournament this year. It is only word of mouth on the street, allegedly started by Puff himself. So it can happen, but as of yet Kingdome director Huncho and P Diddy have not spoken.

TRI-STATE CLASSIC will reportedly start this weekend June 6 at it’s same 2008 location of Colonel Young Park on 145th St. and Lenox (2, 3 train to 145th). The rumor of the tournament moving to Mt. Morris Park on 120th and Madison has not been confirmed. The league will have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday games this summer instead of Monday thru Thursday.