The Big Apple has always been good to LeBron James, so The King wanted to do something special to show his appreciation. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 7th, LeBron is giving the “Gift of the Game” to New York City by opening up seven gyms for high school ballplayers. From 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM, various gyms throughout the city will be open for you to play. Be sure to get in a run at the following locations: Read More »
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The scam went down like this. A skinny kid named Reggie would be tossing up jumpers at the John Adams Elementary School and other playgrounds in Riverside, California. His older sister, Cheryl, would be at the other end of the court, tossing up bricks. Sometimes, she would wind up and heave the ball over the backboard and into the chain link fence.
Reggie would approach a couple of kids and the convo normally went down like this -
“You guys want to play two-on-two? I’m waiting for my man to show up. Or I can just play you with my sister down there.” Read More »
Stephane Ashpool, owner of Pigalle and member of the Pain O choKolat crew, was given the honor to artistically design a court located around the same place he spent his childhood. He commissioned Yué “NYNO” Wu to draw figures such as special guest Lebron James, Michael Jordan, Spike Lee, and Jay-Z. Ashpool chose the Venice Beach inspired turquoise, salmon, and burgundy color scheme. The court has wooden and copper backboards, metal nets hanging off silver hoops, and paint splatters in the d. Stephane Ashpool has certainly outdone himself with this one of a kind court.
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March Madness is unequivocally my favorite time of year. For the next few weeks, we’ll examine some of the greatest performers who used the NCAA Tournament as their own personal playground.
Carmelo Kiyan Anthony, though most often associated with his hometown of West Baltimore, Maryland, was introduced to the game on the asphalt of New York City. His father, Carmelo Iriate, was a playground baller who, before moving to the Big Apple, grew up on the west coast of Puerto Rico. Melo was born in 1984 and, for the first eight years of his life, lived in Brooklyn’s Red Hook Projects. Read More »
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!
LeBron’s latest “announcement” has me perplexed; something monumental is coming this Sunday, January 18, 2009. Does anyone with concrete information have anything to add? Is the King jettisoning the remainder of his contract and the hardwood for the green pastures of the NFL? Will he attempt to rap (This will inevitably lead to failure–don’t do it, ‘Bron!) or is he following former teammate Donyell Marshall to Philadelphia? The plot thickens…
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Tenacious! Relentless! Ferocious! Unrelenting work ethic. The Chairman of the Boards.
Those are the words that immediately come to mind when I think of one of the game’s true pioneers, Moses. He was the modern era’s trailblazer that went from ashy to classy, straight from high school to the pros, and blossomed into one of the greatest big men the game has ever seen. The time has now come to step into another chamber, the one reserved for the big boys who called the paint home. Read More »
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