A jump shot contested during a pick-up game. Three passes before a shot. Serious cuts to the rim and players using screens and rolling hard, all at 3:30 pm in the afternoon on a Monday. Welcome to Halle Park in Memphis, Tennessee - a place where serious pick-up games go on all day and all […]
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NCAA Mixtaping Tonight…the Perfect “Bounce” Executed
Mix*tap*ing (verb): To humiliate a defender or defenders with deceptive and sudden movements, leading, or not to a bucket.
Check the clip below and let me know if this qualifies as a “mixtape?” Is this a two for one here on the humiliation scale? Feel me on the simplicity…Give me a primo backdoor cut and the […]
Legends of the Playground - Kenny Smith “The One Man Fast Break”
As March Madness begins, the “one man fast break” is seeking an identity. Who will be the guard to create the easy buckets and lead his team to chip? I keep hearing Derrick Rose from Memphis is the money. If so, he should check New York’s own Ken “The Jet” Smith, one of the many […]




















