In New York City, we have power house teams with big time players. In order to be put in the genre of power-house teams, you need to have someone with a high-enough basketball IQ on the sideline directing your every move, someone who knows where the mismatches are and when to take advantage of them.
The coaching position is vital to a team’s success, and without a coach with a good basketball IQ, your team is as good as an anvil stuck in quick sand. So who do you think are the top five coaches in NYC and why?
Aron Phillips’ interview with Scott Williams a.k.a. Lower Manhattan Classic’s own Tiger Hood!
The Nike Recess Federation is a league designed for the urban and creative professionals of NYC. It’s really cool because they do it NBA style. You have a full draft, general managers, franchise players, free agency, trades, an All-Star game, and if you make it to the finals,you will get to play in the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden. Read More »
You know your tournament is sick when people are watching the game from the 1 train, I'm actually surprised that people don't watch it from the tracks!
This is one place you do not want to be playing defense and fall, chances are if 2 hard 2 guard does it you’re probably going to have jokes cracked on you until you leave, and when you come back your going to be known as the guy who Adris made fall. Read More »
If you’re an aspiring designer looking to refine your technique, break into the industry, or rap with other up-and-coming (or more established) designers, Project Bluefoot is for you. If you’re a shiftless bum with no artistic talent but enjoy discussing the technical merits of athletic footwear and admiring the handiwork of others like myself, PBF is also for you.
The second installment of PBF’s Intelligent Design Competition was announced yesterday. Entrants will be asked to design a Nike Basketball shoe fit for royalty — King LeBron James, that is.
Nike BB Footwear Designers Jason “Alphaproject” Petrie and Ken Link will be judging the renderings.
To peep work from Bluefoot’s inaugural competition, click here.
For those of you in NYC, there’s no mistaking that it’s Fashion Week. So we wanted to extend y’all an invite for tonight’s event at 21 Mercer. Read More »
OHH…Philly, Philly! Philly where I’m from!Philly, Philly, Philly where I am from!
The Philly anthem by Eve (although not played) was displayed on the faces of hoop heads and fans everywhere at 10th & Olney. A couple hundred people filled around the court with love for the community and for the City of Brotherly Love. Cats were so deep on the baseline that you had to lure them with cheesesteak scent and 20 cent icees (”Water Ice” in Philly terminology). (MC) Ty the Mouth had to constantly tell people to move but nobody would budge. All cheesesteak jokes aside, an ice cream truck was literally selling 27 flavors of icees for cheap – hood cheap! Like DJ Khalid said, sometimes you have to do it for the hood! Read More »
