photo: Aaron Fleetwood taking flight.
Saturday, July 19
Its days like this that you wait all year for. Seventy five degrees, women all over, plenty of great hoops…I love my job.
I pick up where I left off yesterday as I catch the 1 pm game between the Home Team and the G-Bears. The Edmonton-based Bears are comprised […]

photo: Branko Popazivanov
For a basketball fan living in the Vancouver, B.C. area, the Dolphin Park Classic cannot come soon enough. This annual 4-on-4 tournament is Canada’s biggest and most storied outdoor basketball event. Since it was started 23 years ago by a group of local high school players from the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, the […]

At the end of a career high of 31 point and 5 assists game against the Lakers, Rafer Alston decided to top it off with a little playground ball handling against Sasha Vujacic. Skip went “compulsory skate” on him with a basic reverse-pivot-one-hand-between-the-legs into a quick 3 dribbles between the legs for a real light […]

Ball handling on asphalt is a great workout! The uneven, flawed cement conditions are hazards that create a degree of difficulty that smooth wood floors can’t simulate. The ball doesn’t come up right at times, but it will improve your yo-yo.

Leroy doesn’t let the leaves or uneven ground wreck his handle
With these conditions, […]

On Saturday September 8, Bounce and Dime Magazine will sponsor an all-day free basketball clinic at Crack is Wack Park on 2nd Avenue between E.127th St. and E. 128th Street in Harlem. Eligible participants are boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 17, or students who will be entering grades 6-11 in […]

Jump Ball @ Nike Swoosh
Nike Swoosh is an all-borough tournament that puts the best teams, divided into different age groups, against one another to see who can claim summer supremacy. The Queens edition takes place every weekend at Roy Wilkins Park. Bounce was at the playground to show some love to the sometimes forgotten borough.

The […]