Last week I got the opportunity to meet and greet a dunking legend in Kadour Ziami and blogged it, someone said the Kadour is a great dunker but not the worlds greatest dunker. Read More »

Make sure you have a helmet with a chin strap on for this one, Shot out to hoopmixtape.com!

In light of the Team Flight Brother’s post I realized that there are a lot of guys out there who work on there dunks more than there game, I was one of those until about 3 years ago when a certain streetball legend from the Lower East Side slapped me in the back of my head and told me to meet him at Houston Street to workout at 10 in the morning. (Bob I’m talking about Magic). Read More »

Steve Burtt Jr. scored 29 points to lead Gold’s Gym.

It might’ve been the Q.B. fan screaming, “You ain’t that nice. You gon’ get it tonight,” as loud as he could at NBA guard Mike James. It could’ve been watching brothers Mike and Anthony Glover talk trash as they played on opposite teams. Or maybe it was Keon Lawrence getting a nasty cut above his right eye and returning just moments later.

I don’t know what exactly caused me to get goosebumps at Pro City Thursday night. But the environment during the first half of the match up between unbeatens PDG Queensbridge and Gold’s Gym was as electric as any I’ve experienced in my two years at Bounce.

With the weight of Brooklyn on its shoulders, Gold’s Gym knocked off the defending champs, 113-108. Read More »

Miguel Millien, seen here last summer at West 4th, dropped 18 points for Pick & Roll.

Kenny Graham’s orange and purple West 4th Street tournament banner hung along the East side fence Sunday afternoon as the sun shone brightly over the handballers in the background. On the south side of the park, women, as customary, occupied the 10 or so seats behind the basket and people dressed in all different styles crowded up against the West-side fence to catch a glimpse of this perennial warm-weather exhibition. The 32nd West 4th Street tournament is officially underway, marking the beginning of another New York City basketball summer that promises to be full of highlights and heroics. Read More »

The D&D Invitational Tournament is scheduled to begin its 13th season of play with defending champ TNP taking on the JFK Dunkin’ Allstars Saturday at 12 p.m.

Immediately following, Soul in the Hole star Ed “Booger” Smith will lead his team against former St. John’s guard Ryan “Special FX” Williams and Bayside’s All Stars.

In the third game, scheduled for around 3 p.m., Blax Ballers will face Come Wit It. Read More »