Orchard Beach
My 3rd day in the Big Apple was very interesting. I had the Hoops In The Sun All Star Game in red on my schedule. I went out of my hotel with my beach pack: white T-Shirt and big bottle of cold water. Everybody told me that the sun steaks there so I wanted […]

(l-r): A victorious Randy Cruz, Kemba “EZ Pass” Walker, and Joe Cruz Jr.
Young CEO’s Joe and Randy Cruz brought a Hoops In The Sun All-Star squad up to Wash-Heights to battle Commissioners Kenny Stevens and Ralph Peña’s Dyckman Select team. They brought out the best players from each respective tournament with H.I.T.S. reppin’ K1X and […]

Mookie taking a free-throw at the Cage. Photo: Trevor Kapp
West 4th
The match-up Sunday at West 4th (3rd St., 6th Ave.) between John “Mookie” Thomas of Diamond and Speedy Williams of United Brooklyn was expected to be one of the better point guard battles of the summer. The game was also being played to decide who […]

When your moniker is a synonym for police code 187 (Homicide), it’s expected that everyone wants a piece of you. So was the case yesterday at Nike Pro City when United Brooklyn starring Corey “Homicide” Williams took on Gold’s Gym’s Smush Parker. Apparently there was some friendly trash talk between the two players’ respective camps […]

Hoops In The Sun at Orchard Beach is starting to resemble the good ol’ ’80s NBA shoot-outs between the high scoring Nuggets and Spurs.
Last week, R2K’s Dwight Hardy scored 54 vs Money Train.
This week, Bingo’s All-Star rookie “The Cab Driver” dropped 65 on PR Pride, 43 in the second half! The point total eclipsed […]