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Basketball, broken down to its simplest compound, is about scoring more buckets than the team you’re playing against. The Semi-Automatic refers to players who leave bodies in their wake with their innate ability to get buckets. And no player does so with more wonder than the diminutive, 5′5″ Earl Boykins. Read More »

Big shout out to EBC Commish Greg Marius.

I can't think of what year this was, but I do remember people coming to the Cage the next day during open run talking about the sickest dunk they had ever seen. This clip is ill and epitomizes streetball 100%--the underdog going at the top dog, or at least the man who revamped the dunk in the new millennium. Just peep the clip!

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During this holiday season, I’ll be dipping into the archives to offer up some updated goodies in the form of some of the most delectable “The Playground Gave Us…” joints from ‘08.

Before he reached 5,000 points and 2,500 assists faster than anyone in NBA history except The Big O, the incomparable Mr. Oscar Robertson, and prior to the Nike commercials that raved about his “skeeels”, the playgrounds of the Windy City knew him as “Tim Bug.” Read More »