29/09 - Homicide in Raptors Training Camp The Raptors are bringing in a guard to training camp who was a star last year with the Bulls. The Yunnan Honghe Running Bulls. One of the more intriguing additions to this year's camp, which begins Oct.4 at Brock University in St. Catharines, is combo guard Corey (Homicide) Williams, who, if he makes the club, would be an NBA rookie at 28.
28/09 - Daryl 'MaJic' Dorsey signs a NBDL contract Daryl 'MaJic' Dorsey recently signed a NBDL contract, placing him in the player pool for the upcoming season. The former Rome Gladiator (WBA) All-Star point guard inked with the D-League last week, continuing his goal of climbing to the NBA. Dorsey, who was chosen as the WBA League MVP, led his Gladiators to the WBA Championship this past spring. ..read more..
27/09 - And1 Returns to New Zealand Basketball footwear and apparel company AND 1 is taking its worldwide playground basketball phenomenon known as the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour to both Europe and the Far East in the coming weeks... including two New Zealand appearances. ..read more..
26/09 - Interview with Hot Sauce - Part Two C.Y. Ellis: A lot of your New York fans are wondering when you're going to hit Rucker Park. Do you plan to play in the EBC or a similar competition any time soon? Hot Sauce: No time soon, but I'm willing to go whenever I get a chance. I'm working right now. Work comes first. Every summer, I've always been on tour. The only guys that get a chance to play at Rucker Park are the guys from New York when they have a one-week break in the summertime. ..read more..
21/09 - Crossover (2006) Hotsauce's new movie A naturally talented basketball player, Noah Cruise is determined to become a doctor using his basketball scholarship to UCLA pre-med, rather than succumb to the lure of former sports agent Vaughn and go for the NBA. His best friend, the buddy that took the fall for him and did the time for an assault charge, Tech, also an outstanding basketball player, has less lofty ambitions: he wants to get his GED and win an underground street ball game against his arrogant rival, Jewelz (Hotsauce). ..read more..
20/09 - Interview with Hot Sauce - Part One Try as we may to find it, there is no definition which quite covers the one-man phenomenon that took a game with a half-century of history and remixed it in a single summer. How could mere words describe someone who brings capacity crowds to their feet in anticipation of what he might do? Which adjectives could accurately describe a player who routinely crosses defenders off their feet and fans off their seats? ..read more..
15/09 - Bounce Magazine Issue #5 Check Bounce magazine... from the playground Issue #5, which has 2 seperate covers: One with Sebastian Telfair and his brother and one with Smush Parker. Now some of you might be wondering about the seriousness of the nickname on the playground. Page 24 features my "Street Dogma" column titled "POEtics" and check the how a name get's around in the city like the Smush Parker Bounce Cover... on newstands now. ..read more..
07/09 - Steve Burt Interview - Hoopsworld Steve Burtt is as cool as chain nets on the playground. And he's been there, done that- early years playing in New York, college ball at Iona, NBA journeyman (4 years in the NBA-drafted by Golden State in 1984, L.A. Clippers, Phoenix Suns, Washington Bullets, long before they were the Wizards, 4 years in Italy)- but more recently, Steve "All Day" Burtt is simply a coach. ..read more..
04/09 - Flashy footwork - SBI Tour Playground basketball goes big time now that Streetball has arrived. Funny thing happened when the Streetball Invasion Tour left dozens of adoring kids at the Evansville Basketball Academy and went looking for players and a game on Thursday evening at Bellemeade Park. There wasn't one. A brief rain shower left Hot Sauce, Alimoe, Shane Da' Dribbling Machine, High Riser, ATL and I'll Be Right Back staring at an empty lighted court from the road. ..read more..
