HOT SAUCE
Real Name: Philip Champion
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Born: June 16th 1976
Height: 6'1
Position: Guard
Affiliations: And1, Killer Crossover Tour

Filmography: And1 Mixtape 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 And1 Ball Access, And1 Global Invasion, Streetball Season 1, Streetball Season 2, YPA War 2

06/10/05 - Interview with Hot Sauce - Part Three
C.Y. Ellis: Who would you say have been some of your toughest opponents? Mark Edwards: There's no streetball player that can say, in any of our games that we've done, that have played against Hot Sauce and scored twenty points on him. I've got all the videotapes. ..read more..

26/09/05 - 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. ..read more..

21/09/05 - 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, ..read more..

20/09/05 - 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? ..read more..

Interview
Hot Sauce is one of the most popular streetball players on the planet. His dribbling and moves are sick. Few ballers on earth are as entertaining as Hot Sauce when he's got the basketball. Hot Sauce and InsideHoops.com editor Jeff Lenchiner sat down together in Trenton, New Jersey this summer at the end of the 2003 And1 mixtape tour for an exclusive interview. ..read more..

Article
His name is Philip Champion, and he is about to change the world. But I bet you don't even know who he is. You've probably seen him on TV once or twice, seen him with a The Professor, seen him with his friends. But you still don't know. You still don't know his skills, his thoughts or his handles. So while I try to break your ankles with a killer crossover of my own prose, try to figure out who Philip Champion is before reading the next sentence. His name is Hot Sauce, and he is about to change the NBA. ..read more..

Article
One of the stars of the league, Philip Champion, is also known as 'Hot Sauce.' Not only does he have probably the best nickname in the world, but he also has mad street-ballin' skills. The fact that he had to be bailed out of jail to join the league only increases his appeal. As quoted on an And1 Web site, "If Hot Sauce keeps making unique moves like 'The Hypnotizer,' 'The Boomerang,' 'The Hurricane' and 'The Flinstone Shuffle' he will be the most known streetballer since Skip To My Lou." ..read more..

Article
If you think streetball is fake, if you think it's merely Harlem Globetrotter hocus-pocus played to a hip-hop backbeat rather than "Sweet Georgia Brown," then stop Philip Champion on the street some time and ask to 'D' him up. He'll happily pull your sweatband over your eyes, bounce the ball off your noggin and tell you how real it is as he dribbles by you. ..read more..

Article
I was in Atlanta looking for a playground story when I ran into the one that would dominate the next half-decade. Philip 'Hot Sauce' Champion was then at the very beginning of a career that would help to redefine basketball's marketability. It was December of 2000 and we stood inside Atlanta's Run N' Shoot, a series of indoor courts situated among the pine trees and Black neighborhoods on the city's southwest side. The anticipation to see Hot Sauce had been building for hours; the scene began to resemble a party where the guest of honor had not yet arrived. ..read more..