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Archive for May, 2007

reader question!!

May 18, 2007

Whoo whoo #1! I got this from our man Kyle Bowden:
hey wuz gd man… i just started going to the gym early morning at 5am. I have a lil work out plan, but since Joey played with the pros overseas, i was wondering, what his work out schedule like?
To be honest…I don’t even know what [...]

oak hill all-star game

May 18, 2007

If you’ve picked up the new SLAM [Dirk/Shaq covers], you’ll see an advertisement about an Oak-Hill All-Star aka alumni game on June 30th @ the Bobcats’ arena in Charlotte. Players featured are: Melo, Josh Smith, Stack, Double D [DeSagana Diop], Marcus Williams, Rajon Rondo, Stephen Jackson, Steve Blake, Jeff McInnis, Ron Mercer, Rodney Strickland, Cory [...]

your fave 5 [no, not t-mobile]

May 18, 2007

I was going through the And1 and Ball 4 Real websites today and comparing the rosters and I figured I’d try to get some reader involvement going on.
Question: if these 2 teams were to play each other, what’s your rotation like? You can base it on tricks or real ball, but basically at the end [...]

grim reaper & the lakers no more

May 14, 2007

A week or two ago I had changed my msn name [yashzee[at]shaw[dot]ca for the inquiring minds] to “yash. RIP Smush Parker the Laker”…A lot of people don’t know this [or it appears they don't] but Lakers coaching and governing staff [i.e. the GM] have told Smush Parker he won’t be returning to the Lakers anymore. [...]

we reminisce: the skip tape

May 14, 2007

For those of us that have been following streetball for years, we know that And 1 Mixtape Volume 1, also dubbed “The Skip Tape”, is what brough streetball to the masses. The story behind the Skip Tape is that Ron “The Teacher” Naclerio, the infamous head coach of Cardozo High [Rafer's alma-mater], had sent And [...]

down with the king

May 11, 2007

As most people are aware – and as I put in my intro, I’m best friends with Joey “King Handles” Haywood. I’ve seen dude overcome adversity and take comments from tons of people: on the internet, in person and even in our hometown. Truth of it is that most people don’t realize how hard Joey’s [...]

the intro…

May 10, 2007

Well I’ve been contemplating doing a streetball-related blog for quite some time as I had been approached by someone in BC [BCSportsFanatic] to do one last summer, but I, uhh..”fell off” so to say. So I figured, with this summer showing some serious promise as far as the future of streetball goes and my “minor” [...]