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The annual Nike Extravaganza took place this past weekend and with it
two marquee matchups between some great teams. Nationally ranked Taft
high school took on nationally ranked St Patricks of New Jersey. The
game was close until the 3rd quarter came into play and St Pats showed
why they are a top 3 team nationally. Kyrie Irving put up 14 points in
the first quarter alone to finish with 24 and 9 assists. Mike Gilchrist
put up 22 pts with 13 rebounds and Bryce Jones led the way for Taft
with 18.… Continue

We have gotten a ton of requests for strength and conditioning workouts, and the obvious question of "who do I talk to in order to play college ball?". During our time going to event's we don't just film. We actually network with people there so that we can provide you the basketball player and student with information on how to get better and how to get where you need to go. At the Hoophall classic we met up with Mike Brown of Hoopconnecti… Continue

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We are out here at the Hoophallclassic in Springfield, Ma. So far we've had an interesting time in Springfield. Here's a little recap of how our 1 day has gone thus far.

We flew to Springfield on Friday leaving at 11am and getting here at 11.35pm. It was a very long and depressing flight, especially the flight from Chicago to Hartford.

Our plane was just about to undock and head up to the sky when we found out that a connecting flight had just arrived so we needed to wait for the pa… Continue

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The 2009 Mission Prep Christmas Classic held in San Luis Obispo on California's Central Coast took part Dec. 17-22. This year's field wasn't as highly touted as the last couple of years but that can mainly be blamed on our economic standpoint more than anything else. However there was still some good basketball to be seen.

Teams that came out this… Continue

As you already know Jordan Hamilton is a freshman at Texas University. Did you know he has a little brother named Isaac who is considered the top freshman in California? Let alone one of the top freshman in the country?

Isaac plays basketball at Crenchsaw High School in Los Angeles, Ca and in his first game put up 27 points with 6 assists and 4 rebounds. Our good friend Mgrads has been chronicling Isaac's and his younger bro Daniel's lives so that we can witness a sort of hoop dreams type menta… Continue