I’m stoked to post another interview with Brian McCormick who is the writer of the book “Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development.” His book was a huge resource to me last season while I was coaching and when I found out that he was releasing a second edition this summer I wanted [...]

Have you ever had friends try to tell you that basketball’s just a game? If you watch this video clip on Peace Players International with that friend then neither of you will ever think of basketball as just a game ever again. This powerful clip provides an overview of the war between the Protestants and [...]

First and foremost, let me apologize to my hoop heads for not hitting you off with summer fresh scented NBA action from Sin City. My boss, (we’ll call him Mr. Spacely) has been hating big time on the whole web surfing-at-the-office thing, saying how back in his day, they blogged on stone tablets and threw [...]

In the run-up to the draft, I talked about one point guard generally omitted from draft day discussions. I said he was a better shooter than Mike Conley, Jr. as good or better defender, and exhibited more heart than Conley because, unlike Conley, he was the primary-mover of his college team’s run through the regular [...]

The FIBA U19 WC preliminary round ended last Saturday, and as everyone expected, teams like France, Spain, and the United States dominated the field winning all of its games. The Eighth Finals round starts today with 12 teams battling for 8 spots in the quarter finals and upcoming stars such as Andrew Ogilvy, Michael Beasley, [...]

Thanks to 5 Star Hoops I was able to record an interview with Virginia Commonwealth’s head coach Anthony Grant. Coach Grant honed his skills as a key assistant to Billy Donovan at Marshall and Florida in helping to build their programs toward the back-to-back championship and this past season led the VCU Rams to the [...]

The person becomes the persona until the persona crushes the person.
On the basketball court he is a lyricist like no other. His flows resonate so deeply with his audience that they are left gasping at the end of his show. In between, syncopated beats go well beyond the set 16 bars, sometimes shortened to 12, [...]

This past Thursday night I headed towards Club Athletic Paulistano’s gym to watch the Brazilian U19 squad scrimmage against the Brazilian Pan American Games team in what was their last chance to have a friendly atmosphere on court. After a strong first quarter by the U19 squad (17-15), the more intense and calculated rhythm of [...]