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Friday, 06 January 2006 |
 Where have all the good handles gone? No I don’t mean players with skills with the pill, I mean nicknames. In today’s era in the NBA, people have gotten quite lazy with their nicknames. This wasn’t always the case – dudes used to have creative and unique handles, a legacy that AND 1 is keeping but the NBA is not.
Today’s league is full of boring, uncreative nicknames where the players’ initials, jersey number or shortened name is used as a nickname. The Raptors are as guilty as anyone of this – CB4, MoPete, Hoffa, Charlie V – boring, boring, boring & boring once again. Thank god for Chuck Swirtsky, who coined Matt Bonner the Red Rocket – at least he didn’t name him MaBo. The top stars of the league also have dull monikers – T Mac, D-Wade, KG, A.I., Melo – blah, blah, blah. Now Shawn Marion’s nickname – The Matrix, due to his time & space altering moves – now that is a throwback nickname... |
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Thursday, 05 January 2006 |
 His nickname was “The Wizard.â€
“That was his handle because he had a crossover like a magician,â€
says Bobby Gonzalez, God Shammgod’s friend and former coach at Providence
College. That’s the same crossover that God taught to Kobe Bryant on a summer
AAU squad in 1994. Those are the same handles that took 10-seed Providence to
the Elite 8 in 1997. Shammgod’s ball-handling skills and ability to distribute
the rock made him one of the best pure point guards in the country, and according
to some, maybe even beyond that.
“I think he might have the best handle in the world,†says Ron Artest,
Shammgod’s teammate at LaSalle Academy during Shammgod’s junior and
senior year of high school. “I don’t know anybody who ever had a better
handle than Shammgod.†|
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Sunday, 01 January 2006 |
 The Playgroundz has returned after a serious accident that occured on October 10th, 2005. The data center that stored and hosted all of our files, including videos, articles, images, content, and statistics, burned to the ground in a fire. There was nothing that could have been done to prevent the fire. The sad thing was, our information was not backed-up. You can be sure that we will be ready for this once in a lifetime event, if in fact, it happens again. Please bare with us while we attempt to restore the site as much as possible to its former state. It will take some time, but eventually The Playgroundz will get back to where it used to be.
The fans and the visitors fuel the site. In order for us to regroup, we need your help. Spread the word that we are officially back. When we gather more visitors, our status in search engines wil be boosted. This will lead to more visitors. These new visitors will click on the links sponsored by Google. This will generate revenue that is used directly to keep the site running and acquire more space. The more space, the more videos, articles, and news. These links keep us running. Click "read more" for more information on what we are currently working on... |
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 |
 "Ball Don’t Lie" is the story of Sticky, a foster kid from Southern California
whose life has been anything but easy. But his great equalizer is that he can ball - you can’t
help but immediately compare Sticky to B-Rabbit, Eminem’s character in
in “8 Mile.†And like Rabbit, Sticky’s gift is the only thing
that can potentially give him a better life. But it’s up to Sticky to
make it happen.
There’s really nothing that bothers us more than when someone who doesn’t
know ball, who’s never played ball, tries to talk or write like a player
would. We can always see right through it. De la Pena played Division I ball
at Pacific University, and one of his greatest strengths in telling Sticky’s
story is that the game action and the dialogue among the characters feels on
point.... |
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Sunday, 04 December 2005 |
 It’s been four years since the Grizzlies skipped town. For Vancouver, it was an experiment that failed miserably. Stevie Franchise punked the city before he got drafted, and Big Country never lost enough weight. Looking back, Brian Winters and Stu Jackson never had a chance. Today, it’s a forgotten city among NBA heads. Maybe the L shouldn’t have come here in the first place. Taxes are too high, and the city’s lifeblood is rooted in hockey. But every ending paves the way for a new beginning.
It’s Saturday morning in April on the west coast of Canada, and the winter hangover is in full effect. It’s gray outside, and rain drips from the sky. It’s 6 degrees Celsius, and there’s a piercing chill in the air. Mohammed Wenn saunters in the Metrotown Mall in Burnaby, a Vancouver suburb. He’s dressed in gray jeans and a dark blue San Diego Chargers jacket. A Chargers cap rests on his head, tilted slightly to the left... |
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Sunday, 04 December 2005 |
 AND 1 Streetball will prove to be an impressive entry for Ubisoft into the sports video game market,†said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing for Ubisoft North America. “Working very closely with the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour players, we captured the essence of authentic street basketball and will bring a completely new and innovative approach to the basketball game genre.â€
About AND 1 Streetball:
With unprecedented depth, freedom and control, AND 1 Streetball features the entire roster of sensational AND 1 Mix Tape Tour players such as AO, The Professor, Spyda and Pharmacist – each with their signature moves and look. AND 1 Streetball also gives you the power to create your own player and your own moves – so YOU can become the next streetball phenomenon... |
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