Yo this is your boy J-Mike.  Much love for all y'all players out from the street of urban legend.  So holla.  -  j-mikeouttakes

Just a comment the Paul "Snake" Atkins was a very good urban player.  However there has been better players out of Stamford (CT).  Just to name a few Enoch Gainer one of the best players never to play in the NBA.  The other player Alvin "Skinner" Frederick.  Skinner took the MVP at the Ruckers open division one year.  Do your research and let me know.  I played against all three.  -  wilsow

Nice web site.  I grew up in the 60's, when dope ruled the streets.  Coming from the west side of Manhattan's Douglas Projects,  I remember a guy name Ronnie Ryder a.k.a. Black Pearl.  I used to go down to 99 Street Park behind P.S. 163 and watch him run the floor.  It was always Ronnie and Reggie Carter.  Growing up they where the guys I looked up to as far as playing ball went.  What ever happened to him?  I also remember the GOAT too.  At the time he wasn't playing ball that much but was always at the park.  This was in the early 70's. -  sharkless

   Taking us back to the hood for streetball .. yeah ..
   Carlton Green was the man for me .. he had game .. baby .. up in
   the Colonel Park .. I seen him play ..
   I was in love with Carlton Green .. game ..
   I will give a shout-out to Butch Lee ..
   thanks for the memories ..
   -  nickyant216

I was once in a gym in East New York watching some games.  The best team in the league had a game at 4 o'clock that day, and everyone assumed they would please their crowd and destroy the other team.  When I saw the other team, I almost left the gym.  Thank God I didn't.  This tiny white kid, he must have been 5'4" or so, led his team into the all-black gym.  The game started and immediately I knew this was gonna be a close game.  This kid, who I later found out was named Petey D (the call him P Diddy), took the opening tip just near half court.  The 6 foot 2 guard from the other team approached him.  Pete dribbled left, and crossed back over right, watching the defender fall face first onto the ground.  He then in-and-outted another kid, WHO ALSO DROPPED, only to finish with an and one clap on a third defender.  The whole gym and other team went crazy!!  Pete went on to finish with 43 points, although his team lost in OT.  I will never ever forget this day.  -  Jonathan, Brooklyn, NY

I know this guy from Baltimore named Lefty who once scored 45 on John Stockton in a b-ball tourney in 1983 while Stockton was at Gonzaga.  I didn't believe it until his wedding day when his boys from the army retold the story the same way he did.  This man also taught Juan Dixon how to shoot.  -  anonymous

I got a one for you.  He never played in any of the streetball tournaments.  Not because he couldn't but because he didn't want too.  His main partner was D-Black a.k.a. THE BLACK STALLION.  He was about 5'9" and could jump out the gym.  His handle was crazy and his passes were ridiculous.  He grew up in the Bronx.  I wanted to be like this brother so bad.  I just wanted to shout him out.  So Fred a.k.a. Fred Ice big up to you.  You are definitely one who I looked up to.  - Butta

1996, Lower East Side, The Cage Tournament on East Broadway. Two the Hole, Inc. versus a crew from the L.E.S.  The crew from the L.E.S. has a stacked crew of cats from the L.E.S., one of which is the actor Leon (5 Heartbeats, Above the Rim, Waiting to Exhale, etc...)  Cats don't remember that he can really ball, played college ball at LMU out in Cali in the 80's.  Well he got matched up against Mike Campbell (Nike Battlegrounds champ ‘03).  Mike is playing a humble game, just making jump shots, nothing too aggressive.  Leon got the battery put in his back cause some chicks on the sideline recognized him and started cheering for him.  So now he's really trying to go at Mike.  Two the Hole, Inc.'s offense was always ISO's and high screens cause there was always a mismatch, and in this case, Leon was the "weakest link".  Two the Hole, Inc., ran about 8 ISO plays in a row at Leon, each one thru Mike Campbell.  Leon's team told him that Mike couldn't dribble, so just over play him so he can't get his jumps hot off.  Foolish mortals. Mike got a yoyo for a handle, so he starts blending Leon damn near every trip.  It started to look like a kid against a grown man, in favor of Mike Campbell. After about 5 buckets in a row, the bench for Two the Hole, Inc. started singing "I've got nothing but love for you" (song made famous from the movie "The 5 Heatbeats" in which Leon had a starring role!)  Hilarious!!  -   Twotheholeinc, Brooklyn, New York

1996, Tillary Park, Kenny's Kings versus some other crew.  It's a 12 o'clock game in July, and those of us familiar with Tillary know that that is the perfect place to catch a heatstroke cause there are no trees or breeze, just straight heat.  Yet the park is packed cause Kenny' Kings is playing and the leading performer was Boogs.  The other crew weren't slouches, but their featured player was Timothy Gittens a.k.a. Headache. Headache arrived late to the game, so he didn't start, but as soon as he comes into the game, his team starts yelling, telling him to bust Boogs ass, he ain't nobody, etc,, etc. Boogs got angry and started talking shit back to the bench, totally disregarding Headache,  Boog's is telling them watch what I do to your man, watch!  First trip up the court, Headache tries to hit Boogs with an in and out, Boogs rips him and makes the pass for an uncontested lay-up by Seldon Jefferson (West Virginia).  The next trip Headache tries it again, but I guess he was thinking too much cause he lost the ball off of his foot.  The crowd is starting to heckle Headache now, not only was he talking noise, but he's talking noise to Boogs who lived 3 blocks from Tillary!  So now Boogs is starting to pick him apart, shaking him up, ripping him, deflecting his passes, totally destroying this dude, so the other crew decides that they're going to press, bad move.  Boogs beats the press single handedly but instead of going for the lay-up, he pulls the ball out to wait for who else, Headache.  Headache starts to defend him while Boogs is dribbling.  Boogs fakes a pass behind Headaches back, then cuffs the ball into his palm and places the ball in between his shoulder blades so it looks like he actually made the pass because the ball isn't in his hands.  Headache is totally confused, so he turns towards his team to see where the ball is, the crowd went ballistic!  Boogs drops the ball from between his shoulder blades and throws an alley-oop to Braheen Cotton (Beezo) for a dunk on the baseline.  This all occurred in the first half of the game, and the only reason I make it a point to mention that is because your man Headache chumped out and left before the second half started, talking bout he couldn't get a fair game at Tillary and that the refs were cheating for Boogs. Yeah, we know.....  -  Twotheholeinc, Brooklyn, New York

I've seen one of the best voices to come out of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn give up singing to become one of the best coaches in the nation Ted Gustus.  -  dstreet2, St. Stephen, SC