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Bobbito’s Way
Photo by Atiba Jefferson Originally published in SLAM Streetball 2 You gotta respect the way Bobbito Garcia has navigated his way through the game. From DJing a classic hip-hop radio show, The Stetch...
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Playground Basketball is Dead? Hardly
(This is a response to ESPN’s recent feature pronouncing playground ball dead. You can also read Bobbito’s new piece on the playground’s influence on the NBA right here.—Ed.) Last week, ESPN ran an...
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Back to the Block
(This piece appears in SLAM 181. You can also read Bobbito’s rebuttal to ESPN’s recent article pronouncing playground basketball dead right here.—Ed.) June 15 was the day the Spurs made “Ice Man” and...
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Uptown Funk
1950. Harlem. Fourth grader Bob McCullough, a pre-teen gang member of the Politicians, was raiding places at lunchtime, getting in fights every day and got arrested. His Saint Phillips Community Center...
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The Legend of Pearl
This past weekend, I learned that Dwayne “Pearl” Washington had a brain tumor relapse. Washington was my favorite guard to watch in the early 1980s when I was a teenager. The news had my mind spinning,...
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