Views : 161,851
Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Aug 24, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.961 (54/5,422 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-17T21:48:43.804821Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Street ball is the essence. Referees, coaches and drunk fans only slow the game down.
No hack a shack on the black top. Truly only playing for the love. The game at its purest.
Think back to those games you played as a kid, building lifelong friendships and staying out till dark not caring you gon' be in trouble with moms.
The world only thinks they know the greatest rapper of all time, the fastest running back ever, the best dunker who ever lived... For every kid who defys poverty to make it in the professional world, there's a hundred you never heard of. A thousand you'll never read about.
Just ask the players themselves. Every one got a story about the kid from their neighborhood who was 10 times better than they were but never made it.
That's why the inspiration was coming from and1. That's were the freedom and the creativity was. And the joy and the love. Just look what it did to that scrawny kid from outside of Portland. Turned him into the Professor
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Most of these ballers competed in pro leagues before or after their And1 tenure.
Like The Professor said, they were talented players, but something was holding them back (work ethics, passion, injuries, etc.)
Lonnie Harrell played three solid years in the G-League (12.3 PPG), Aaron Owens (11.6 PPG), Rafer Alston hang with the men in the show... They could play.
But, to put things in perspective, Darius Johnson-Odom averaged 22.1 PPG in the G-League!
The Professor played in the CBA (4.5 PPG), Philip "Hot Sauce" Champion competed three years in the ABA.
They could play!
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Professor, I think you said it well... you guys proved that you could play against NBA players by actually doing so. I believe that Half Man's challenge wasn't responded to by NBA players because they were perhaps afraid... nothing to gain and everything to lose in regards to reputation. And Half Man also had a good point regarding IS, BD, and their injuries... awesome video.
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Just looking at these great And1 ballers in one video made my day and reminded me of the days where the only thing that I could think of was going out to play basketball. I am from Mexico City and back in the day I really struggled to get some of their Mix tapes, but once I had them I broke a lot of things in my house while trying to mimic their moves. For me they are at the same level as NBA players, because at the end of the day we are talking about putting on a show and And1 Mixtapes where more entertainig
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The NBA had its own analysis of the competition. They didn't like seeing the soon-to-be loss of fans going to see A1. They knew the level of talent coming from A1 was too good they didn't want to lose props. They hired a few guys from A1 to play in the NBA. They saw the future close up by doing this so they devised a plan to break up A1.
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@QUiNTiNBANKS
8 months ago
Iman shuphert on dancing with the stars is crazy
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