You want pure entertaining basketball??? Watch AND1 tour!!!

[lebomb]

......that shit is crazy off the hook entertaining.....too bad all those fools are NBA rejects and when faced with playing fundamentally sound basketball like THE SPURS......they suck ass. Much like the Suns, and Mavericks. :depressed

[Don Quixote]

and1 is everything that is wrong with American basketball. I won't be giving my $$ to watch those tattooed thugs.

[dickface]

and1 is everything that is wrong with American basketball. I won't be giving my $$ to watch those tattooed thugs.

Here is the most popular And1 player -

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/420/graysonboucherjpgw300h4qj5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

what a tatooed thug :rolleyes

[kontrolheat]

and1 is everything that is wrong with American basketball. I won't be giving my $$ to watch those tattooed thugs.
how do u know there thugs is it cuz they are black

[dg7md]

and1 is everything that is wrong with American basketball. I won't be giving my $$ to watch those tattooed thugs.

Absolutely true, I agree 100 percent.

And1 is the rap generation's Harlem Globetrotters. I remember once there was an And1 showing and it was canceled because of some guys bringing guns to the show. :lol

[dickface]

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/420/graysonboucherjpgw300h4qj5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

AGAIN

Grayson Boucher, aka "The Professor" - The most popular player in the history of the And1 tour...

What a gangsta thug! :rolleyes

[dg7md]

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/420/graysonboucherjpgw300h4qj5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

AGAIN

Grayson Boucher, aka "The Professor" - The most popular player in the history of the And1 tour...

What a gangsta thug! :rolleyes

One guy. He's only really popular because he's like the only white guy there!

[kontrolheat]

mian event araon owens sure aint thugs

[Obstructed_View]

mian event araon owens sure aint thugs
Is that English?

[kontrolheat]

Is that English?
my bad main event and aaron owens

[dickface]

One guy. He's only really popular because he's like the only white guy there!

So name a "thug" on the And1 tour then. Or do you not even know what the hell you're talking about, and you're just making judgements on something that you've never taken the time to learn about?

And1 Ball is no different than Arena Football - it's a gimmicky version of the original sport where the more "exciting" and "flashy" parts of the game are emphasized in order to draw a crowd. Is anyone calling Arena Football a bunch of "tatooed thugs"?

[~~Ice Man 2000~~]

Of course not because they make the black players wear helmets silly. [/scarcasm]

[Switchman]

Thugs or not they are cool to watch every once in a while if you like the game of basketball. To see the possibilities of what people can do with a basketball is pretty cool.

[kontrolheat]

^^^^^^^^ LIKE THIS http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chrisneo/720reduced3lf.gif

[DOMINATOR]

ill watch them every once in awhile but it sure is annoying to play with people that try to do that crap or think they are great players. can't stand playing pickup games with and1 wanna bes on my team.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Anyone who calls them "thugs" is either a hick or elderly.

[Strike]

Bunch of losers who wouldn't be able to hack it in the NBA.

Are they even good enough "basketball" players for the NBDL?

[dirk4mvp]

Bunch of losers who wouldn't be able to hack it in the NBA.

Are they even good enough "basketball" players for the NBDL?


Who said they want to play in the nba? Just a bunch of guys playing to entertain a crowd and have fun.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Who said they want to play in the nba? Just a bunch of guys playing to entertain a crowd and have fun.

D4M's right.

Two summers ago, I got to cover the And1 event in San Antonio and I remember talking with a couple of the guys and more than one said they knew they weren't making the NBA and were there to entertain. I remember Spyda specifically.

One guy was (he wasn't on the And1 team, he was on the traveling team) trying to get into the league, though.

[Manu Pacquiao]

Who said they want to play in the nba? Just a bunch of guys playing to entertain a crowd and have fun.


Yeah, sure. Playing in the NBA is never on their minds.
Their "Streetball God" Rafer Alston aka Skip to my Lou was their greatest player ever and he went to the NBA. There he only managed to be an average back up PG at best.

And the Globetrotters played to entertain, but they dont travel, carry the ball and arent such cocky "ballerz".

[dirk4mvp]

Yeah, sure. Playing in the NBA is never on their minds.
Their "Streetball God" Rafer Alston aka Skip to my Lou was their greatest player ever and he went to the NBA. There he only managed to be an average back up PG at best.

And the Globetrotters played to entertain, but they dont travel, carry the ball and arent such cocky "ballerz".


Well I just watched a And 1 episode and A.O. said it best. No NBA for me, streetball is my job. Where else can you play ball like a fool and get payed for it?

[Manu Pacquiao]

Thanks, but no thanks. I can maybe watch a couple of minutes of AND1 dribbling highlights but Id rather watch a full WNBA game than a full game of "StreetBallaz".

It gets corny real quick.

[lebomb]

Who said they want to play in the nba? Just a bunch of guys playing to entertain a crowd and have fun.


Hence the reason for my topic :rolleyes


The NBA is about championships.....with entertainment to wow the crowd possible.

If all NBA teams played like AND1....ratings would go through the roof, but it would NOT be real basketball. :nope

[lebomb]

Anyone who calls them "thugs" is either a hick or elderly.

Im black and some of those fools are thugs......they way they talk and act proves it. Sorry, but dude was correct to a point.
:dramaquee

[Don Quixote]

Maybe I overstated my case by suggesting that the And1 troupe were all tattooed thugs. Clearly they are not, although some of them are. Don't take it as a racial slur -- I equally despise white guys and Mexicans who act like they're from the projects. And New Orleans is crawling with them.

My real concern is the "streetball" marketing, and the tattooed thugs that really do show up for these things. I'll never go to one of these things.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Maybe I overstated my case by suggesting that the And1 troupe were all tattooed thugs. So we can now assume 90% of the tatooed NBA players are thugs as well right? Can't recall the last time I heard of an And1 player being arrested on gun charges, but I can name quite a few NBA players.

[TheSanityAnnex]

[QUOTE=Don Quixote

My real concern is the "streetball" marketing, [/QUOTE]What is so concerning?

[NBA Junkie]

Well I just watched a And 1 episode and A.O. said it best. No NBA for me, streetball is my job. Where else can you play ball like a fool and get payed for it?

Golden State?

[~~Ice Man 2000~~]

Im black and some of those fools are thugs......they way they talk and act proves it. Sorry, but dude was correct to a point.
:dramaqueeWhat the hell do you call a thug? Snatching old lady's purses=speaking broken English and carrying the ball

[Don Quixote]

So we can now assume 90% of the tatooed NBA players are thugs as well right? Can't recall the last time I heard of an And1 player being arrested on gun charges, but I can name quite a few NBA players.

Wow, you ...completely missed my point. :rolleyes Can't reason with some people, I suppose.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Reason? You've yet to state a reason. I asked you what your "concerns" were with streetball marketing, you failed to reply.

[SRJ]

Well I just watched a And 1 episode and A.O. said it best. No NBA for me, streetball is my job. Where else can you play ball like a fool and get payed for it?


Golden State?

:lol

[dirk4mvp]

Golden State?


:lol

[resistanze]

and1 is everything that is wrong with American basketball. I won't be giving my $$ to watch those tattooed thugs.

It never ceases to amaze me how people automatically assume that conservative types are racist, sexist, homophobe, anti-environment (for dirty water, dirty air, etc.), etc.? I assure you, as a student at a leading evangelical institution, that these traits do not characterize any of us, faculty or students. Nor does it characterize any of us "paleo-cons" (I guess, the counterpart to a neo-con, whatever those are). But it does, sometimes, annoy us that people think we're these bad and evil people.


I'm glad to see you can identify the trouble with ignorant generalizations in some instances....BIBLE FREAK :smokin

[ArgSpursFan]

and1 is everything that is wrong with American basketball. I won't be giving my $$ to watch those tattooed thugs.

Damn right.If kids are watching that shit on T.V. I can see more and more International players coming to the NBA in the future.