Basketball was first invented by Dr.
James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Originally, the game was
found to fill the time students on a long winter in New England. And after the
patented YMCA, the sport is directly transformed into a popular sport all over
the world. In its development, in a basketball game that many players who make
the rules of the game itself. One of them is street ball. The sport is often
referred to as basketball played outside the room or pool. Street ball is
derived from the street and basketball, which means the street basketball.
Despite having nearly the same
equation, but street ball has the distinction that makes this taste for street
ball players to play basketball. This game had something special, which is about
the love (love) and rewards (respect) it is intended for both the players and
the surroundings nearby.
Street ball is one way to play
basketball, but in the play, the soul (soul) as we entered in that game.
Sometimes these games tend to be hard. So it was not familiar to the player’s street
ball get serious injuries other than that the players also have street ball
trick or style in which it is to be used to outwit opponents and through it so
that in the end he won the primary purpose of playing street ball that is
getting an award from the audience. In the world of street
ball, usually the players have nicknames or as known as where the name gained recognition from the
audience and viewers also gave that name, so it seems though that name is the soul of the street
ball players. If the reference from its history, Streetball began widespread
nearly sixty years that lal, precisely in 1946. Employees of the City of New
York parks named Holcomber Rucker, better known as Mr. Rucker, a basketball
tournament started which aims at making the means of activities for young
people from the neighborhood where he lived. There, the level of crime is very
tingggi for the which the tournament is held. So they do positive activities.
The Court derives its name because of the Holcombe Rucker Park, located at 155
street and eighth Avenue. And that's when the tournament begins and streetball
coincide in the summer.
State of the field at that very
moment and memperhatinkan that the players haven't learned style-style so that
they know the only place the ball into the hoop. With keterbatasaan, the birth
of the idiosyncrasies of the game playing streetball, i.e. with powerful dank
eras. It also spawned new tricks so more animate games streetball.
At first this tournament only as village
tournament, but the hose a few moments of this tournament is heard by many
people, so that initially only dozens, peneontonya increased by hundreds, even
thousands. And the audience was very enthusiastic. In this tournament, the
audience can see the world's best players didn't play in the professional
League. Examples of course Earl "The Goat" Mnigault, Pee Wee
Kirkland, and Joe "The Destroyer" Hammond. And they are not inferior
to the professional League players.
Play street ball players predecessors
with care so that fear to play with whoever his opponent they will face. In
1982, a rapper from Harlem named Greg Marius, had the idea of combining with street
ball game accompanied by the music of hip-hop. This event involves the best
streetballers precisely held at 155 street and eighth Avenue or Rucker park.
In addition in Dyckman held a
tournament named EBC (Entertainers Basketball Classic) that still continues to
this day. With this event, a new hope arises for those of African Americans,
where they had a goal to become a hip-hop star known. During the 90s, the
arising generation of streetball. Elements of Hip Hop into the flow of it.
Examples like Tyron "Alimoe" Evans, Tim "Headeache"
Gittens, Stephon marbury, "Strarbury" Larry "The Bone
Collector" William pamain-pamain, and others.
This is the generation that made the streetball
experiencing globalization. A new era started when the Aston streetball made at
Rucker park, and showed his game. She makes the audience dazzled to see the
action. Elements of entertainment there is trust in each game. Then the coaches
have an idea Naclerio to record it and handed the tape to the offices of SLAM
Magazine. Then submitted to disan manufacturer AND1. After viewing the video
tape and then he made the title "Street" video and circulate it named
AND1 Mix tape vol. 1 which serves as media promotion shoes
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