Training – Up Your Game

As almost everyone on the internet now owns a Smartphone, the rise of mobile applications is at its peak. These smart applications have become a huge part of our lives and provide us with amazing solutions to many life’s smaller problems.  Mobile applications can be used for educational purposes, to get rid of our boredom, … Continue reading “8 Powerful Basketball Training Apps To Up Your Game!”

A well designed and well built basketball court can have a wide price range. The minimum price tag for an outdoor court seems to be in the $5 500.00 area however if you were to do most of the work yourself you may be able to cut that down a bit.  The type of material … Continue reading “How Much Does it Cost to Build Your Own Basketball Court”

Growing up I often marveled in my gym class as my grade school teacher would wheel out the ball-cart filled with 20 plus wonderfully, round, orange, bouncing basketballs all of the same types of basketball, same size, look and feel as well. Even at that young age I loved basketball. What made it even cooler … Continue reading “Types of Basketballs and Where to Use Them”

Layups are the easiest shot to make and the most freakishly frustrating one to miss. They are the bane of coaches everywhere on earth. Picture this! It’s the final minutes of the game. Your on a breakaway with three opposing players hot on your heels. You can smell the sweat pouring off them as they … Continue reading “The Layup – The Most Important Move in Basketball”

Improving passing in basketball comes down to understanding the basics of a pass. To understanding the rudimentary pieces that go into completing a successful pass and to knowing those techniques inside and out. Basketball is a multifaceted game with so many areas of skill needed to truly be a good player, but most areas pale … Continue reading “How to Improve Passing in Basketball”

There is something to be said for the simplicity of running. You grab some shoes and hit the road. You come back knowing you got a great cardio workout in and you feel good about it! But the same can be said for basketball. I have seldom finished a good game and not felt like … Continue reading “Basketball as a Cardio Workout”

When I was a kid, my dad took us to a Harlem Globetrotters game at the local gym. Our jaws dropped in our front-row seats as we watched magicians such as Curly Neal (who was completely bald, by the way) and Meadowlark Lemon do unimaginable things with the basketball.  But I now know that the … Continue reading “Wheelchair Basketball, More Than Just a Sport”

Basketball is a game of many skills, but few are as important as dribbling can be. Knowing how to dribble a basketball as well or better than your competition can be the key to winning your next game. What’s even better is that there are very few items required to practice. A ball and a … Continue reading “How to Dribble a Basketball”

The most newsworthy basketball injury in recent memory was surely the sprained knee suffered by Duke’s Zion Williamson after the blowout of his Nike sneakers. The company clearly wishes they could’ve prevented this unfortunate incident which wiped more than a billion dollars off their balance sheet in a single day. In this article we’ll go … Continue reading “Preventing Common Basketball Injuries”