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Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Rucker Park - The Second Season | 
 enlarge | Actors: Kobe Bryant, Baron Davis
Studio: Urban Works
Category: Video
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $9.81
You Save: $5.18 (35%)
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 42567
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
UPC: 634991141635
EAN: 0634991141635
ASIN: B000083C86
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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Condition: ***DISPATCHED SAME DAY FROM USA WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION E-MAIL SEND FOR FASTEST DELIVERY PLEASAE ORDER VIA EXPEDITED DELIVERY OPTION STANDARD DELIVERY WILL TAKE LONGER INTERNATIONAL ORDERS MIGHT TAKE 10-18 DAYS MIGHT HAVE SOME SHELVWEAR
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| Features:
| • | Producer: Urbanworks/Ventura | | • | EBC ballers like Bone Collector, Escalade, Prime and the NBA pros Kobe Bryant, Steve Frances and Jamal Tinsley | | • | Bonus Audio CD features the music of Fat Joe, Clipse, Xzibit and more |
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Product Description
The Video Action Sports "Ballin' At Rucker Park" basketball video features the best street ballers and the NBA's most explosive players going head to head at the 2002 Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York. EBC ballers like Bone Collector, Escalade, Prime and the NBA pros Kobe Bryant, Steve Frances and Jamal Tinsley came together to showcase their skills on the court.
Amazon.com
This celebration of a unique, wildly populist basketball event in contemporary America is sporadically thrilling but always boisterous fun, more boastful hip-hop video than even-handed sports documentary. Why not: boasting is certainly in keeping with the spirit of the annual Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Harlem's Rucker Park, a summer tournament that pits neighborhood legends against professional players in some very showy, showdown streetball. Some call it a "Second NBA," but others just think of EBC as a very cool thing, where local, non-pro heroes such as Bone Collector, Keithy Keith, Sticks, and Alimoe can play their game their way, on their turf, to a crowd of 1,500 and occasionally steal thunder from the likes of the Trailblazers' Derek Anderson, the Warriors' Rafer Alston, and even the Lakers' Kobe Bryant (whose long-awaited arrival in Harlem causes near-hysteria). Recommended as a touchstone of spectacle and deserved pride. --Tom Keogh
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kobe bryant accuser July 25, 2003
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
Found the website for kobe bryant,type: 'kobe bryant accuser',next look-up: 'wbli.com:steve & maria kobe bryant's accuser',this website has the pictures of the mistaken accuser,she saids she'll sue for being wrongly identified.
kobe bryant accuser July 25, 2003
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
Found the website for kobe bryant,type: 'kobe bryant accuser',next look-up: 'wbli.com:steve & maria kobe bryant's accuser',this website has the pictures of the mistaken accuser,she saids she'll sue for being wrongly identified.
kobe bryant ,and other basketball stars! July 25, 2003
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Great athletes of basketball,with Kobe Bryant,great book and worth reading!
 The Real AND1 May 7, 2003
Chon-ny
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
With AND1 hysteria sweeping the nation, it's tough to play a game at the rec and not have a "Hot Sauce" wannabe want to pull a move on someone. Most of these guys find out it's not so easy to pull of the move with someone actually playing hard D on you.
Enter EBC 2, a collection of footage from the recent Entertainer's Basketball Classic, the tournament of tournaments for most ballers. The level of skill is remarkably higher than that displayed in the AND1 tapes, where they played locals with little or no motivation to stop their opponents. So when The Bone Collector or A Whole Lotta Game pulls a so-called "AND1" move--slicing through the lane with a windmill lefty layup or shaking a defenders outstretched hand before shooting--it's all the more spectacular. Not only is the skill level through the roof, with NBA players lke Stephon Marbury, Jermaine O'Neal, Shawn Marion, Baron Davis, Derek Anderson, Jason Richardson, Cedric Henderson, Kenny Satterfield and Kobe Bryant making appearances, winning the championship is actually a goal.
Notice the emphasis on tough threes, get-em-out blocks, and disgusting hangtime oops; these are skilled players pulling off hotdog moves either because they have to or because they've got the balls to. You aren't humiliating chumps, you're trying to dunk or dribble through Ron Artest, Jamaal Tinsley and a host of streetball legends.
The conversational cuts in between the highlights could be done away with; it seems like the tournament directors and regulars are forcing face time. The music is a definite plus, intercut perfectly with the crowd's oohs and aahs. The DVD also plays the championship game in near-entirety, a definite plus if you don't think you can make it to the Rucker to watch the EBC live in your lifetime. There's also a easy to navigate section of the best dunks and moves of the tournament.
Which brings up the sad fact that championships can be bought, and that like the AND1 series, going mainstream will only water down streetball. Fat Joe's Terror Squad disgustingly buys the championship by putting together a roster composed largely of NBA players and ghetto superstars from other teams to convincingly take "the Chip."
It's a must have for the basketball fan though. It's your last chance to see streetball moves busted out in a rough-and-tough environment, where nothing comes for free. It's AND1 in a real tournament...go out and get it before the other guy does.
Real from the Streets March 5, 2003
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Kobe, Steph Marbury, Bone Collector, Escalade, Ron Artest and Shawn Marion!!!!!!! Don't forget Fat Joe!!!! Something real from the streets. These cats have moves!!!! Both streetball and NBA players. This DVD was in FootLocker earlier. You can tell by looking at it that these Ballaz ain't making this up!!! Bone Collector and Jamal Tinsley go head-to-head and no one is letting the other one Punk him. I have seen a lot of other "StreetBall" tapes and you can tell cats are acting (And1 is known for faking it, how are you gonna let someone on a cellphone score on you?) This DVD had a lot of NBA players who represent!!!!!! Kobe Bryant came down and did the damn thing!!!!! He was ballin' like he grew up in Rucker Park. Cop this DVD!!! One.
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