Pretty hilarious video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnKOc6FISU


Uncle Drew got skills.

don't reach youngblood.

That is awesome

Awesome

It would've been a lot better if the whole thing wasn't staged.

Staged or not, he is ridiculously fast

I love those kind of videos

What, staged? You don't think that a lot of city playgrounds have fans standing around only drinking Pepsi Max as well as a nice diversity of white and black players, none of which have discernable team or product labels on their clothes.

I'm not claiming it was legit, but there were blurred-out logos.

Obviously it was staged to some extent, but it's possible no one knew that was really Kyrie Irving in the costume.

Maybe they were told it was some NBA player from the 60s. But I'm sure they became suspicious when he started one-handed ooping off the backboard haha

I doubt there are "model" type ladies with full makeup hangin on the ghetto courts

According to everything I know about ghetto street ball (which I learned from the song I Wish by Skee Lo), that scene is perfectly accurate.

Ain't got nothin on the videos of Branding Jennings at Rucker during the lockout.

Brandon Jennings vs Josh Selby videos > > Durant's four 3-pointers in a row at Rucker video > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > everything

Lots of ways to get people out, probably told them they were filming a 'reality type' commercial, I think it was legit because they never revealed that Drew was Irving

They said they were filming a documentary or something. Regardless, I always like to see what's it like when an NBA player takes on Regular Joes at anything resembling at least 80% effort.

I would love to play in a pick-up game with LeBron James where he was playing with playoff level intensity just to see how far the gap is between the best player in the world and regular guys.

I played against Birdman Andersen at 24 Hour once. He was playing at what appeared to be 30% effort level and was destroying people. Nothing but dunks and three pointers.

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I would love to play in a pick-up game with LeBron James where he was playing with playoff level intensity just to see how far the gap is between the best player in the world and regular guys.

I played against Birdman Andersen at 24 Hour once. He was playing at what appeared to be 30% effort level and was destroying people. Nothing but dunks and three pointers.

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I played against Birdman when he was 19 or 20... you have probably seen and ridiculed my story.
I played in hoop-it-up top level a few times (Waco). It is amazing what some of those guys can do. Most of the teams we played would have one guy that played NBA... or at least claimed to have played NBA.
I have a guy on my church league team that played in the NBA (10 day contract). He is now 40 but the guy is still a freak.6'7", 250 and 10% BF, shot about 50% from behind the arch for us this year. Could not get him to stay down low.
However; NBA "big men" are not as impressive in pickup games compared to guards (still impressive).
I have played against former D1 guards that amaze me more than the former NBA players I have played. Most of the NBA guys were "big men". There is so much more competition for a guard position than the others.

I played in a pick-up game at the rec center against Junior Elonu when he was still a senior in high school (his summer AAU team had a tournament there and he snuck over to play a couple games).

He dunked on me like 5 times.

Even someone who played for a small college will still crush most people... I was a good ball player at one point, but my cousin destroyed me and he played at some tiny, highly-rated academic university.

There's so much those guys know about positioning and footwork that the average joe never learns. Add athleticism/size to it and it's no comparison.

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Friend of mine started at point guard for a D3 school, won a few conference championships. When he plays pick up games, he tends to be head over heels better than anyone else.

Head and shoulders...
Sorry.

Don't forget skip to ny Lou's videos

Apparently, Uncle Drew is a grumpy and feisty old man with brittle bones.

You would think that with age comes wisdom.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8167467/cleveland-cavaliers-guard-kyrie-irving-breaks-right-hand-las-vegas-practice

Pepsi and Irving put together a "Chapter 2."

Link

I didn't think this one was as fun, but Bill Russell's comment about the game being "about buckets," which is what Irving said in the first vid when he was doing his rant about kids today, was pretty funny. I also think it'd be pretty odd/funny to see a 6'10 old dude repeatedly pulling up and dropping bombs from 3 point land on a neighborhood court.

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