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Ball4Real presentation and schedule
05.15.2007 - Updated on 07.9.2007
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Presentation of the new Ball4Real Tour including players and schedule. Ball4Real Players: AO, Main Event, Mr.720, 50, ½ Man ½ Amazing, Spyda, Shane the Dribbling Machine, Circus, Special FX, I’ll Be Right Back, High Octane, Pharmacist & Coach Steve Burtt. Ball4Real Pre-Game Block Party: The Block Party is a free festival type event that happens in the parking lot or on the street just outside of the arena from 3pm to 6:30pm prior to the game. The Pre-Game block party is an opportunity to watch local players compete on the outdoor court, see the Ball4Real players help select the players that will come inside that night and will also mingle with the fans. Ball4Real selection process: Ballers compete as individuals to get into the game that night and represent their city vs. The Ball4Real team. Ball4Real players and coaches narrow the field of players from 200 to 20 to 10 to the final 4 ballers who will play in the big game. Players that make it inside also have the chance to be chosen to come on the road with us, to be featured on our TV show and to have a shot at winning a $100,000 contract to be the next Ball4Real player. Ball4Real game: A ticketed streetball game that happens inside the arenas. Games will be filled with dunks, crossovers and "no he didn’t" moves.
Ball4Real Tour Schedule: | Day | Date | | City | Venue | | FRI | 1-Jun | 1 | Seattle, WA | Key Arena | | WED | 6-Jun | 2 | Las Vegas, NV | Orleans Arena | | FRI | 8-Jun | 3 | Sacramento, CA | Arco Arena | | SUN | 10-Jun | 4 | San Diego, CA | Cox Arena | | FRI | 15-Jun | 5 | Oakland, CA | Oracle Arena | | SAT | 16-Jun | 6 | Los Angeles, CA | Home Depot Center | | WED | 20-Jun | 7 | Denver, CO | Pepsi Coliseum | | SAT | 23-Jun | 8 | Oklahoma City, OK | Ford Center | | MON | 25-Jun | 9 | Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center | | WED | 27-Jun | 10 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center | | FRI | 29-Jun | 11 | New Orleans, LA | Superdome Arena | | SUN | 1-Jul | 12 | Memphis, TN | Fed Ex Forum | | FRI | 6-Jul | 13 | St. Louis, MO | Scottrade Center | | SAT | 7-Jul | 14 | Chicago, IL | United Center | | WED | 11-Jul | 15 | Detroit, MI | Cobo Arena | | FRI | 13-Jul | 16 | Birmingham, AL | BJCC Arena | | SUN | 15-Jul | 17 | Atlanta, GA | Phillips Arena | | WED | 18-Jul | 18 | Jacksonville, FL | Veterans Memorial Arena | | SAT | 21-Jul | 19 | Miami, FL | American Airlines Center | | WED | 25-Jul | 20 | Charlotte, NC | Bobcats Arena | | FRI | 27-Jul | 21 | Columbia, SC | Colonial Center | | SUN | 29-Jul | 22 | Washington, DC | Verizon Center | | WED | 1-Aug | 23 | Norfolk, VA | Constant Center | | SAT | 4-Aug | 24 | Cincinnati, OH | US Bank Arena | | WED | 8-Aug | 25 | Cleveland, OH | Wolstein Center | | SAT | 11-Aug | 26 | Buffalo, NY | HSBC Arena | | WED | 15-Aug | 27 | Manchester, NH | Verizon Wireless Arena | | SUN | 19-Aug | 28 | Philadelphia, PA | Wachovia Center | | WED | 22-Aug | 29 | Hartford, CT | Civic Center Coliseum | | SAT | 25-Aug | 30 | New York, NY | Madison Square Garden | |
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Posted by
blase
on 06.29.2008 | Big fan of and1 and ball4real.All I have to say is this... If Ball4Real wan’t to get anything jumping, they needs to fix their website problem, and do more promotion. There are alot of peope like myself who love streetball. Ball4real just isn’t getting the word out they way that And1 did. They need to find a way to get the word out if they want to have success. . | Posted by
SAG
on 06.24.2008 | and 1 is owned by and 1 but BALL4REAL IS THE REAL STUFF . | Posted by
on 05.7.2008 | this is to the guy Tavon from Bmore. Yes and1 did bring up alot of ballers but at the same time the company and1 did them very shady. For 1 they put clothes and ugly a-------sneakers first then the players and the players are the reason why you would want to buy the gear. 2nd they wern’t paying the players any real money for guys who are putting your company on the basketball map and you own a million dollar company the least you can do is break them off some serious dough, at least enough to get a nice house otta the hood. As a matter of fact as much as they did each of them should have a small manshion or something i mean AND1 is the so calledbest street all players in the world or at least claim to be. 3rd the only player really getting all the shine in money was skip and he was only in 3 tapes 1,5 ad the begining of vol 7. the rest of the crew was putting in work every year. Now i know rafer is in the NBA and i’m not hating on him don’t get me wrong but a big as skip to my lou was why wasn’t he on every tour. And1 tours always kick off during the NBA off season. Then i don’t tink the players liked skip that much. I started to show by lil picecs on the tour how main event, headche ansd shane wouldtalk about the nba and compair them selfto skip. Especially Headache which who got done dirty they kicked him off in the middle of the tour. The same year Profesor got down. They also did Alimoe and sik wit it ,spin master, future and Aircraft and speedy from vol 2 dirty. Speedy said well f ya’ll then i’m going back to the rucker then and was MVP at last seaons EBC tournament. Sik wit it was one of the first guys from L.A. on the tour and they got rid of him and spin master cause of steave Bert the coach and sik wit it was the BEFORE THAT NIGGA WAS!!!! since vol 4 he was an original. Future is only aloud to play in the NY games now and is an opposing player why when he was oone of the orignal 6 players when they first started he should have been on the team. Future said forget that bS and he too went back to Rucker Park. Aircraft was player who i felt didn’t get as much respect on the team and they threw him away. after vol 4. But back to the skip thing i all really showed when skip and 1/2 man 1/2 amazing got into it. Now i don’t know if he really ment to do it or not but all the guys felt diffrently about it hell main event wanted to fight that man.AND another question about that game what was skip even doing on the opposing team why!! 3rd they don’t get any good promotion with comercial and airplay especially airplay as much money as the owner of the company has why is he so cheap to by decent tv play. It’s a tour for your company that will help your sales which will put more money in your pocket in yet you hav to stay uop till 2 in the morning just to see them. Back to themoney thing skip is the only player making any real money on the team his nba salary and his AND1 endorsment. I bet none of the and1 guys except Escalde’s kiss a-------has been to his house. I’ve never seen any and1 players at any of rafer’s NBA games. And that’s wo he played with before he even got in the NBA. so that’s the 4th reason disloyal leaders on the team. That’s why i always like Alimoe better. And how could you give Alimoe up he’s better than skip for those who seen the skip vs Alimoe tape and watch EBC you know what i’m talking about Alimoe kills skip everytime. 5th the lost hotsauce for a good minute now he’s back and doesn’t want to be thee anyomore because the people he’s worked with since day one left t start something new and better but has to stay due to contract. Same with Air up there because he left they took his name now he’s Mr. 720 that shows right thereshows somewhat of Slavery. They barily even get half of an arena filled dut to poor managment they might as well habe stayed in the parks at least htey would sell out there. They getting mad beacuse they played more serious and a lil less tricks... well there not playing against them bum a-------guys they did in the begining there palying against people who are actully good. What would you want to do all those tricks and lose by 12 or play ball and win buy 20 . they got mad at them for that that’s number 6 don’t tell someone how to do their job. I herd profesor and mr. 72o got fined for being hurt that’s 8 right there no player benefits or health care. 9th when they stayed in hotels they never got the penthouses but skip did... that is no stardom. and 10becuase they were tired of living under skip to my lou and tired of being bossed around and being told how much money they can make and they decided enough was enough that they were gunna be their onw boss manages themself and take control of there own careers instead of listening to the white man. Ball 4 real is their company and is black owned. p.s . i am not a racist that’s just true facts . | Posted by
on 05.7.2008 | A Mountain dew, Starbary sneakers, Juicy fruit gum, U.s Army. They pritty much got some good sponcers. It’s a shame how and1 treated their players. Maby they’ll see how bad they messed up when they see how succesful b4r tour is. . | Posted by
XCalibur
on 05.3.2008 | Yeah, Mountain Dew is no longer sponsering AND1. Old Spice is now sponsering them. I have no idea who’s sponsering Ball4Real since I’ve never seen one of their shows, but they sound pretty cool. I’ll definitely check out the Block Parties in Miami and Jacksonville FL. . | Posted by
TAVON FROM BMORE
on 04.4.2008 | LISTEN UP ALL YOU BALL4REAL FANS IF IT WASNT FOR AND1 WOULD YALL HAVE A SHOW NIGGAS KEEP DOWNING AND1 CAUSE THEY DONT BE ON ESPN LIKE DAT BUT WHERE THA f-YOU WATCH BALL4REAL AT AND AND1 IS LOSING FANS BCAUSE EVERYONE IS LEARNING THOSE MOVES f-----RAY CHARLES CAN DO THOSE MOVES I WILL LOVE AND1 FOREVER CAUSE THEY OPEN THE DOOR FOR STREETBALL PERIOD . | Posted by
on 01.10.2008 | I’m so ashamed. I just found out about this tonight. Honestly..i thought ESPN had cancelled "Streetball" because i didn’t see it all last summer. Once "World Series of Poker" hit, ESPN just shoved "Streetball" to the side. I happened to catch Streetball tonight @ 3 AM. Thought it was a rerun until i realized most of the team wasn’t there, I started looking around on the Net, and that’s how i found out about Ball4Real. Sorry i missed them over the summer; i’ll catch them next summer. I see they still aren’t coming to Baltimore, though, LOL. I’m surprised Silk is on And1 (shout out to Kenwood and Monument - Kenwood and Beryl) ! What’s the inside story though ? Why did the And1 executive leave to go with them ? Is Mountain Dew no longer sponsoring And1? Inquiring minds want to know.... . | Posted by
kesiie
on 09.10.2007 | sorry not yall Street cowboy . | Posted by
kesiie
on 09.10.2007 | yall r on crack...they broke away from and1...They was tired of doing the same ol thing n jus doin tricks there was no competetion..so they split off into ball4real...most of the good players are on ball4real neway besides baby shack and silkother than that the player from and1 and ball4real are still friends it was just a business thing! . | Posted by
on 08.22.2007 | I went 2 the 1 in Hartford i went 2 the block party the game and the community center it wuz fun i liked the game the most the funny part wuz wen they had the white boy come dance agaignst the black boy it wuz funny . | Posted by
on 08.20.2007 | AND1 Is over Bal4Real is the revolution . | Posted by
Street Cowboi
on 08.16.2007 | Its a rip off of AND1. . | Posted by
on 08.1.2007 | ball4real is a whole lot better than and 1. It is more real and has better players. They have all the original veterans including: 50 who shuts down offenses and AO the best streetball point guard. They also have the best dunker ever in Mr. 720. . | Posted by
Tamra
on 06.28.2007 | like to know who taped the event, i would like a copy if possiable of the dance contest where the 3yr old boy beat adults at dancing and won a car stereo system..spring2sexy@yahoo.com that’s where i can be reached..Houston Texas Ball4real was last night June 26 2007 . | Posted by
IrishBlack
on 06.21.2007 | The whole point is that they now own part of the league...for years, and 1 was pimping them out and not giving the players a fair share of the revenues. Nobody is saying that the players deserve more than half the money; but they should get more than 5 cents out of each dollar or whatever piddly amount it was under And 1. So I say good for Main, Octaine, and the rest of them . | Posted by
’Soy Sauce’
on 06.14.2007 | errr wtf??!will they compete against AND1?this is stupid .. AND1 is betterand they have past contracted players from the AND1 team . | Posted by
section8
on 06.2.2007 | Markakaheist, the difference is that the tour is entirely owned by the players and not a shoe company like AND1! That means all the profits go the the ballers instead of some corporate suits. AND1 was making millions off of streetball. It’s about time the streetballers got their fair share. . | Posted by
on 06.1.2007 | Theodoros Plakadopoulos has signed up already. Yall might know him better as TPlay. He played himself 2 years over at UTEP. He was also one of the ones on the Greek Streetball team that handed AND1 its first international loss. . | Posted by
homeysam uk represent leeds bad boi
on 05.28.2007 | holy s---that is exactly like and1! . | Posted by
markakaheist
on 05.26.2007 | so somebody explain to me how is ball4real any different from and1? . |
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