Hook Mitchell was said to be the greatest basketball player never to make the NBA.  For Hook, he can believe that or like a true baller do, he can stay on the grind to define his own place in basketball and streetball history.

Streetball.com, a product of the Bay Area just like Demetrius “Hook” Mitchell,  will always put Hook on blast.  Now playing on Streetball is a video called “Hook Mitchell Streetball Mixtape.”

We like to call it, Hook Mitchell 2.o.

Streetball will let Hook jump over the cars while they jump over website after website.

Watch the basketball video, “Hook Mitchell Streetball Mixtape.”

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Basketball and streetball player Grayson Boucher aka “The Professor” of Salem, Oregon, was asked how he first got noticed.

“I played the team, and I got noticed,” he said. “They took me on a tour.”

Kenny “The Bad One” Brunner, from Los Angeles, said, “I was broke and I needed a job.”

And One’s “8th Wonder” Scott, a former member of the Harlem GlobeTrotters, is a member of the team.

Grayson Boucher aka The Professor Streetball

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame brought the traveling basketball competition and exhibition AND1 Mixtape Tour, an organized streetball team, to the Hall of Fame yesterday to provide a clinic for area teens.

The streetball team, along with their announcer, Duke Tango, travels from city to city and plays teams composed of local talent. The players will be at the Hall of Fame for four days and will play an All Star Team of youths selected from cities around the country Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Hall of Fame.

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Tyreke Evans will be taking over the point guard spot for Derrick Rose and the Memphis Tigers next college basketball season.  Tyreke Evans is considered to be the top basketball prep in the High School Class of 2008. He was a McDonald’s All-American and a Jordan Brand first team All-American, winning MVP in both basketball games.

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Streetball.com is doing something I never imagined.  Just watch the streetball video.  By the way, the video includes Scout.com, Rise Magazine, And 1, Yardbarker.com, MaxPreps.com, Rivals.com, Takkle.com, NBA, MySpace.com, SlamOnline.com and other basketball and sports websites.  Check out the Streetball.com Remix of Ace Hood’s popular video, “Cash Flow.”

Ace Hood “Cash Flow Streetball Remix”

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Fantasy Sports Ventures (FSV), the parent company of the FantasyPlayers.com Network, has acquired the premier independent basketball content site, HoopsHype.com, it was announced today by Fantasy Sports Ventures CEO Chris Russo.

FantasyPlayers.com network includes over 100 owned and affiliated websites.

HoopsHype.com, launched in 2002 by founder Jorge Sierra, is one of the most well respected and successful basketball content sites on the Web. It is widely read among basketball and streetball players, agents, coaches, executives and fans around the world. Columnists who regularly contribute to HoopsHype.com include former pro hoopsters Eddie Johnson and Dee Brown as well as prominent basketball scribe Sam Smith.

HoopsHype is an important addition to FantasyPlayers.com’s robust basketball channel which also includes HoopsWorld.com, Collegehoops.net, DraftExpress.com, HoopsKlyce.com, BasketballProspectus.com, EmptytheBench.com and many other leading independent basketball sites. In addition to basketball, the FantasyPlayers.com Network offers deep channels of sports specific content in pro & college football, baseball, auto racing, hockey and several other sports.

“HoopsHype’s unique mix of news, rumors, opinion and access will continue to provide FantasyPlayers.com users with the best independent basketball coverage available,” said Russo (who was formerly the Senior VP of New Media at the NFL). “Whether our readers are looking for the latest news, rumors, fantasy tips or draft analysis, our basketball channel gives fans everything they need in one place.”

“We are excited about the opportunities that FantasyPlayers.com brings to the evolution of HoopsHype,” Sierra said. “We look forward to adding resources like video and additional columnists for our readers.

The FantasyPlayers.com Network includes more than 100 fantasy sports and related web sites, delivering approximately 5 million unique users per months. These owned and affiliated sites provide high-quality fantasy news, information, analysis and game products across all major sports. As a part of the Network, affiliates receive a range of benefits, such as research, content, promotion, and monetization services. The primary goal of the Network is to provide affiliate sites with new revenue opportunities while enabling advertisers to reach the avid fantasy user through high impact marketing programs.

About Fantasy Sports Ventures (FSV)

Fantasy Sports Ventures is an integrated marketing and media company with two key business units: the FantasyPlayers.com Network, a dynamic fantasy sports portal featuring 100+ leading fantasy websites and FSV Advisors, the firm’s consulting practice leveraging the principals’ decades of collective experience in professional sports, new media and technology. www.fantasysportsventures.com

About HoopsHype.com

HoopsHype.com is the premier independent basketball source on the Web. Online since 2002, it is a must-read for pro basketball players, agents, coaches, executives and die-hard fans. You can visit the site at www.hoopshype.com.

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