BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Guess who's teaching me how to post up?

To play in the NBA is any baller's dream. And it starts out with watching games on the telly before those moves are practiced on that makeshift court in your room, in the backyard, the garage, or even in the park. When things get more serious then you go to basketball camps where the game's fundamentals are drummed into you.

What if that process is circumvented in a good way when you're brought to four different NBA hoops hotbeds to learn the game from five of the game's biggest stars?

Well, not only will you be "NBA Tested. Brotherhood Ready" but you'll receive a massive dose of confidence that should help raise your level of play.

Twelve, unknown ball players from the U.S. and China were brought to learn the game of basketball and brotherhood alongside NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Gilbert Arenas, Dwight Howard, Tracy McGrady and Tim Duncan in adidas’ 2008-2009 start of season basketball campaign.

Captured in a four-part “NBA Tested. Brotherhood Ready.” film series, the young athletes’ side-by-side experience with the NBA stars brings to life the two playing styles a Brotherhood comprises: Commanders and Creators.

Beginning in Washington DC, the young players learn the aggressively smooth and stealth-like approach to running the floor from the definitive Creator Gilbert Arenas. Next, they travel to Orlando to learn what it takes to have unwavering physical presence and dominating effect in the paint from Commander Dwight Howard. The athletes come together as a team of Commanders and Creators in Houston as they play with Commander Tim Duncan and Creator Tracy McGrady. Ultimately, the journey concludes as a Brotherhood in Boston with Kevin Garnett.








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