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🎥 Featured in Emmy-Nominated Nike Freestyle Commercials
🏀 Helping Players & Parents Build Basketball Skills & Confidence
🧠 49 | Constant Movement | Brain games
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08/05/2026

Fun watching my mini me playing basketball and seeing what he’s putting down. I never taught him the underhand scoop pass, I swear. Haha. Funny what kids pick up from watching us.

07/11/2026

Venice Beach Draft Day was one I’ll remember for a long time.

I was lucky enough to be invited back as a special guest coach to lead the new draftees through one of my brain games with an extended plank. We talk a lot about physical training, but learning to stay calm and push past discomfort is a skill too. We go where others won’t.

The best part of the day, though, was the father and son 2 on 2 tournament. Watching Dylan step onto that stage for the first time, make some plays, and share that experience together is something I’ll never forget.

Basketball has always been one of the coolest ways to bring people together. No matter where you are in the world, you can step on a court with complete strangers and, within minutes, you’re competing, laughing, building friendships, and creating memories you’ll remember for years.

Days like this remind me why I still love this game. VENICEBALL

07/06/2026

It’s fun to be creative with the allleyoops and dunks. A pain to make happen sometimes? Sure the hell is, but worth it. Which oop ya taking for dunk contest? First or second?

06/28/2026

Retired hooper from the Nike Freestyle commercials and street ball days still having some fun at 49 playing hoops at Venice Beach. Playing with the youngsters keeps me young. Haha. Basketball always been my love and it’s just fun to be out there throwing some passes. It’s one of my ways I like to stay active and in a little bit of shape as I’ve gotten older.

It’s definitely not as easy as we age to get out there, but the other option is the couch for eternity, I’m gonna try to hold that off a bit longer. 🫡🤝

06/26/2026

Had the pleasure of being guest coach for the draft day, a league that been running 20 years in Venice Beach that has put some great basketball players on the map.

I got to run the players through some drills and some of my mental exercises for dealing with discomfort and pushing past what your brain is telling you is your limit. I gave them extended timed planks, they’re more of a brain game to me to learn to push you past your limits of what your head is telling you is uncomfortable. This can applied to sports, life, business and so forth. If we want better versions of ourselves, we have to step into the uncomfortable zones to get there and I hope these young men and women picked up some of this and will apply to their everyday lives.

We can’t get where we want to go by staying in what feels good to us all the time. Growth will require being uncomfortable, scared to take the next steps, questioning lots of our choices. I just say go for it and put yourself out there. It’s better to be in the arena putting something on the line, than a quiet observer in the stands if we want to better ourselves.

Thanks for a great day everyone, and you know I very much appreciate the effort everyone put in. Good luck this summer!

Are you pushing yourself in life? Or ya staying all cozy?

06/25/2026

From my Nike days touring the world, performing in NBA arenas, and entertaining millions… I still love putting myself in situations where I might fail.

That’s why I said yes to Jesser’s Basketball Squid Games. A bunch of ballers, most of them half my age, and another chance to see if I could still deliver when the pressure was on.

To all the young athletes… don’t wait until you’re not scared.

Go anyway.

That’s where the growth is. Every time you push past discomfort, you learn something about yourself you would’ve never found staying comfortable.

Keep moving. Keep competing. Keep putting yourself in situations that demand your best.

Thanks to Jesser for having me out. SeanDoesMagic ya never miss a 3 brotha!

06/24/2026

Former Nike streetball pro. 49 years old. Trying to hold off my 12 year old son. Am I cooked by 14??

The basketball is the fun part, but what I really love about this is watching years of work, conversations, teaching, competing, and time together start to show up on the court.

At 12 years old, Dylan is already 5’9” and getting better every month. There are moments now where he’ll hit me with something and I’ll just laugh because I know exactly where he learned it. Then five seconds later I’m coaching him on the next possession while we’re still going at each other.

As fathers, I think this is one of the coolest things we’ll ever experience. You spend years teaching your kids, pushing them, encouraging them, correcting them, and helping them build confidence, and then one day you realize all that work is starting to come back at you.

I’m grateful that at 49 I can still move, still compete, and still make him earn everything, but I’m also realistic enough to know my days are numbered. The gap gets a little smaller every year, and honestly that’s exactly how it’s supposed to be.

For now, Dad can still get a bucket.

For now. 😂

06/21/2026

My kiddo hit me with a dime and I blew it.😂

Funny moment in the father/son basketball tourney turned into one of the best parts of the day. My buddy encouraging my son while hooping, me doing so right back with his lil, the youngsters having a ball going at it on the court. All to be hanging after and sharing some laughs.

Thanks to for having me out to coach all the players for the draft, put them through some work, see the up and coming generation. And the dad vs sons 2s was special to me to share the court with my kiddo. I’ve been very lucky in my basketball career to get so many great interactions with so many people over the decades. We always hear on the court talking about family, and that’s what yesterday felt like for me.

Happy Father’s Day to every dad in the game, it’s our biggest honor. Hope you all have the best days today!

06/20/2026

Felt decent for an old man. 49 years old. Still having some fun running around, playing basketball with the youngins.

06/05/2026

Nike Basketball OG at 49. Between dad life, work, basketball, volleyball, and life in general, I’ve always enjoyed staying active and finding ways to play.

49 now and still enjoying getting out there competing, moving, taking a few spills, and seeing if I can still hang with the youngins.

Shoutout to red shorts for letting that throw slide. Pretty sure I accidentally mixed basketball and MMA on that one. 😂

Ya still play?

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