With a 38-inch vertical, DeMarcus Weekz compares his game to Derrick Rose and Tony Parker. He gets to play professionally like them for the Kansas City Spartans in the ABA.

Baller Profile: DeMarcus Weekz

|   November 28, 2008

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Baller Profile: DeMarcus Weekz

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DeMarcus Weekz (Dee)

 

Age: 22

Ho Memphis, Tennessee

Height6-3

Weigh 192

Shoe si 13

PositioPlaymaker

My HoCaver High School

PlayinCaver High School, DSCC, and Kansas City Spartans in the ABA

CurreKansas City Spartans

Favori LeBron 1, Jordan V and Jordan 9

Favorite Player: Kobe Bryant

Favorite Team: Los Angeles Lakers

Go-to-Move: Step-back

I play: I play for the love and the respect of the game

Coming up I admired: Penny Hardaway and Snapp Hunter

My basketball moment: Hitting the game winning free-throw to win the championship for my team

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Dee Weekz Attending The-Hip-Hop & Entrepreneurship

Hip hop is a cultural phenomenon that cuts across race and class, and has radically changed the landscape of American entrepreneurship.

Hip hop artists Chuck D and Master P are coming to Kansas City. During a special Town Hall meeting, they will talk about how Hip Hop has made a cultural impact on the world of American business. Hip hop is more than music and this discussion will challenge the idea that Hip Hop’s impact is limited to the music industry alone.

Want to know more about the origin and history of Hip hop? A panel of hip hop artists will discuss the entrepreneurial force of hip hop—how it took an entrepreneurial mindset to create this music genre and the associated products. Hear about the impact that Hip Hop has had on American business, including Wall Street and Madison Avenue ad campaigns. And, listen to the entrepreneurial perspectives of hip hop artists as they share the ways they continually create new products and expand their markets. They also will discuss the important role entrepreneurship and technology played in developing this multi-billion dollar industry.

What’s more, the conversation will explore: the generation gap between those born in the post civil rights years and their parents, the changing economy’s effect that fueled the hip hop explosion, and the new war of the sexes. The discussion will highlight:

• Contributions to American business that Hip Hop youth have spearheaded via the hip hop cultural explosion.
• Traditional entrepreneurial efforts that created, marketed and promoted hip hop music, fashion, publishing, etc.
• Current social entrepreneurial efforts within the hip hop generation—activist organizations who focus on electoral politics as well as other pressing social problems of our time (police brutality, environmental concerns, education reform, etc).
• The role that information technology and broadband access has played in the spread of hip hop music and culture.
• The explosive economy that hip hop created—new jobs and cottage industries.

NBA Rookie Life – How’s Your New NBA City?

NBA Rookie Life – How’s Your New NBA City?

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NBA Rookie Life – How’s Your New NBA City?

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Tulsa 66ers To Pick First In 2008 NBA D-League Draft

Oct 14, 2008 – New York – The Tulsa 66ers won the 2008 NBA Development League’s draft lottery and will have the first overall selection in the 2008 NBA D-League Draft on Friday, Nov. 7. The lottery took place in Dallas, TX today at the League’s annual Fall Meetings.

“Having the number one pick is what teams always hope for, and we’re excited to have it,” said 66ers head coach Paul Woolpert. “Now we have to compile a list, do our homework, and start building a team for the fans in Tulsa.”

The Colorado 14ers secured the second selection, while the Idaho Stampede, Sioux Falls Skyforce and Bakersfield Jam rounded out the top five.

The 2008 NBA D-League’s Draft will take place live from the NBA TV studio in Atlanta, GA. The eighth-annual event will be telecast on NBA TV and streamed on-line (www.nba.com/dleague) beginning at 7 pm EST.

The NBA D-League Draft utilizes a “serpentine” format, meaning the order will alternate in each of the ten rounds. For example, the team picking last in the first round will select first in the second round, giving them the 16th and 17th overall choices.

“With the draft order in place, we’re one step closer to getting the 2008-09 season underway,” said Chris Alpert, Vice President of Basketball Operations and Player Personnel for the NBA D-League. “It’s exciting to welcome top NBA prospects into our draft and our league.”

The order of the first round will be:

1. Tulsa 66ers

2. Colorado 14ers

3. Idaho Stampede

4. Sioux Falls Skyforce

5. Bakersfield Jam

6. Fort Wayne Mad Ants

7. Erie BayHawks

8. Anaheim Arsenal

9. Utah Flash

10. Reno Bighorns

11. Dakota Wizards

12. Rio Grande Valley Vipers

13. Los Angeles D-Fenders

14. Albuquerque Thunderbirds

15. Iowa Energy

16. Austin Toros

Can you construct a 12-man NBA roster to beat Team USA?

By Austin Burton

Joe Johnson, After last week’s 55-piece McNugget against Team Canada and last summer’s continuous destruction of the FIBA Americas field, we’ve pretty much established that Team USA can wax any team in North and South America (not counting Argentina, who didn’t bring its varsity squad to the Vegas tournament). We haven’t seen what Kobe, Dwight and the rest will do against Spain, Greece, Lithuania and the other European powers yet, but right now they rule this side of the globe.

But can you put together a team of American NBA players not on Team USA that could beat the current Olympic squad? The pool of talent is deep: Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Chauncey Billups, Joe Johnson, Allen Iverson, Amare Stoudemire, Baron Davis, Rip Hamilton, Elton Brand, T-Mac, etc. Put together the best 12-man American roster of non-Team USA players that you think could beat the 2008 Olympians…

“Thunderbirds to Hold Open Tryouts”

Thunderbirds to Hold Open Tryouts

2008 Open Tryouts Information

Location:	West Mesa High School 6701 Fortuna Rd NW Albuquerque, NM 87121
Date:	October 18-19th
Time:	Saturday: 8am-5pm Sunday 9am-5pm
Cost:	$125.00 early registration (Payment due by 10/10/08) Day of tryout cost: 150.00
Preferred Tryout Hotel:	MCM Elegant Hotel Rate: $49.00 per night Please mention you’re with participation in the Albuquerque Thunderbirds open tryout eventMCM Elegant Contact Info: 505-884-2511 1-866-650-4900 Toll free Fax 505-881-4806 2020 Menaul NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107

 

DeMarcus Weekz Is Headed 2 Da NBDL This Fall “08″

Making it to the NBA is my main focus and my goal at this moment in my life; I just want to be able to support my family and open up other opportunity for other people. I feel trading in my 2yrs of Eligible 2 achevie my goal is good because I would actually get pay for doin some I love,but at the same time support my family, but it’s not about the money with me it all about belive in yourself and never letting people discourage you from acheive your goal, but On the other end I won’t be goin school guess that the bad part but I’ll be doing some I love doing…lol, but I will be take online class and goin to summer school. We only live once so I’m doing everything In my power to make this happen for me and my family. It’s been a tough road and a hard grindin but Im build “Ford Tough”… LOl…..

“NBDL” THE STARTED

   History The league began play as the NBDL in the 2001-2002 season; the original eight franchises were all located in the southeastern United States (specifically in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia). Some of these teams were purchased by private owners and relocated — at the same time the league’s name was changed — in the summer of 2005, in a bid to appeal to more fans nationwide. As a result, franchises were established in or moved to Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma. In February of 2006, the D-League expanded to California for the first time with the addition of the Bakersfield Jam. Two months later, the league announced that four teams from the Continental Basketball Association were joining the league: the Dakota Wizards, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Idaho Stampede, and a team originally slated for CBA expansion, the Colorado 14ers.^[1][2] A few days after that, the league announced that Anaheim, California, would be getting a team.^[3] One week after that, they announced that the Los Angeles Lakers have purchased a team, making them the first NBA team to own a D-League team.^[4] The westward expansion and box office struggles have led to the closing of the NBA-owned Roanoke Dazzle^[5] and Fayetteville Patriots.^[6] The Florida Flame have suspended operations due to arena scheduling difficulties.

Northeast High grad brings ABA back to KC…….Milton Thomas

Northeast High grad brings ABA back to KC

By CANDACE BUCKNER

The Kansas City Star

Kansas City is about to become a basketball town again.

This latest reincarnation of minor-league basketball comes courtesy of Milton Thomas, owner of the Kansas City Spartans, an ABA-affiliated team. In March, Thomas got the go-ahead from the league to start a new team, but please don’t call them the Kansas City Knights.

Remember those guys? ABA team … started in 2000 … allegedly ran out of money and suddenly disappeared five years later. But these Spartans, Thomas promises, will be different.

“I’m completely separate from the Knights,” Thomas said. “I’m looking to start fresh. My approach is to be involved with the community as much as possible, and as a business man, I feel like that’s where the Knights failed.”

Thomas, a Northeast High product, is a civic-minded 29-year-old, so he feels it’s important for the Spartans to start community youth programs. But before he tries to save the world, Thomas and general manager/coach Bryant Tucker have to find some players to fill the roster. So Tucker’s been scouting around town in local gyms and pick-up games in the park.

“If I’m driving down the street and I see guys playing,” Tucker said, “I’ll pull over and stop.”

Stalking aside, Tucker knows there are better ways to find players, and this Saturday the team will hold open tryouts at Hillcrest Community Center. The session goes from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., and pre-registration costs $125 per player. Fifty bucks more if you show up at the door. For more information, check out http://www.kansascityspartans.com.

Short big on KC

It’s highly unlikely that actor Columbus Short or any of the Hollywood types from the celebrity basketball game benefiting the Clay Johnson Foundation will show up for the Spartan tryouts. They do have day jobs, after all, but last weekend they put on a surprisingly competitive game.

Short, whose surname is pretty accurate, is a Kansas City kid even though he left town when he was about 6 years old.

He still comes back every so often.

“It’s grown so much,” Short said of KC. “It’s like a vibrant city.”

Short is best known for his dancing in the movie “Stomp The Yard.” But now we know that the kid can play ball, too. During the game, Short scored at the rim with ease, but if for some reason you’re starting a celebrity fantasy basketball league, I’d suggest you draft R&B singer Tank and actor Jarod Einsohn. And yes, they’re all taller on television