Product Details

• Actors: Kobe Bryant, Baron Davis
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: MELLE
• DVD Release Date: March 25, 2003
• Run Time: 65 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000083C85
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #97,068 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This celebration of a unique, wildly populist basketball event in contemporary America is sporadically thrilling but always boisterous fun, more boastful hip-hop video than even-handed sports documentary. Why not: boasting is certainly in keeping with the spirit of the annual Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Harlem's Rucker Park, a summer tournament that pits neighborhood legends against professional players in some very showy, showdown streetball.

Some call it a "Second NBA," but others just think of EBC as a very cool thing, where local, non-pro heroes such as Bone Collector, Keithy Keith, Sticks, and Alimoe can play their game their way, on their turf, to a crowd of 1,500 and occasionally steal thunder from the likes of the Trailblazers' Derek Anderson, the Warriors' Rafer Alston, and even the Lakers' Kobe Bryant (whose long-awaited arrival in Harlem causes near-hysteria). Recommended as a touchstone of spectacle and deserved pride. --Tom Keogh

From the Back Cover

You've seen all the imitators, now check out the real...The newest installment to the phenomenal BALL SERIES, Melee Entertainment in association with UrbanWorks Entertainment presents BALLIN' AT RUCKER PARK. BALLIN' AT RUCKER PARK features the best streetballers and the NBA's most explosive players going head-to-head at the 2002 ENTERTAINER'S BASKETBALL CLASSIC at Rucker Park in Harlem USA. Once again, Harlem's Rucker Park hosted the best street basketball on the planet. EBC ballers like BONE COLLECTOR, ESCALADE, PRIME OBJECTIVE, WHOLE-LOTTA-GAME, NBA hotshots BARON DAVIS, STEPHON MARBURY, KOBE BRYANT, STEVE FRANCES, and JAMAL TINSLEY all converged on 155th to showcase their skills. As always, the highlights from this year's ENTERTAINER'S BASKETBALL CLASSIC are the hottest you'll ever find anywhere!

That's not all! Each DVD will include a BONUS AUDIO CD featuring music from the hottest rap stars on the scene today including; Fat Joe, Clipse, Xzibit and more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Real AND1, May 7, 2003

By	Chon-ny "Your Sensei's Sensei" - See all my reviews

With AND1 hysteria sweeping the nation, it's tough to play a game at the rec and not have a "Hot Sauce" wannabe want to pull a move on someone. Most of these guys find out it's not so easy to pull of the move with someone actually playing hard D on you.
Enter EBC 2, a collection of footage from the recent Entertainer's Basketball Classic, the tournament of tournaments for most ballers. The level of skill is remarkably higher than that displayed in the AND1 tapes, where they played locals with little or no motivation to stop their opponents. So when The Bone Collector or A Whole Lotta Game pulls a so-called "AND1" move--slicing through the lane with a windmill lefty layup or shaking a defenders outstretched hand before shooting--it's all the more spectacular. Not only is the skill level through the roof, with NBA players lke Stephon Marbury, Jermaine O'Neal, Shawn Marion, Baron Davis, Derek Anderson, Jason Richardson, Cedric Henderson, Kenny Satterfield and Kobe Bryant making appearances, winning the championship is actually a goal.
Notice the emphasis on tough threes, get-em-out blocks, and disgusting hangtime oops; these are skilled players pulling off hotdog moves either because they have to or because they've got the balls to. You aren't humiliating chumps, you're trying to dunk or dribble through Ron Artest, Jamaal Tinsley and a host of streetball legends.
The conversational cuts in between the highlights could be done away with; it seems like the tournament directors and regulars are forcing face time. The music is a definite plus, intercut perfectly with the crowd's oohs and aahs. The DVD also plays the championship game in near-entirety, a definite plus if you don't think you can make it to the Rucker to watch the EBC live in your lifetime. There's also a easy to navigate section of the best dunks and moves of the tournament.
Which brings up the sad fact that championships can be bought, and that like the AND1 series, going mainstream will only water down streetball. Fat Joe's Terror Squad disgustingly buys the championship by putting together a roster composed largely of NBA players and ghetto superstars from other teams to convincingly take "the Chip."
It's a must have for the basketball fan though. It's your last chance to see streetball moves busted out in a rough-and-tough environment, where nothing comes for free. It's AND1 in a real tournament...go out and get it before the other guy does.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kobe Slammin Street Ball At Rucker Park, March 3, 2003

By	"scottsmusiclaw" (Philiadelphia, PA, USA) - See all my reviews

I just looked at this new street ball DVD with my buds and we were all blown away. I've collected all the tapes out there, and some are really cool, but this Rucker Park one slams on all those others. Why? Because its the only one that has KOBE and other NBA starz like Iverson, Marbury, Marion going toe to toe with these sick street ballers like Bone Collector, Tank, Whole Lotta Game, and some others whose names I can't remember. These guys do some insane stuff in this Rucker Park tornament up in Harlem USA. Plus, it came with a bangin' free CD with Fat Joe, Moe Mansun, Mobb Deep, which I didn't even no I was getting till I opened the box. Nobody be sorry they pick this one up.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Rucker Park, February 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Rucker Park - The Second Season [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This DVD ROCKS! Kobe slammin' with the best street ballers in the nation! Way too cool. This is where the action is for anyone that ever played street basketball or thought they were any good at it. Rucker Park is the meca for street b-ball and this video tells you why. Seeing NBA stars play with the greatest street players on the same court is pure magic. Great bonus CD with tracks from Fat Joe and Mobb Deep. It doesn't get any better than this!