Each night ESPN’s Sports Center, NBA.com and YouTube are flooded with clips of players soaring through the air for rim rocking dunks, buzzer beating three-pointers or blocked shots that make your jaw drop in amazement. While those are all entertaining plays, teams who win Championships need players who are willing to get a little dirty and do the little things to help their team win. As valuable and crucial as these players are to their respective teams success, these players rarely get the credit or respect that they deserve. With that in mind, the First Annual Hoops Addict Floor Burn Tournament will kick off this week.

By Ryan McNeill
For this Hoops Addict Podcast I was able to secure an interview with Marcus Davenport to talk about his independent basketball documentary Flint Star. Some of the things that we talked about were his reasons for creating this documentary, what the documentary is about, why he chose to document the Flint basketball community [...]

By Ryan McNeill
This weekend I was fortunate enough to watch the basketball documentary “With This Rock.” This DVD is an independent release and doesn’t have the same flash or production as ESPN’s “Through the Fire” or the ‘90’s classic “Hoop Dreams” but it does an excellent job capturing the politics and corruption involved with basketball [...]

This week I’ve mentioned the economic hardships of growing up in Flint, but I’ve received some emails reminding me that I’ve failed to provide you with stats to back this up. According to a 2000 census, 124,943 people live in Flint, it has an unemployment rate of 12.9% and 18,832,000 residents don’t have a diploma [...]

A lot of basketball fans are familiar with names like Morris Peterson, Mateen Cleaves, Charlie Bell, Eddie Robinson, Glen Rice and Latrell Sprewell, but there are lots of amazing basketball players from Flint that basketball fans haven’t heard of.
As most hoop fans know, basketball is full of stories about great playground players or high school [...]

Earlier this month I was given a copy of the basketball documentary Flint Star by it’s director Marcus Davenport to view and then write about on Hoops Addict. When Marcus first approached me about writing about his documentary I was hesitant at because aside from Hoop Dreams there haven’t been any basketball documentaries that have [...]