Basketball-the-Remix is a faster, more challenging and more entertaining game of basketball. Twenty innovations to the game force more intense play and demand a higher level of basketball skill. Through playing Basketball-the-Remix, players play at a faster pace, increase their stamina and improve their scoring ability. The United States patent for Basketball-the-Remix represents the first sport invented by an African-American in over 100 years. Most importantly, if you can play basketball you can play Basketball-the-Remix.
Basketball-the-Remix further provides the opportunity to build a new business model within the sports entertainment industry. Our model is a hybrid of the Closed League System that predominates in the United States and the Club Promotional System that predominates in Europe. The European club system provides a blueprint for integrating athletic facilities and services into urban communities, providing intensive athletic training, community service and developing gifted athletes.
Basketball-the-Remix franchises will promote semi-professional and recreational competitions that provide inexpensive family entertainment as well as create job and internship opportunities for young people and other members of the community. Finally, each franchise will build and maintain an elite community team that barnstorms against other "Basketball-the-Remix" franchises and street-ball crews, as well as college and semi-professional basketball teams.
In essence, "Basketball-the-Remix" represents the creation of a network of professional community basketball franchises that field competitive professional teams, provide local recreational and fitness services and, most importantly, serve their communities through leveraging basketball to occupy our young people while providing the additional benefits of both academic and life skills training.
In "Basketball-the-Remix", Change the Game Change Communities is reinventing the game of basketball. We desire to plant this new game of basketball in urban communities across the country through partnerships with local business and community leaders. Growing these franchises into independent, branded basketball organizations with professional ranking, respect, and receipts. By modeling pre-NBA black basketball franchises and leveraging technology and our abundance of available athletic talent, "Basketball-the-Remix" is building a network of competitive franchises that will solidify to form a powerful new league. The "Basketball-the-Remix" model is crucial to breaking the economic stronghold on basketball and redirects some of those billions of dollars the game generates into our communities.
Both Dr. James Naismith, who invented basketball and Holcombe Rucker, the father of modern Streetball, impacted millions of lives but reaped little financial gain for their significant contributions to the game. Today there are many examples of prospering for-profit businesses whose mission is to make a positive impact. "Basketball-the-Remix's" primary goal is changing communities by becoming the game of choice across African America, which by extension changes the game of business in African America. These changes will foster the emergence of new urban basketball brands, which both fulfill the original intent of basketball and expand that intent into greater economic participation among African-Americans and urban communities.
This booklet is my thesis about why African-American community leaders, educators, and disenfranchised urban basketball players should support "Basketball-the-Remix"; in the following pages, I will demonstrate the power of basketball to build lives. Improving lives was Dr. Naismith's intent in inventing basketball. Blacks have made tremendous contributions to the game of basketball; yet, professional basketball does not honor the entrepreneurial heritage of pre-NBA black basketball. I will show that streetball's original intent and example hold the key to breaking the stranglehold that the NBA, FIBA, NCAA, and NIKE have on basketball, reconnect the African-American community with the heritage of black basketball and redirect billions of dollars into urban communities across the country.
If my argument is sufficient to prompt consideration of my assertions, I have accomplished my purpose in writing this booklet. I want to create a dialogue, incite a discussion that will lead to support and momentum for "Basketball-the-Remix".
