MARK TEE

FOUNDER

My basketball pedigree was established as a youth competing against the great young athletes of Riverside, California and throughout the Inland Empire, an area that has produced Olympic Gold Medalist and Hall of Famers in a variety of sports.  This elite group includes Cheryl and Reggie Miller.  In high school I regularly competed against teams with two or three future D1 athletes. 

I had a respectable basketball career:  I am in my high school's Hall of Fame, I was captain of the first  Loyola Marymount University Men’s Basketball team’s to set a NCAA team scoring record under coach Paul Westhead. Upon graduation from Loyola Marymount University, I was awarded the Male Student-Athlete of the Year, had earned one honorable mention for all conference, and was listed in the top ten of multiple record categories.  Today, my name is still in the top ten of a few categories.

Playing for coach Paul Westhead, “The Guru of Go" inspired the idea of playing basketball differently.  Coach Westhead's  89 - 90 Loyola Marymount University is considered one of the top collegiate teams in NCAA history.  That team averaged 23 three point attempts per game that season.

Coach Westhead was three decades ahead of the self declared stewards of the game.  

Like my college coach, I am willing to explore a different way to play the game of basketball.

To sum up the rest of the story.  I compare my story to Noah and the Ark. 

After reading Bill Gates ' book The Road Ahead in 1997,  I experienced a series of events which resulted in the first documentation of a vision of a network of no backboard smart facilities.  I wrote that down in 2000. 

In 2002, I was issued a United States patent for a Basketball Game, Apparatus, and Method of Play.

I produced a series of proof of content events between 2004 and 2007 resulting in overwhelming positive feedback from players and spectators. 

Unable to make any progress with developing television programming by 2011.  I began a very restless wait for the right technologies that would enable me to move forward without the friction of having to work through legacy media distribution channels.

The wait is over.   

Be Blessed

Mark T. Armstrong aka Coach 1891, aka MARK TEE

Creator of Basketball-the-Remix and Founder of the No Backboard Basketball League