Nike Battlegrounds: Ball or Fall (2003)

NIKE BATTLEGROUNDS: BALL OR FALL highlights the best moments from the Nike Battlegrounds street basketball tournament, which took place in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philly, and Toronto. A "king of the court" was picked in each town, then those winners were picked to battle it out in a special one-on-one tournament in New York for a chance at a cash prize and an endorsement deal.

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A brand new feature film, based on the life of two streetballers will headline the Urban World/BET Film Festival in Manhattan next month.

The story centers on two junior college basketball players from broken homes in St. Louis, one from the south side, the other from the north, but both hoping to use sports as their escape.

"This could be any neighborhood in the U.S.," said Matthew Krentz, the film's writer, director and co-star opposite former Missouri guard Jimmy McKinney and Patrick Rooney. "There's hundreds of thousands of athletes who aren't going pro, who are just trying to get scholarships and coping with life on a daily basis.

"And there's a lot of stuff in their environments that are holding them back."

McKinney, 24, was a standout at Vashon High School before entering Missouri as a highly heralded recruit. Though his college career was somewhat frustrating, he's been successful in three seasons playing professionally in Germany.

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