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You know it’s going to be a great basketball World Cup, when the mascot is a cat who plays basketball. A dream!

This month, UNDRCRWN honors the greatest Dynasties of all time. Whether for their pure domination or forever evolving the game- Chi Town, Michigan, Sin City, Bean Town and Inglewood are part of the UNDRCRWN “Dynasty” series.

Interesting article on the NY Times.

Read it here.

This dudes are amazing!

Check them out. This video is fantastic. Great way to spend the summer with your friends. Very talented:

They look like players in NBA Hang Time, when you could do the “double dunk”.
“Double dunk” it’s when one player in the act of dunking, while flying and spinning, could pass the ball to the other player who was actually flying higher than him for a superdunk.

This on my way home. Enjoying this everyday. I saw it growing from just bananas, to mushrooms, to stars and turtles. It’s fun! It’s Portland Mario Kart bike lane:

It reminds me a lot of the Droga5 ad for Guitar hero:

More from the World Basketball Festival in NY. This event is heavily branded, but the quality and variety of every piece keeps blowing my mind. And they teams haven’t even played yet. Why am I not there experiencing this?

Anyway.

These sculptures are a collaboration between the Portland based firm Lit Workshop, and the Portland Art Institute. You can find them hanging at Nike Town NY.

Every player has been crafted from “super dense foam” (similar to mattress foam) then laser cut and bonded together, before being hand-painted.

Hilariously, the sculptures are super flexible, so they were just folded up and shipped by truck from Portland to New York, Niketown unloaded the giant sculptures, they sprung to life and then were hanged by cables from the ceiling.

The evolution of the game. Traced – and literally borrowed – from the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. From the 1930s Harlem Renaissance to vintage Michael Jordan. 2010 China FIBA jerseys to NYC’s most iconic streetballers. Plus 55-inch touch screens putting the evolution behind making ballers better on digital blast. Celebrating 100 years of innovation at the World Basketball Festival at The Ball Room.