A YouTube Legend Battles for His Basketball Future

It’s Memorial Day 2009. Inside Cupertino High’s dimly lit gymnasium, two traveling teams of teenage basketball stars tip off in the championship game of a weekend tournament. Local hoop-heads have pined for this matchup, which pits the underdog Bay Area Hoosiers against the Drew Gooden Soldiers, the West Coast’s storied club basketball kings

The Soldiers are sponsored by an NBA player. They count LeBron James among alumni and regularly showcase the nation’s top hoops talent to elite college coaches. This year’s edition features the Bay Area’s best young players along with ringers brought in from out of state, prospects who will go on to be ranked among the country’s best basketball recruits and who will play in All-American games. Read more...