加拿大街球手Ghost与Killa Krossover Tour 2006街球巡回赛

在街头篮球的世界，街球传奇高手通常诞生于底特律、纽约以及洛杉矶这样的城市，如Hot Sauce,High Rizer,Sik Wit It和High Octane等，但有一位叫做Michael Zanidean的街球手，他来自多伦多...

Zanidean，通常在球场上被称作"Ghost"，他将参加在加拿大航空中心(Air Canada Center)举办的Killa Krossover Tour 2006街球巡回赛，Ghost是一周前公开选拔出来的本地选手之一...这次街球巡回赛是一次真*篮球和hip hop结合的聚会...

Zanidean说：“街头篮球的到来是加拿大的一件盛事，它是如此真实”，他提出现在很多街头篮球的东西是NBA无法提供给球迷的。Ghost说“很多人以为篮球就是‘传，投，停，三威胁’”，但事实并非如此。

加拿大街球手Ghost

Ghost认为篮球就是娱乐，如果人们花钱去看比赛，就应该让他们笑起来，就应该让小孩非常开心地离开比，应该尽量保持篮球的活力，保持街球头篮球的活力。

Killa Krossover Tour 2006街球巡回赛的目的之一就是让顶尖的街球手齐聚多伦多并一起为促进街球的发展而努力...也有不少的街球手希望像拉夫-阿尔斯通一样能进入NBA功成名就...

“Killa Krossover Tour将致力于展现独特的街球魅力和高难的街球技巧...”
（以上由无招篮球-www.HoopChina.com简译）

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In the world of street basketball, legends are born on the concrete courts of inner city Detroit, the school yards of New York and the barrios of Los Angeles.

The biggest stars go by names such as Hot Sauce, High Rizer, Sik Wit It and High Octane.

But some also come from Toronto and have a name like Michael Zanidean.

Zanidean, who is known as Ghost among street players in his downtown neighbourhood, will suit up tomorrow against the world's best streetballers in an exhibition game at the Air Canada Centre and on Saturday at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton in the Killa Krossover Tour 2006.

He was among a throng of local players who attended an open try-out a week ago to take part in the game.

Zanidean said yesterday that the event brings a level of excitement to basketball that, he claims, is unlike anything ever seen in Canada.

The exhibition is part real basketball, part hip-hop music and all excitement according to the 21-year-old, who enrolled at Toronto Academy Prep School hoping to land a U.S. college scholarship after finishing his high school career in his native Vancouver.

When that didn't pan out Zanidean honed his skills on Toronto's playground courts and found his game.

"This is great for Canada that streetball is coming," Zanidean said. "Streetball is real."

He complained that basketball as it is played in the NBA doesn't give the fans what they can get from streetball.

"A lot of people (in Toronto) think that basketball has to be 'pass, shoot, stop, triple threat,' " Zanidean said. "But there are so many players who are playground legends out there who don't get their shine because people hate on the fact that we like to do the dribble to please the crowd."

It's all about entertainment, he said.

"If people are going to pay money to come watch a game," he said, "I want them to smile; I want kids to leave the game happy, I want them to know my name."

Zanidean said that what sold him on streetball was the fact that he envisions this kind of game being the future of basketball.

"It represents the artistic side of the whole sport," he said. "I think this is going to keep basketball alive and keep streetball even more alive."

On the serious side, spokesman Lowell Hall said that one of the goals of the event is to give the top streetball players in the Toronto-Hamilton area an outlet for their talents.

"The goal of the Killa Krossover Tour is to bring the top streetball players together to promote streetball and form an alliance in an effort to promote other forms of basketball," Hall said. "The importance of the tour is to entertain all audiences that love the game of basketball."

While some streetballers make it to the NBA -- the best known being former Toronto Raptor Rafer Alston -- most never get a national stage for their talents.

"The Killa Krossover Tour is dedicated to showcasing the unique and extraordinary playground-style basketball skills of talented legends across the country in an organized, and yet highly competitive environment," Hall said.