Rafer Alston (Skip To my Lou) on Being First Streetball Player to Join NBA (Part 5) 

Rafer Alston had a legit NBA career .. starter on almost every team he was on , solid playoff player

THE AND1 game kept me out of trouble!

AND 1 gave me so much inspiration as a kid all of the players just pure talent n creativity........yu gotta luv AND 1 & for what it done for the game of basketball. R.I.P. to flash, Alimoe aka The Blacc Widow & escalade.💯

Skip, alimoe, and AO were elite ball players who played at NBA level. LEGENDS

Listening to Rafer talk you wonder why he is not announcing basketball games...or on a major TV platform.....dude really has a colorful way of expressing his points, and obviously knows the game...frfr 🤔

I love that draft day story. Rafer's so real and humble

I remember Skip at Fresno City/Fresno State days. He was kinda wildin!!!😁 He's grown and matured by leaps and bounds since then. He and Larry Abney shared an apartment in The California's at the time. I remember they had this big ass US map on the wall with pins in it. Each 📌 indicated where basketball had taken them. That was really cool to see. Salute to the struggle!! Bulldog Proud!!! Props from a fellow CSUF Graduate 2000!!✊🏿👍🏿💯

A true street ball Legend. Ill always remember him from and1 and his time with Orlando Magic

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So much respect for this dude. He has always had to tiptoe lines between the street and the NBA and he has always done it with such class. He was an absolute solid NBA player with flashes of being elite and a certified street ball legend. One of the most memorable players in basketball history.

Not just the first, but the ONLY one! My man set the bar and became an instant legend.

Joe Hammond,earl. M and pee wee Kirkland are all legends‼️📌💯

AND1 popped off the streetball scene! Inspired the world! Legendary!

Great job VLAD. You letting SKIP tell his story.

Get hot sauce 😂 or sick wit it..shout to to Spyder man and A.O 😂 DAMN I MISS THAT SHOW

Such a gentleman ‼️✊🏽

Use to ride to work with my cuz in Milwaukee, skip ain't have a car, he rode in the back seat, then kept the car and picked us up from work at Norris Adolescent Center...in 99

Why he look like shotti lil big brother lmao

RAFER, the struggle was real. I watched you, Tramain, Pettis, Ely and Dominick Young and even Chris Herron do the dam thang up close at Selland Arena. I was recruited hard by Tarkanian but I ended up at OSU. I used to play pickup with you guys in the women’s Gym. It was a good run holla at me if you ever make it back to The No !

Skippppppp was the coldest back in and1 days i was a fan in his nba career from and 1 he didn't age

That's my guy guy...thank you Vlad I don't know what to do without you bro. My missing link I even had to go back to the Highlights the product man in the building!!!Price is right all day!💯

Watched skip play for and1 and watched him play for Houston rockets that was a blessing....

Great interview Glad

Not sure about you all, but I love listening to Skip talk so much that I can literally listen to him talk FOR HOURS LOL! His stories yo! I always liked him as a player and person! My favorite And 1 player EVER! Thank you for these videos!

Bless ur heart bro's. Some youngsters gone know that they can succeed indeed..roger that..

AO should've definitely played in the NBA. Happy for Skip proved that street ballers have what it takes to make it.

Good interview

This was when NYC was known for basketball nowadays NYC trying to be like London in rap & soccer…their knocking down basketball courts & replacing them wit soccer goals

I couldn't play "school ball". Coaches were mad because I don't know the BASICS. 5ft 10inch, mad-D, good ball control, spicy J, and a 38inch vert. Habitual "5-second rule" offender.

I appreciate him keeping it real

The one and only SKIP ALSTON‼️

I couldn't get 23 so I took 11 when I was younger cuz of skip! Was a fan of #3 too lol

Such a Dope story! Thx Vlad

I remember the 1st time me and my brother Shaun saw this street ball doc on TNT, we went outside & started imitating The Future dancing while dribbling lol

Earl Manigault... Undersize Guard King 💯

Legendary.. Met AND 1 In my city “Bridgeton NJ” 2001-02 when they played at BHS , Alimoe & skip ain’t come though but I did get that Hot sauce & the future order graph Alston goated Ballislife

I used to love watchin and1 on tv back in the nba

Most people don't realize though that before And1 he balled out at Fresno State. Yes he is from NYC and grew up on the Playgrounds but I think people fail to realize (prior to watching this interview)he did indeed have a good college career.

I'm happy for this brother

Love this guy! Wait. Dr. J was a street baller, Wilt and Kareem too. Rutger Park. So maybe not the first?

Dope draft day story!!!!!!!!

I remember my older cousins & Watching the and1 tapes & running to the park trying to be mimic them 🤣🤣🤣 legendary era

AND 1, kids nowadays will never know what they lost, AND 1 made us fight in the court and be friends right after that, and kept a lot of health and hooping All day long, great memories, beautiful times

He went to college... He wasn't Drafted off the playground 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

BUCK 4 LIFE 414 I met this guy at an North Division and 1 event he cool asf 😎👌

Dope story.

Eagerly waiting for the Sam Mitchell conversation.

Is he ever gonna ask him why’d he slap 👋🏾 tf outta the back of Eddie House’s Head? Somebody needs to make that 30 for 30 happen.

I remember meeting skip and hot sauce Escalade 1/2 man was so surreal watching my brother cross them up. lol great memories

I miss the And 1 mixtapes & tours

Aka Skip to my Lou dude could ball in had handles in a legend in both street ball in nba

AND 1 !!!! Hell yeah!!!! Hot sauce was my favorite.

Skip & Alimoe had the ball on a string handles was on elite level better than NBA guards

Word Up

Young folks might not know what Skip and the rest of the and1 guys did to revolutionize the game of basketball. Love it or hate it. They changed the game from your local parks to the league. A.I., Shamgod, Skip and Hot Sauce made 6'11 dudes feel like they had to have a cross over.

He’s on his Soulja Boy shi‼️😂😂😂🆙📌📌

Karlton hines was the real tragedy of them all

Legend status

And1 definitely something special

Remember when Skip slapped Eddie House in the back of the head cause he was lightning his ass up from the 3 in the playoffs??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This story is so dope they transcended the NBA and changed basketball 4 eva

Skip to My Lou kind of looks like Shotti now

Joe Hammond actually still live in Harlem I use to wrk in the building he live in bout 2 yrs ago.. super humble cool funny dude

Skip made the NBA, Half man half Amazing, AO, Alimoe and Headache could also have made the league if they took that route.

Respect to vlad for this but Vlad. We need hot sauce bro!!!

Brian Scott was a REAL ONE.. GO CHECK HIS STOREY OUT

In the 90’s there was only one song... “Like Mike If I could Be Like Mike Like Mike Oh, if I could Be Like Mike”

Skip is a pretty smart dude. Nice.

He needs a movie about his life

He was Extremely underrated I think.

Damn,Glad is undefeated 🔥🔥

Facts ny metro area summer league outside

Long overdue what’s good coach skip

He was loved in H Town.

He was acually good and wasnt supposed to be

that E HOUSE CUFFF LOL

Skip. Legnedary. Always.

The problem was with AND1 in Hungary way back that kids were not in the basketball saw first AND1 and they didn't have the fundamentals of playing basketball...and they didn't care at all...so they couldn't shoot, they couldn't pass, they couldn't play team plays, they only tried to do these dribble sh*t and crossovers so lots of kids messed up whole games....so other streetball players in the 90s like myself hated AND1. Especially cos we watched lots of MJ and NBA videos.

When I was in the 5th grade , I woke up and saw Chris Brown goin at wit Hot Sauce. Streetball was DIFFERENT

The NBA Higher Ups Tarnished His Career. They Wanted To Stop His Shine. George Carol Played A Role In That.

Big fan vlad

Skip legendary

SKIP 2MY LOU!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

G. O. A. T.

The best street baller I ever seen was a young man named Buford “Buttocks” P. Jenkins. Beat baller I ever seen out of Buttery Butt, Oklahoma

Lloyd Daniels was first💯 salute to skip seen him down there when he got the name💪🏾we thought he was the dancing duggy bro🤣🤣🤣

How Vlad just bypass his college career with his legendary coach? Wth

Remember spida would hang from the rim upside down lol

Bro was by himself at a bar, that shit is wild but real asf. Real killa!

0:54 He had to say it 5 times before I figured out he was saying “tournaments”.

Stress jail time looking over your shoulder etc Pee Wee was a fool for not taking that contract ..smdh

He looks like Shotti from Tre way

And I think the last one

Who else made cause I only remember Skip making it. I know some And 1 players had brothers in the NBA like 50. His brother was Kenyon Martin.

no agent😒😂skip you a legend💪

Back in the And 1 days, I used to think if Hot Sauce went to the NBA he would be unstoppable. now that I’m more older and have a higher basketball IQ, he wouldn’t last too long. First of all he’s 5’9, and he travels a lot, and doesn’t have any other notable attributes. other than entertainment, he’s not very useful.

Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

Lloyd Daniels? Yell

I thought it was that dude that was with 69…. trey way!!!! Lmao

Shoutout 2 Zeke!!!!!!