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

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.

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

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

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!!✊🏿👍🏿💯

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

Great job VLAD. You letting SKIP tell his story.

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

Such a gentleman ‼️✊🏽

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

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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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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 get 23 so I took 11 when I was younger cuz of skip! Was a fan of #3 too lol

The one and only SKIP ALSTON‼️

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.

Such a Dope story! Thx Vlad

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

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

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 remember when he was a kid playing at Rucker park he was awesomely good

Earl Manigault... Undersize Guard King 💯

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

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??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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

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

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

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

Skip to My Lou kind of looks like Shotti now

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‼️😂😂😂🆙📌📌

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”

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

He needs a movie about his life

Karlton hines was the real tragedy of them all

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

I'm happy for this brother

Eagerly waiting for the Sam Mitchell conversation.

I appreciate him keeping it real

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

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 is a pretty smart dude. Nice.

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

He was acually good and wasnt supposed to be

Word Up

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

And1 definitely something special

He was Extremely underrated I think.

Damn,Glad is undefeated 🔥🔥

I miss the And 1 mixtapes & tours

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

Good interview

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

Dope story.

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

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.

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

Legend status

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

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

man i heard a story that peewee kirkland was so cold he gave a team like 130 points or something like that in a game he scored 130 in a game..or something i wish i could have seen video of this dude hooping..

Long overdue what’s good coach skip

Remember spida would hang from the rim upside down lol

that E HOUSE CUFFF LOL

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

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

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.

Main Event was hating lol

He looks like Shotti from Tre way

7:06 he almost said rock but switched to basketball 😭

He was loved in H Town.

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

Skip. Legnedary. Always.

Yo why I thought this was shotti from treyway for a minute lmao! They gotta be related hahahaha skip to my lou was the man though

no agent😒😂skip you a legend💪

Facts ny metro area summer league outside

We’re all here after the 30 for 30 last night on ESPN

Shotti think he slick

SKIP 2MY LOU!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;"

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

Skip legendary

G. O. A. T.

He's a true New yorker by not saying he wanted to be like Jordan lol

Shoutout 2 Zeke!!!!!!

Big fan vlad