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Essentially a highlight reel of thrilling moments from New York City streetball, Slam from the Street is not so much another narrative about America's premiere playground sport as it is an impressionistic whirl of slam dunks, gravity defiance, and gritty competition. Set to some uncompromising, aggressive hip-hop and rap (and the occasional, trenchant piece of social commentary by some of the key players in New York's tough, amateur circuit), Slam plays its video content like an overworked turntable, messing with speed, camera angles, and rhythms toward an overall entertaining and somehow democratizing effect. Visit the Kingston or West 4th Street Classic Tournaments for raucous team action, or meet dominance-prone players like Biz (a schoolteacher off court), Tone Springer of the Harlem Wizards, Andre Duke (250 dunks in 10 years), and Charles Jones (an NCAA top scorer in 1996-97 and NBA draftee in '98). --Tom Keogh
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