PROGRAMS

Edgemont Hoops is your source for all basketball activities in the Edgemont community. We are the home of Edgemont travel basketball and also offer training, clinics, and open gym/scrimmage opportunities for Edgemont children of all ages.

To learn more about Edgemont Recreation Corporation basketball and Edgemont High School programs, click on the appropriate link below.

EDGEMONT RECREATION

EDGEMONT HIGH SCHOOL

HOOP EDUCATION CENTER

1. THE PISTOL INVENTED THE “RONDO”
The ball fake move commonly credited to Rajan Rondo was in fact pioneered by Pistol Pete Maravich.

See how Edgemont’s Avery Yee used the move effectively in a playoff game.

2. DEEFENSIVE TIP OF THE DAY
“Don’t reach, young blood.” — Uncle Drew.

3. DIMINUTIVE LEGENDS
Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues stood all of 5’3″ but nonetheless was a star point guard for famed Dunbar High School in Baltimore, where his tenacity led the team to a #1 U.S. ranking in 1983.

Muggsy had a successful career at Wake Forest and in the NBA. He remains an inspiration for vertically challenged basketball players everywhere.

4. SPORTSMANSHIP FOCUS

5. GLOSSARY
Posterizing a player involves dunking the ball over the top or in front of another player in such a forceful and/or picturesque manner that it may appear on a poster.

6. BACK IN THE DAY
Jason Williams was one of the NBA’s great showmen. See his incredible highlight reel.

7. QUOTES
“I like slam-dunks, take me to the hoop, my favorite play is the alley-oop, I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and go…” — Rapper Kurtis Blow in “Basketball.”