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• THE PROFESSOR BASKETBALL PRO

25 inside-out dribbles with your non-dominant hand.Also known as the fake crossover, an inside-out dribble entails moving the ball as if you're going to cross over, but at the last minute flip your wrist so the ball stays with whichever hand you're dribbling with. 25 "inside-out" dribbles with your dominant hand.25 dribbles crossing over every other one (right, right-to-left, left, left-to-right, right, right-to-left, etc.).25 crossover dribbles (right-to-left, left-to-right, right-to-left, etc.).25 dribbles with your non-dominant hand.Have your knees bent and put your non-dominant arm out to shield the ball from defenders. If you can do the whole progression, it's 250 dribbles. Ideally, you wouldn't go to the next step until you master the one in front of you.

When the 20 kids lined up, Boucher took them through a ball-handling warmup that starts simple and gets progressively more challenging. There, The Professor grabbed the microphone and urged members of the Challengers Boys and Girls Club of South Central Los Angeles to come down to the court and do a quick skills clinic. "Master the fundamentals first," Boucher said, "and then if you want to gravitate to more of a show mode, you're able to do that and it's not improper."īoucher and the Ball Up players made an appearance in Los Angeles recently. In Boucher's mind, there's room for both. He was 18 years old.īoucher still travels the world-now with Ball Up-but he's hoping his message is as much about playing good basketball as it is about playing flashy basketball. Boucher decided to try out, made the team, then impressed the And1 crew enough during the game that night to be invited onto the traveling squad permanently. There, And1 held an open run to put together a team that would compete against the current And1 squad that night. In 2003, Boucher and his brother went to an And1 Mixtape Tour stop in Portland, Ore. So he walked on at Chemeketa Community College and played one season there. He grew up in Oregon and received no scholarship offers after a successful high school basketball career. He stands about 5-foot-9 and weighs 150 pounds, yet he's held his own on the streetball circuit for almost 10 years now-first with the And1 Mixtape Tour, and now with the Ball Up streetball league. See him in person for the first time and you can't help but marvel at how small he is. After that was mastered, then he was able to add what he calls "the showtime" aspect of his game.īoucher's story is unlike any other player making a living playing basketball. What the kids didn't see was all the work Boucher put in as a teenager to be a fundamentally strong ball-handler.

"They only saw highlights and they tried to emulate that directly at a young age." "I saw kids emulating our moves and they weren't really grasping the fundamentals," Boucher said. But as he travels all over the world and sees young basketball players trying to imitate his moves, he can't help but think that a different message needs to get through to them. The Professor has handles, and he can definitely do some crazy things with the ball. For years, Grayson Boucher-also known as The Professor-had his playground-style highlights aired constantly on ESPN as part of the And1 Mixtape Tour. The Professor is ready to teach.Ĭertainly, a player known exclusively for his streetball skills can't possibly have a lesson plan like this. Here’s Grayson talking about the funny could have been near death experience.Listen up, young players. I repeat, Yes, Grayson “The Professor” Boucher is still alive and on tour with Ballup and did not die after throwing the ball of the face of Manny Pacquiao. You might be thinking it’s not that wise to throw the ball off the face of a frustrated defender, especially one that is much bigger than you, but The Professor has no fear and luckily for him is one lucky MF too because he once did this move on boxer Manny Pacquiao! Yes, he threw the ball off the face of Manny Pacquiao.

THE PROFESSOR BASKETBALL PRO

Like Boozer, the Chinese pro took exception and almost started an international riot between him and The Professor’s Ballup teammates. No player has probably done this “disrespectful” but oh so awesome move to defenders around the world more than The Professor and during a Chinese Exhibition Tour (with Allen Iverson), class was in session as The Professor found the 6’8 Chinese version of Carlos Boozer and gave him a demonstration of the move.