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The Nike Elite Youth Basketball League, [1] [2] also known as Nike EYBL, or simply EYBL, is a basketball circuit for teams of players aged 17 and under. The circuit was founded in 2010 [3] and is composed of AAU travel teams. [4] Both boys and girls play in the EYBL in their respective categories.
AAU basketball was particularly strong in the Midwest, Southwest and West Coast, where the NBA had not yet established a presence. [3] [4] The top teams also played in the National Industrial Basketball League, which began play in the 1947–48 season, [5] two years before the establishment of the NBA. The NIBL had as many as eleven teams for ...
AAU teams want to be sponsored to receive free gear from shoe companies—Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour—to help them recruit players. Shoe companies want their AAU teams to have the best players to raise the profile of their tournaments and to funnel to the college teams sponsored by their company.
What began with two boys' AAU teams playing under the Best Virginia name turned into four a year later, ranging from grades 5th-8th. Those teams were represented by players from Uniontown, Pa. to ...
The sixth-grade team beat the Schenectady Envy, 62-50 in the championship game. Rye's Colin Swartz was named tournament MVP and was placed on the all-tournament first team.
A 2013 AAU youth basketball documentary Little Ballers, was televised by Nickelodeon in 2015, [47] as the first documentary to be aired on NickSports. [48] The film was directed by Crystal McCrary and featured AAU youth team New Heights, featuring Cole Anthony, who is her son. [49]
Skechers' unlikely argument: It could have gained a foothold in the basketball shoe market were the playing field level. Skechers sues Adidas over alleged payments to basketball prospects Skip to ...
Under Armour was founded on September 25, 1996, by Kevin Plank, a then-24 year old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team. Plank initially began the business from his grandmother's basement in Washington, D.C. [ 4 ] He spent his time traveling along the East Coast with nothing but apparel in the trunk of his car.