Our White Men Can Jump, say Gwizzlies officials
Published on July 1, 2004 under American Basketball Association (ABA)
Atlanta Vision News Release
Popular film producer Spike Lee movie,"White men can't Jump" is not the images you will see when the 2004 ABA Gwinnett Gwizzlies Summer Pro League team take the court next weekend July 10-11. The Gwizzlies team will play in the famed NBA Long Beach Summer Pro League and has stocked a team with young white men who can jump,run and shoot.
Leading the the team is guard Sam Cox, a 6'8 ballplayer with Hollywood movie star looks, who was the 1999 State of Alabama Slam Dunk winner. Noah Shell a 6"7 standout at Gwinnett Brookwood High School,I an Hanovan 6"6 just finished playing in Holland, Ned Rolsma 7"0 and 7"4 John Fippen who recently had a workout with the NBA San Antonio Spurs.
Gwizzlies CEO/Owner Embry Malone who use to guard his teammate Dennis (airplane) Johnson at Pepperdine University and watch and played against Darrell Griffith, once known as Dr. Dunkenstein in the NBA, grew up in the same neighborhood with Griffith, says the Gwizzlies leapers are the real deal.
"If we were playing pickup basketball and you had to pick ballplayers,I think Dennis Johnson and Darrell Griffith would pick our Gwizzlies leapers," says Malone.
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