Last year, Rajon Rondo and Red Bull teamed up in a big way to give back to the City of Boston by creating Boston’s Got Wings. For every steal Rondo recorded (153 in only 68 games), $500 was donated to the Boston Parks and Recreation Department to refurbish basketball courts throughout the city, netting the parks $76,500.
Rondo, Red Bull and Boston’s Got Wings is back this season, and it’s even bigger and better than last year. Read More »
If you think you have the next big idea, Red Bull is presenting you with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
At Launchpad, Red Bull’s taking someone’s big idea and making it real. Why not make it yours? We’ve seen what they can do when they put their weight behind something – the sky’s the limit here. Read More »
With NBA All-Star fan voting winding down and ending on January 31st, Rajon Rondo‘s family at Red Bull are trying get him one last push to get him to Orlando in February.
They released this video today to urge fans to support Rajon’s All-Star bid – as of January 19th, Rondo ranked third among guards in the East behind Derrick Rose and Dwyane Wade. The action clips are taken from Rajon’s charity game at Harvard during the summer. Check it out here: Read More »
Immediately following a Nets game in New Jersey last week, D-Will was scheduled to hop on a Red Bull helicopter in NJ to fly over the west side of Manhattan for a party being thrown in his honor by Red Bull to officially welcome him to the family. But havoc created by torrential rain and winds forced D-Will to find other means of making it to his own party. This is what went down: Read More »
The end of the NBA Lockout not only signifies the return of pro basketball, but also the abrupt end of all the side projects and budding non-hoops careers that players had been pursuing during their down time.
Apparently, Blake Griffin‘s professional ping-pong career is one of those casualties, with the end coming at the hands of this model/ping-pong pro Soo Yeon Lee. Read More »
Perhaps it never occurred to Rajon Rondo’s loudest critics that the NBA All-Star point guard has rarely been a big-time scorer because he’s rarely had to be.
From his star-making high school senior year at Oak Hill Academy, to his collegiate run at Kentucky, to his pro tenure with the Celtics, Rondo has gone from one loaded powerhouse of a team to another. He shared the court with All-American and eventual NBA standout Josh Smith at Oak Hill, with Joe Crawford at UK (the school’s 19th all-time leading scorer), and has played alongside future Hall of Famers Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Shaquille O’Neal in Boston. The last time Rondo was asked to carry the scoring load for a team, he dropped 27.9 points per game as a junior at Eastern High School in Louisville. Read More »
We told you about the tournament, but if you weren’t one of the select few that made it to Alcatraz on Saturday night for the 2011 Red Bull King of the Rock tournament final, see what went down.
It was the greatest 8-to-6 basketball game you’ll ever see.
Andre Emmett, formerly of the Memphis Grizzlies and Bobby Knight’s Texas Tech program (where he is the all-time leading scorer), was going 1-on-1 with Vili Morton, a relative unknown who played college ball at California-Riverside and now manages basketball training programs at 24 Hour Fitness gyms in the Bay Area. On paper it shouldn’t have been close. Read More »
This is it. After battling it out on the red hot blacktops of the world’s playgrounds all summer, 64 of the best one-on-one players from the United States, Europe, and Asia have punched their tickets to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco for the finals of The Red Bull King of the Rock Tournament. The grand prize is $10,000 and winner takes all this Saturday. Read More »
On Saturday morning, we were on hand in Norfolk, Virginia for the latest qualifier in the massive Red Bull King of the Rock tournament. We had already witnessed some serious talent in “major” cities like NYC, Philly, Boston, and Washington, D.C. (the winners of each market all have a legit shot at taking the whole thing on Alcatraz), so we didn’t know what to expect in Norfolk. What we found was that Virginia may have brought the most overall talent of any qualifier anywhere to the courts at Lafayette Park on Saturday morning. These guys were killers, battling to the very end in stifling heat and humidity, nobody going out without putting up a savage fight to the finish. Read More »
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