Streetballer

Streetball (street basketball) or street basketball (streetball) is a variation of basketball typically played on outdoor courts, featuring significantly less formal structure and enforcement of the game's rules. As such, its format is more conducive to allowing players to publicly showcase their own individual skills. Streetball (street basketball) is often regarded as another element of the Hip Hop culture. Streetball (street basketball) may also refer to other urban sports played on asphalt. It is particularly big in New York City.

Some places and cities in the United States have organized streetball programs, operated similarly to midnight basketball programs. Many cities also host their own weekend-long streetball tournaments, with Hoop-It-Up and the Houston Rockets' Blacktop Battle being two of the most popular. Since the mid-2000s, streetball has seen an increase in media exposure through television shows such as ESPN's "Street basketball" and "City Slam", as well as traveling exhibitions such as the AND1 Mixtape Tour, YPA, and Ball4Real.

Streetball rules vary widely from court to court.

Players typically divide into teams (choose sides) by alternating choices.

Typically when a player calls ball that means that you have current possession of the ball and they can stop grabbing for it. Then they continue the game from the spot where "ball" was called.

No referees are employed, so almost invariably a "call your own foul" rule is in effect, and a player who believes he has been fouled, simply needs to call out "Foul!", and play will be stopped, with the ball awarded to the fouled player's team (free throws are not awarded in streetball).

A common misconception is that saying "And 1" is synonymous with calling "foul." It is not. The phrase is commonly employed as a form of trash talk. For example, when a player knows they are going to make a shot and they think they are getting fouled as they are shooting will say "And 1", to let their defender know, "you can't stop me, even though you have fouled me." In reality, and as the rules that follow indicate, there is no such thing as a traditional "And 1" in Streetball.

Because the duration of the game is dictated by score and players cannot foul-out in streetball, teams often employ intentional fouls as a last resort on defense.

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