"I played for Gauchos"

[ucanthandlethetruth]

Fixed it @ucanthandlethetruth

my nikka

You forgot IS 8

Bring your game not your name

Queens shyt

My bad thats fax..i was a bk nikka but spent extensive time uptown/bx ballin so i know those off top.. there was a few queens tournament i played in not sure if was is8.....i remember playing out in tourney in lefrak and also somewhere in south jamaica near foch blvd alot of ill ballers. we took bronx river one year nikkas started throwing batteries at us from the roofs also i played with my church team in bk and we took a salvation army tourney in bushwick and they chased us out the gym with our trophies we had to hop the turnstiles and run along the elevated tracks i thought i would die that day above the rim was based loosely on real shyt it was wild then it wasnt only drug dealers betting on you and pay for play but basketball could get you hurt winning in the wrong hood lol

 

[Frida Giezman]

my nikka

My bad thats fax..i was a bk nikka but spent extensive time uptown/bx ballin so i know those off top.. there was a few queens tournament i played in not sure if was is8.....i remember playing out in tourney in lefrak and also somewhere in south jamaica near foch blvd alot of ill ballers. we took bronx river one year nikkas started throwing batteries at us from the roofs also i played with my church team in bk and we took a salvation army tourney in bushwick and they chased us out the gym with our trophies we had to hop the turnstiles and run along the elevated tracks i thought i would die that day above the rim was based loosely on real shyt it was wild then it wasnt only drug dealers betting on you and pay for play but basketball could get you hurt winning in the wrong hood lol

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...-played-hallowed-queens-gym-article-1.3237165

Dailynews article on is8 tourney

Long but good read

 

[ISO]

So many nikkas used to false claim they played for Gauchos

 

[FreshAIG]

BASKETBALL; Brooklyn's Last Hope Is Lost in Manhattan

BASKETBALL; Brooklyn's Last Hope Is Lost in Manhattan
By HARVEY ARATON
Published: March 15, 1992
For a few hours yesterday afternoon, the Cinderella run of Lafayette High School in the Public Schools Athletic League basketball playoffs reached unimagined heights. But then came the fall, crash and burn.

The Frenchies were eliminated by small but quick Brandeis High School, 56-50, last night at Manhattan Community College. Their dream of going to Madison Squre Garden for the championship game next Saturday died at the free-throw line, where they missed 12 of 21 attempts.

"Our old nemesis," said the disappointed coach, Ira Levine, who had never come this far in his 11-year coaching career.

Al Burt led Brandeis with 20 points and 13 rebounds. Antonio Carrasquillo had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Frenchies.

Lincoln High School, ruler of Brooklyn, defending champion of the city, had been wishing Lafayette the best, after losing earlier in the day to Manhattan Center, 69-51.

"They're the only ones left and I hope they do it," said Don Marbury Sr., who has sent four basketball-playing sons to Lincoln from his home in Coney Island, including 14-year-old Stephon, Lincoln's freshman point guard. Manhattan Center Wins

He was standing in the corridor at Manhattan Community, trying to make some sense of the loss at the hands of smaller, less-heralded Manhattan Center with the Lincoln coach, Bobby Hartstein. Lincoln had come into the game with 22 victories in 24 tries, 16-0 in the strong Brooklyn Division I, but Manhattan Center's Running Rams blew Lincoln away with a mixture of slashing drives and jump shots, with a pair of 5-foot-10-inch guards, Cameron Giles and Sherman Jones, combining for 35 points.

 

[CHERUB]

Everybody that ever played streetball in NYC played at Gauchos You didnt even mention Vince Carter OP smh.

 

[Real N Quotes]

Another line by a NYC rapper(Cam) that had me on some investigatin' shyt when I heard it. Found out it was a youth basketball league, then I remembered I would hear Bill Raftery mention it every once in a while back in the 90s during college basketball broadcasts.

Gauchos got a pretty nice alumni:

Kenny Anderson
Stephen Marbury
Kemba Walker
Rod Strickland
Jamal Mashburn
God Shammgod
Chris Mullin
Felipe Lopez
Mark Jackson
John Salley

The gym

I may be wrong but a couple of those dudes played for Riverside, especially Kenny, not the Gauchos

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Can't get paid in an Earth this big? You worthless kid...

 

[AMcV'88]

i'm sure Cam went into depth about those days on A-Butta's podcast.
i think i made a thread about it.

edit
Cam'ron on A-Butta's Streets First Basketball Podcast

Cam still involved with Gaucho's too..he does his RoadToTheRim there.

 

[OfTheCross]

back when rappers actually rapped about and did actual things in the hood.

lol. most these nikkas nowadays don't go outside

 

[Urbanmiracle]

I know this is from a song but the first time I heard this verse is when he freestyled over the never scared beat. Anyone got a link to that

 

[010101]

So many nikkas used to false claim they played for Gauchos

who said you had to actually "play"

long as you was there you could flex on the uninitiated

levels to deception

*

 

[Homer Simpson]

Legend in 3 games

 

[Yehuda]

back when rappers actually rapped about and did actual things in the hood.

lol. most these nikkas nowadays don't go outside

Lol you'll probably never hear a rapper talk about when he used to play basketball again.

 

[boxfullofjoel]

Yeah playing for gauchos made you a legend. Walking in the park with the tournment tshirt with the bull logo was god status.

As a BK resident soul in the hole was my ish. Karreem Reid and Corey Williams gave us the business tho.

Shout to wingate park too... damn I miss ballin in NYC

 

[RicanFury]

i'm sure Cam went into depth about those days on A-Butta's podcast.
i think i made a thread about it.

edit
Cam'ron on A-Butta's Streets First Basketball Podcast

Cam still involved with Gaucho's too..he does his RoadToTheRim there.

Sapp vs a butta had the city buzzing....Sapp a R30's rep...gangs came out to this one. Cam's influence underrated. everyone left that game without violence.