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Leigh Ellis

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🇭🇷 This might be my proudest achievement. After playing at Tuškanac in Zagreb, Croatia and highlighting how this historically important court had fallen into disrepair, my video prompted the local government to renovate it and bring it back to life, returning it to its former glory. Seeing the impact on a community a game of pickup ball can have is truly awesome!Powered by @woooba Thanks to @spaldinglatam for the 🏀 and @lovromedia for camera work and drone shots 🎥 #BasketballPassport #zagreb by @leighellis

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🇨🇳Ever hooped inside a 100-year-old cooling tower? 👀The echo in here makes swishes sound sweeter than ever. 🏀🎯#BasketballPassport #BeijingHoops #HoopersParadiseThanks to @spaldinglatam for the 🏀 Thanks to @zhang__jonathan for help with translationMayor shout out to @lym820818 for the camera work! by @leighellis

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🇺🇸 Shooting around with Steph Curry back in 2018 was and still is the coolest professional experience of my life.It came about after I talked about a strategical approach I noticed Larry Bird took to the 3-Point contest, of which Steph adopted and went on to win the for the first time in his career in 2015.As someone who tried my hand at the shootout over the years, getting to work out privately with him was surreal.Then it got even crazier because just after he gave me some pointers, I got on a hot streak, and he was cheering me on like the millions of fans who cheer him on during every game and want to see something special.I’ll never know what playing basketball on his level is like. Or to exist in his world of global fame, where so much of his life is recorded, analyzed, and scrutinized whether he wants it to be or not. But as a dad, and a husband, this was like talking to any other father at one of your kids birthday parties, where you can relate to each others’ stories of the ups and downs of parenthood and marriage, all the while shooting some hoops.#basketball #travel #stephencurry #3point by @leighellis

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🇨🇦Toronto’s coolest basketball court? 👀🏀Tucked away inside a North York condo, this basketball court is about as cool as condo courts can get. Raptors-inspired design, Nike sneaker display cases and courtside seating... this crib has it all.Would you live here just for the court? 📍🏨 5 York Garden Wy, North York🎥 @cjacksallin Thanks to @spalding.latam for the 🏀 #BasketballPassport #Toronto #Raptors #OVO #Drake by @leighellis

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🇨🇦 Vince Carter put the Raptors on the map and now the Raptors have put him on a court. Back at Dixon Park in Toronto, where Vince first helped build a court in 2003, these newly renovated courts celebrate his impact on the franchise, the city, and basketball across Canada. 🏀 🍁Thanks as always to @spalding.latam for the 🏀 Drone footage: @courtsurfacespecialists 🎥 : Oscar Ellis#BasketballPassport #VinceCarter #Raptors #WeTheNorth by @leighellis

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I hope this scalper, who sold me a ticket to my first Knicks game in 1999, is at the parade today. 🏀🗽I made it into the Garden, but got kicked out soon after as the ticket turned out to be fake. #Knicks #NYKnicks #knicksparade #53years by @leighellis

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🗽 🤠 As a kid, I wrote to every NBA team. Most of them wrote back. Here are the responses I got before the 89-90 season from the @nyknicks and @spurs.My favorite part is how perfectly Spurs-ian the San Antonio letter is. Also:- It was the season the Knicks hired Jeff Van Gundy as an assistant coach and Pop and RC Buford were the Spurs assistants. (this is the 89-90 season)#NBAFinals #Spurs #Knicks #NYKnicks #53years by @leighellis

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🇺🇸 I never take for granted the opportunity to be this close to the NBA. 11-year-old me would still be freaking out at all of this.Hawks 🦅 vs Knicks🗽 was a great series. by @leighellis

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Could you hit a half-court shot to win NBA Playoff tickets? Thanks to the @atlhawks , I went down to Central Park to find out.Thanks to everyone who participated and a special shout out to the camera crew of Ryan, Max, Lexi, Rachel and Oscar! by @leighellis

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Loved hearing how Karl-Anthony Towns spoke about his former teammate Nickeil Alexander-Walker. by @leighellis

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🇺🇸 Steph Curry talks about the time he played Augusta, his dream foursome to play with, and the one basketball accolade from his trophy cabinet that he would trade for a Green Jacket at The Masters. 🏀 ⛳️ 🏌️ #StephCurry #golf #USMasters #augusta by @leighellis

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As Kevin Durant moved past Michael Jordan into fifth on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, it’s a good time to highlight a part of his game that not every fan sees.That’s KD’s methodical pregame routine.Every movement is deliberate, every shot rehearsed, sharpening his mechanics and instincts as if he’s scripting the game before it happens. It’s the unseen work like this, and the hours leading into it, that provide real insight into how he’s been able to sustain this level of scoring for nearly two decades.#kevindurant #michaeljordan #KD #easymoneysniper by @leighellis

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