Words. High School Hoop

Ever since we dropped Dime #66 with John Wall on the cover, people have been telling us how much they love the issue. So after reading his story, we want to take you behind the scenes of his cover shoot. We shot Wall at 360 Health Club in Reseda, Calif., and had the cameras there to capture what went down.

A major part of John Wall’s story is his “discovery” at the Reebok Breakout Challenge years ago. He talked about that breakout moment in the behind-the-scenes video of his cover shoot for Dime Magazine: MORE >

Words. Alejandro Danois

Baltimore’s Aquille Carr, the country’s most dynamic and exciting high school player, continues to burnish his growing legend while fighting crime in his spare time.

His YouTube mixtape highlights, with well over three million collective hits and counting, make you seriously wonder if your eyes have the capacity to lie. If you don’t already know, Aquille Carr, whose name means strong as an eagle in Latin and intelligent and wise in Arabic, is a 5-7 rising junior athletic marvel with a 48-inch vertical leap at Baltimore’s Patterson High School. MORE >

Words. High School Hoop

Check out this highlight montage of John Wall‘s senior run at Word of God. Just murderous. (Put together by our friends at Hoopmixtape.com)

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Words. Sean Sweeney

They call it the “John Wall Blueprint”. People forget, Wall was a late bloomer. For a while, he was virtually unknown. Then he blew up at the Reebok Breakout Challenge and the rest is history. Jonathan Milligan is another cat trying to follow that blueprint. As Dallas’ Jason Terry said upon introducing him to the crowd, Milligan was unknown even in his own state of Arizona before putting in work at the Breakout Challenge. Now, the 6-1 point guard from Casa Grande Union High School is fielding offers from Pac-10 schools. MORE >

Words. Sean Sweeney

He wasn’t afraid, wasn’t shy. He went right at the NBA guys, and had his own little game-within-the-game going on against John Wall. Darrick Wood held his own, and did a few things to stand out. At one point, Wood put down a sideways windmill where it seemed like he jumped, met the rim, then chilled for a split second, before bringing the ball all the way around for a finish. MORE >

Words. Sean Sweeney

About 30 minutes into the workout, I had to say it. “That dude is nice,” I told some other media members. “I like his game.” He was smooth in the drills, and was hitting pull-up bank shots just as easily as he was throwing himself lobs and finishing with tomahawks. A mature game. “That dude” was Seth Allen, an explosive 6-2 scoring point guard from Fredericksburg Christian in Virginia. MORE >