by Casey Jacobson

When I was a boy all I wanted to do was play sports with my friends in my suburban neighborhood of Glendora, CA. I was tall but not huge. I wasn't fast, but not slow either. I could jump well, but that was by "white boy" standards. And although I come from a family with a basketball history (my father and two older brothers played college basketball), no one in their right mind would have predicted that I would make it to the NBA when they saw me...

Background on Ed White:

Ed started playing competitive basketball at a very young age and was brought up through the ARC program. He competed with ARC travel teams from ages 8-14 with successes including several AAU regional championships and a YBOA National Championship.

At Harvard-Westlake High School, Ed set a division record with four CIF championship titles. He was also All-CIF and All-Mission League for 3 years and won...

Drew Housman, who graduated from Calabasas High School in 2005, went on to play 4 years in the IVY League at Harvard. With much success at Harvard, earning All Ivy League honors in 2007 and 2009, Housman has taken his basketball career to the professional level. He is now playing overseas in Israel. Follow him through his interesting and entertaining experience as a professional athlete in a foreign country.

This is the very first post that Drew published on his blog after...

Yosepha "YoYo" Greenfield , who trained with Robert Icart in the summer, is a big part of the BTI family. She is also the niece of Ed White Jr., who also played with BTI and now plays in Ireland.

The 5‘5" Junior guard hails from Harvard-Westlake high school in the Los Angeles area. YoYo, who is now the starting point guard at Yale University, tells how her experience at Yale has been nothing short of amazing.

As anyone could imagine, the...