Gregory Branch and the Talley Ho Foundation brought boys, girls, Legends and generations of Baltimore basketball history together at the Dome—while the Brunson League Finals delivered high-level action at UA House at Fayette (BALTIMORE – August 2, 2026) – For anyone who tells you it is just a game, tell them, “Surely, you jest.” It is more than a game. For many inner-city youth, basketball can be defining. One’s ability to handle the rock can help determine a young person’s trajectory. In some communities, hockey is the go-to sport. In other communities, soccer defines the culture. We just witnessed that with the FIFA international soccer championships. There are still other communities where bull riding is the center of attention. But in Ball-dimore, the culture centers around basketball. It is about one’s ability to handle the pill coming up the court. It is about how a player navigates the double team—and how speed, hand-eye coordination, and hang time all come together to make that beautiful swish sound at the end of the play. That is Baltimore basketball. Now, I knew by 13 that basketball was not going to be my saving grace, just like I knew by age 7 that I was never going to be anywhere near the kind of singer Michael Jackson was. Even back then, my heart was that of a writer. Today, it is the same deal. That does not, however, change my love for the game. Hell, I bet I practiced over Easterwood Park as much as Muggsy Bogues practiced over Lafayette. The difference is that playing basketball was Muggsy’s gift. And the way the story has been told, the boys over Lafayette came up in a system. The legend has it—similar to the stories told about Skip Wise—that those guys at Lafayette practiced about three times a day and still hooped all night. If you were going to beat Muggsy, Russ, Mike Brown or any of those Dunbar cats, you had to play all day and all night, 365 days a year. What Johnny does most, Johnny does best. At Lafayette and Madison in East Baltimore, and at Cloverdale, John Eager Howard and Bentalou in West Baltimore, basketball was always more than a game. If you wanted to be respected, you had to earn it. These were more than neighborhood courts and recreation centers. They were basketball institutions—places where people gathered around the game and where reputations were built one possession at a time. The real strength of Baltimore basketball, however, was found in the older players who came back. They returned to pour what they had learned into the younger players. They showed them how to handle the ball, navigate a double team, play defense, and carry themselves on and off the court. At these centers, you could see everybody—from the teeny boppers just learning the game to the professionals who had reached its highest level. That passing of knowledge from one generation to the next is one of the foundations of Baltimore basketball.…
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