Brooklyn USA Basketball mission is to use the great sport of Basketball and it’s team concepts to help children stay in school, work hard at all they do in life, promote team work and community participation, and to help advance their education by help placing them in College and University around the Country. None exemplifies this more than the story of Jamaal Tinsley who join Brooklyn USA at age ten who later dropout of high school twice, had no high school class credit, no GED and was place by the Brooklyn USA Director in a Junior College in California where he earn his GED, played on the college basketball team was a two time all State player and earned an associate college degree, all in two years. He than went on to play at Iowa State on a basketball scholarship where he was an All American basketball star. Jamaal Tinsley graduated from Iowa State was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2001 NBA draft and is playing his thirteenth season in the NBA.
