Brooklyn USA Basketball Overview
Brooklyn USA Basketball is a Big Time AAU basketball program for children 3-19 years of age with 1,084 members Brooklyn USA Basketball has been the leading youth Basketball program in Brooklyn, NY for the past 26 years. We have help placed 706 young men in college on basketball scholarships. 141 playing pro ball overseas, & 17 of our player have made to the NBA, 7 play in the league now
Brooklyn USA has 12 AAU elite travel basketball teams grades one through twelve who compete in leagues and tournaments in Brooklyn, around New York City, and across the Nation. There are 144 young men participating on our travel team. Brooklyn USA has won 98 National Titles in various age groups in different cities in the USA.
Brooklyn USA runs a basketball league for children grades pre K through 12 grades in which everyone who wants a chance to play basketball regardless of their basketball skill, is place on a team and plays in a league. This Development league is run 3 times a year with a total of 1,260 boys and girls participating.
Brooklyn USA has put on a National High School Basketball Tournament where High School teams from across the Nation have come to Brooklyn to compete against High School teams from Brooklyn.
Brooklyn USA run’s an annual college exposure basketball camp for over 300 high school age students who have either not qualified for a 4 year college, have not been accepted to a college or have dropped out of high school and would like to attend a college. Each year hundreds of college division two, three, NAIA, and junior college coaches around the Country attend this event.
Brooklyn USA Basketball has offered academic help to its student athletes in the form of after school tutoring, State wide Regis testing prep, high school entrance exams prep, SAT and ACT college prep course, counseling
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 then 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 has play thirteenth season in the NBA.