After tonight, there will be no hiding the fact that we actually made this movie last month. See, tonight ESPN2 will air an episode of STREETBALL: THE AND1 MIX TAPE TOUR that goes “behind-the-scenes” on the set of our giant undertaking. Please tune in at 9:30pm PST to witness a brief glimpse at the film version of BDL.

So, I learned an important lesson from Grayson “The Professor” Boucher: The Art of Perseverance. This lesson was not so much taught by him, but rather taught by the experience of this film.

For two years (yes, two years), I’d been running around town (well documented on this blog) preaching that Grayson was the only dude that could play Sticky. I convinced everyone and anyone with whom I could get an audience that he was Sticky and that Sticky was him, this includes Grayson Boucher himself, financiers, other actors, agents, managers, Michael Roiff, Matt de la pena, and, most importantly, my own damn self, among many, many others. I preached so much, I got tired of my own preaching.

Yeah, yeah, I know, no blogs for six weeks, what’s up with that? What’s up with that is that we finally stopped writing, talking and high-posting and actually shot a movie called BALL DON’T LIE…. As someone who normally exists in a bit of a vacuum, it is amazing that so much can go down in six weeks… The question is where to start….

I guess I’ll just start at the end. I want to thank everyone who worked on, acted in, supported, felt, believed, sweat for, lost sleep over and continues to breathe BALL DON’T LIE. We were blessed with an unbelievable cast and a simply incredible crew, both of which supplied us with relentless energy, pure passion and a firm belief in a simple little tale that struggled to let the world know what it truly means to be 3 stones back. Thank you from the pit of my heart and from the hearts of Michael, Smitty, Matt, and everyone else who’s been fighting for Sticky for what amounts to years. It means a lot that so many people rallied to care about a project that so many others hadn’t ever given a chance. We have a chance now and, for that, I’m grateful. It’s up to us again to make this thing soar….