AFTER receiving some miserable feedback about the All-Star weekend last year, Wild Fire Entertainment knew that this year, they had to come big and so, it was announced yesterday at the launching of the 2010 event, that the world renown street basketball team “And-1” will be coming to Guyana.

Known as the world’s most popular street ball team, AND-1 Street ball legends are a certain crowd pleaser regardless of what continent they’re playing and it is with that aim that the Wild Fire Entertainment has ventured out to secure the team.

“We believe this will be probably the best ever all-star weekend ever,” the group declared through Jonathan Beepat.

Since 2006, the All-star weekend took on Linden versus Georgetown clash which saw some of the best junior and senior basketball players coming from the two more powerful sub-associations to the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation but the past three years the players have basically been just “turning up” to play.

Apart from the juniors, the seniors have failed to excite a usually basketball hungry crowd and this year, it will be an And-1 Streetball team coming up against a Guyana Street ball team.

“We will still have the juniors and senior Linden/Georgetown games,” Beepat mentioned as he stated that  Friday November 12, will be the junior all-star  game where Linden is the defending champion and that night will also feature the senior slam-Dunk and three-point shooting contest.

The following evening, Saturday November 13, it will be the senior All-Star game with Georgetown being the champions and it is then the juniors will get a chance to show their skills in the slam-dunk and three-point shoot out, according to the group known for their exquisite productions and for entertaining the Guyanese public with their super concerts with international renowned artiste of different genre of music.

Of the ten players listed to grace the cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the All-Star weekend, the certain eye catchers will be Taurian “Mr. 720” Fontenette and Grayson “The Professor” Boucher.

Formerly known as the “air up there” for his flying like ability while dunking, Fontenette in 2006 during a game (And-1) in Texas, shocked the basketball world when he did the humanly impossible ‘720’ Dunk.

‘The Professor’ on the other hand, is a point guard, 26 years old and has grown since 2004 on his debut with the AND-1 team to be the face of street basketball.

Known for his smooth clown like dribbling, Boucher will certainly test the local players who are not use to oppose such like players.

“We ask the associations (Linden and Georgetown) to select six players from each and then we will make the final decision on who the team would be,” Beepat noted when asked on how the team will be selected.

But apart from coming to Guyana to compete against the locals and entertain, the AND-1 team is expected to also conduct three basketball clinics in Linden, Georgetown and Berbice.

Often not realize for their actual skills playing basketball, some of the NBA’s and other professional basketball leagues in the world, have stars who begun their career playing Streetball.

Rafer “Skip 2 My Lou” Alston, of  Miami had his basketball knowledge basically from the streets and recently, ‘Mr. 720’ signed with the Dallas Generals in the American Basketball Association (ABA).