{"id":601,"date":"2007-01-23T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/archives\/2007\/01\/23\/coatesvilles-ash-park-featured-in-nba-street-4-homecourt\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T17:16:33","slug":"coatesvilles-ash-park-featured-in-nba-street-4-homecourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/2007\/01\/coatesvilles-ash-park-featured-in-nba-street-4-homecourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Coatesville’s Ash Park Featured in NBA Street 4: Homecourt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coatesville’s Ash Park, a few streets over from my house, is featured as Rip Hamilton’s hometown court in NBA Street Vol. 4: Homecourt<\/a>. The Electronic Arts game for the XBox360 and PlayStation 3 will be in stores mid-February.
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Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Todd Zuniga’s interview for 1Up.com:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u01531UP: Were there any legendary players from your court? Either old dudes or guys who were NBA-good, but just never made it?<\/p>\n

RH: Oh yeah, we had a lot of great players that come from Coatesville. Victor Ford, Coatesville legend. Darrel Lewis, Coatesville legend. Marty Eggleston, Jody McMillan, Ricky Hicks — Coatesville legends. These are guys that if you go into a barber shop, there’ll be guys in there saying, “Who’s better: Rip Hamilton or Victor Ford?” It’s fun, and that’s what we have — it’s all we have. And it’s great for conversation at the barber shop….<\/p>\n

1UP: How much did playing on your homecourt in Coatesville have an affect on you becoming one of the NBA’s top shooting guards?<\/p>\n

RH: I think the court in Ash Park helped me tremendously. It’s war at that court. It taught me how to be a man. You can be 13 or 14 years old, but it teaches you how to be a man real fast. It’s either go hard or go home. There ain’t no looking over your shoulder and asking “Where’s mom?” It really gave me that edge that I need to play in the NBA….<\/p>\n

1UP: You go back and host the “Rip City Celebration” in Coatesville every year — how important is it for you to acknowledge where you came from?<\/p>\n

RH: It’s very important for me to acknowledge where I came from. It’s all you’ve got. One day basketball’s going to be over, and I always want to be able to go back home. So one thing I try to do to put a stamp on the city is to do a free day for everybody. A free day for the kids, free day for the older people — so the older people don’t have an excuse not to be there. We do a free cookout. We give away bikes [and] give away school shopping sprees for kids. We got clowns [and] basketball tournaments. We give out trophies, give out T-shirts — we give out everything. Everything’s free. It’s just one day when everyone can unite, and come together, have fun and kick it — shake a leg or two.<\/p>\n

1UP: What do you think it’ll mean to the people of Coatesville that their basketball court will be represented in Street 4?<\/p>\n

RH: For the people of Coatesville, once they see this game…oh my goodness. It’s going to be bananas. You wouldn’t understand. I get chills in my body to even just think about it. It’s already a great thing for them to see me on there, saying, “Oh, yeah, that’s Rip — we got someone from Coatesville.” But to have a place where kids go everyday to play basketball, to go play in the playground and things like that — and now, for them to get an opportunity to see that? And not just them, but the everybody in the whole world? It’s crazy. I get chills just thinking about it…\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We see the name Marty Eggleston mentioned often when it comes to local politics, but I appreciate Rip’s humility and paying homage to the men he considers his basketball heroes. I loved his quote about comparisons at the barber shop. <\/p>\n

I wonder if Ash Park will now become a tourist attraction? <\/p>\n

It would be interesting to follow a tour of amateur basketball players playing at each of the courts featured in the <\/p>\n

I’m also curious to know how the game was made and what kind of footage was taken to make it look so detailed and realistic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coatesville’s Ash Park, a few streets over from my house, is featured as Rip Hamilton’s hometown court in NBA Street Vol. 4: Homecourt. The Electronic Arts game for the XBox360 and PlayStation 3 will be in stores mid-February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}