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2012 NIKE Basketball Camp Profile: Nashville Camps

Nashville, TN
NIKE Basketball will run 4 basketball camps in Nashville, TN this summer. The first two camps will be held at Hendersonville First Baptist (HFB) in Hendersonville, TN and will run June 25-June 29, 2012 and the second camp from July 9-July13, 2012. The 3rd Nashville camp will be a Girl's Camp that will run from July 16-July 20, 2012 at Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA). The 4th Nashville Camp will run from July 23-July 27, 2012 at Christ Presbyterian Academy. All Nashville camps will be directed by our Tennessee Director and Christ Presbyterian Academy Head Coach Drew Maddux.
For the past six years, Maddux has been the Head Coach at Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA) in Nashville. In those six years, Maddux has a combined record of 163-39, while being ranked in the Top 10 each of those seasons. In 2008 and 2009, Maddux lead his team to the Region 5AA Championship. In 2008, he was also named the NBCA Coach of the Year. This season, he lead to Lions to their first ever State Championship and finished the season and impressive 37-2.
These camps will focus on individual skill improvement with our morning skill stations and afternoon 3 on 3 league. Each camper will also play in one 5 on 5 game and participate in our Living by Numbers contests each day. This camp is a perfect way to prepare for your school, church, rec or AAU season. All NIKE basketball camps maintain a player to coach ratio of 8:1 and are staffed by high school and collegiate coaches as well as collegiate players.

Camp times are Monday-Thursday 9am-3pm and Friday 9am-12pm. Camp concludes Friday with an awards ceremony that begins around 11:45am. Lunch will not be provided, but a concession stand will be available with pizza, snacks and drinks.
For more information visit www.elitehoopsbasketball.com or call 1-800-NIKE-CAMP
Friday, April 20, 2012
2012 NIKE Basketball Camp Profile: Marietta High School

at Marietta High School
Limited Spaces
This camp will focus on individual skill improvement with our morning skill stations and afternoon 3 on 3 league. Each camper will also play in one 5 on 5 game and participate in our Living by Numbers contests each day. This camp is a perfect way to prepare for your school, church, rec or AAU season. All NIKE basketball camps maintain a player to coach ratio of 8:1 and are staffed by high school and collegiate coaches as well as collegiate players.
Marietta High School is located in Marietta, Georgia and about 4 miles west of I-75 and is right off Hwy 120. Marietta is a convenient camp location for anyone in Cobb County including the Kennesaw, Mableton, Powder Springs, Vinings and Smyrna areas.Camp times are Monday-Thursday 9am-3pm and Friday 9am-12pm. Camp concludes Friday with an awards ceremony that begins around 11:45am. Lunch will not be provided, but a concession stand will be available with pizza, snacks and drinks.
Monday, April 16, 2012
The Love of the Game
Monday, March 26, 2012
2012 NIKE Basketball Camp Profile: Greater Atlanta Christian
This summer will be our 4th year hosting NIKE Boys Basketball Camps at Greater Atlanta Christian School (GAC) in Norcross, GA. We will have two sessions this summer. The first camp runs June 4-8 and the second camp runs July 30-August 3.
Co-Directing the camp with Lee Miller will be GAC Head Varsity Boys Coach and 5-time State Champion Eddie Martin. Previously, Martin had been the Head Coach at Brookwood High School for 20 years and Norcross High School for 6 years. While at Norcross, he lead the Blue Devils to 3 straight 5A State Championships and coached 3 NBA draft picks: Jodie Meeks of the Philadelphia 76ers, Al Farouq Aminu of the LA Clippers and Gani Lawal of the Phoenix Suns. In his 4 years at GAC, Martin has lead the team to two State Championships, one Final Four and one Elite Eight. In 4 years at GAC, his record is 114-16. Over the past 8 seasons, each one of Martin's teams have made it to at least the Elite 8.
Both of our NIKE Boys Basketball Camps are open to intermediate and advanced players entering grades 4-9. Camp times are Monday-Thursday 9a-3pm and Friday 9am-12pm. Each camp is limited to the first 100 players that register. This camp has sold out each of the past 3 seasons, so make sure to register soon. To see some of last year's Award Winners and Top Scorers in our Living By Numbers contests check out our blog on last years camp. To see what our NIKE Basketball Camps look like, check out the video below.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
2012 NIKE Basketball Camp Profile: Miller Grove High School
Our 2nd annual NIKE Boys Basketball Camp at Miller Grove High School in Lithonia, GA will be held Tuesday May 29-Friday June 1, 2012.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Is Your Will Greater Than Your Skill?
Jeremy Lin is now the starting Point Guard for the New York Knicks and is averaging 23 points, 7 asts and 2 steals over his last 6 games. How did a Point Guard who was overlooked by almost every person at every level become a starting Point Guard for an NBA team? Simple. His WILL was Greater than his SKILL.Monday, January 23, 2012
Does Winning a Championship Make You a Champion?

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, December 19, 2011
The 3 Parts to Becoming a Great Shooter
James Lee
South Carolina Director
Elite Hoops/NIKE Basketball Camps
"Release Your Potential"
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Right to Lead
7. Give your power away.
Monday, December 5, 2011
The 4 Keys to Improving Your Game
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Shoot the Ball and Close Your Eyes
Next time you're in the gym working on your game, shoot a shot and close your eyes as soon as you release the ball. Don't open your eyes until the ball hits the ground (make or miss). Not too beneficial is it? Yet that's basically what every player does during their workouts until they meet me.
The reason you watch your shot go in or out is so that you can judge your shooting form and performance. Make all your shots-your form is great. Miss them all-your form is bad, but for some reason most players only watch (and thus track) only their shooting performance during workouts. Players very rarely track their speed, how quickly they shoot, how fast they dribble or any of the other various drills they may work on.
That's where I come in. A few years ago, I began tracking some of the data and drills of some of the players I train. Four years later, we now how a solid database called Living by Numbers which houses 1000's of players scores in at least 12 different drills. With this database, we track players reps/scores for numerous drills. For example, many players are familiar with the Mikan Drill, but no one every tracks their progress in that drill. We do. Check out AJ Davis (2013) of the Buford Wolves as he records 21 made Mikans in :30 tying our record held by former Milton standout and current Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Julian Royal.
We have 4 Divisions in our Living by Numbers database: High School (3rd-4th graders), College (5th-6th graders), NBA (7th-8th graders) and Elite (High School and Collegiate players). We have found that tracking players scores in these drills really encourages them to A) work on their fundamentals and B) push themselves to get a better score each time they perform. Using the Living by Numbers program, players can truly see their progress year over year. In 2010, Owen Ferguson broke our Front/Back Bounce record of 76 bounces in :30, when he collected 88 bounces at our NIKE Camp in Birmingham, Alabama. Was Owen satisfied? No. He came back to our camp again in 2011 and this time he broke his own record and collected 99 bounces (see video below). Amazing! That's a 12.5% improvement in 1 year and when you can show players that they are actually improving it makes it that much easier for them to work on their game.
The bottom line is track every thing you do. Most of our drills are :30, but be creative with your own workout and be sure to make it fun. Then track your progress and watch your own records fall. If you have any questions about our Living by Number program, feel free to email me at lmiller@elitehoopsbasketball.com.
Lee Miller
National Director
Elite Hoops
"Release Your Potential"
Thursday, October 13, 2011
The Art of the Screen

Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Real Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant did not always start out being the most humble hard working player but learned to be very soon. When Kevin was young, he would have good games in which he would brag about how he played. His mother brought that to a halt very quickly telling Kevin to be humble because all the stuff could be taken away from him. From then on, Kevin did not want to take his talents for granted and improved his work ethic. One of the things Kevin does to improve his game is working out after practice is over, and he feels that this is the reason why he has become better during his time in the NBA. He is also known for giving 100% every time on the court going through every drill, every set, and every workout has hard as possible to become the very best he can be. As you may know he has traveled the country all summer on a summer league tour tearing up all competitors that step in his way. Notable games he has played in are at Rucker Park, a historical park in New York, where he scored 66 points. Then in the Goodman League v. Melo League in which players like: Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Chris Paul, John Wall, Brandon Jennings, and DeMarcus Cousins played in, he scored 59 points. How is that for hard work paying off?
Not only does Kevin’s work ethic make him a better player but it also rubs off on his teammates. Through leading by example, he gets his teammates to commit to the team by doing whatever it takes to win. For example, starting shooting guard for the Oklahoma Thunder, Thabo Sefolosha, totally commits himself to the defensive end for the betterment of the team. In a league where scoring is glorified Kevin pushes his teammates to be the very best at their role on the team. Also with anticipation of the lockout, Kevin has already notified the his teammates that they need to meet him in Houston to start training for the upcoming season whenever it may start. All he wants is to get better and make those around him better too.
Kevin with all of his accomplishments has remained just as humble as he was when first entering the league. The only thing that he cares about is winning and remaining loyal to the ones that helped him reach the platform that he is on. The reason he continues to get better is because he has an understanding that he does not know everything about the game of basketball and is willing to learn. As he continues to learn along with his work ethic, his potential is through the roof.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
What Is "It"?
Over the past 3 years, I have trained over 300 HS players throughout the southeast. Of those 300, only 2 have "it". If I was a coach at the high school level, and I could have 12 of either one of the players (both guards), I'd take it. You ask either of the players to shoot 200 shots and they shoot 300. You ask either to be at the gym at 3:00 and they are there at 2:45 working on their game. You tell either of them to deactivate their Facebook account for 6 weeks to concentrate on their game and they do it. Both of these players work hard, work often, and understand what commitment is, but what is the "it" that they have?
Sean Combs "Diddy" is worth $475 million and is the richest hip hop star in the world, according to Forbes. But in 1990, Diddy wasn't worth a penny. That year, he took an UNPAID internship with at Uptown Records. He commuted via train every weekend from Washington, DC to New York to work for free because he had a passion and a desire to make it big in the music industry. A year later, due to his hard work, Diddy landed a full time gig as Director of Artists at Uptown. In 1993, he signed a multi-million dollar deal with Arista records for his Bad Boy Entertainment label that he created while at Uptown. The rest is history and YES Diddy has "it".
In the summer after the 2006-2007 NBA season, Kobe Bryant realized his fingers were unevenly spaced after taping them the entire previous season due to a fractured metacarpal. As a result, his shooting percentage dropped that season. He watched film on 1000's of his shots and noticed the ball was slightly rotating to the right. So what did 5-time NBA Champion, Kobe Bryant do? He MADE 100,000 shots that summer correcting his form and rotation. Kobe says he doesn't practice shooting shots, he "practices making them, " and YES if you haven't figured it out yet, Kobe has "it".
In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, he discusses the 10,000 hour rule. He says that to achieve greatness in a specific field you must spend 10,000 hours mastering your craft. He mentions that the Beatles played over 1200 times in Hamburg, Germany from 1960-1964 and amassed more than 10,000 hours of playing time during that span. A year later, almost everyone in the US knew their songs. He mentions that Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft and worth an estimated $50 billion, started programming at the age of 13 and spent over 10,000 hours perfecting programs before he started Microsoft. The Beatles had "it" and Bill Gates still has "it".
Lee Miller
Elite Hoops
National Director
"Release Your Potential"














