Terrance "2K" Ferguson | Official 10th Grade Mixtape

Here is 16 year old Terrance Ferguson's official sophomore season mixtape. Terrance, who's a junior now, possesses a leaping ability you're only used to seeing in video games and is a very impressive shooter from beyond the arc. He's ranked #8 overall on ESPN & Rivals and #12 on 24/7 Sports.

Mo’ne Davis Dominates at Little League World Series

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — An unmistakable electricity ran through Howard J. Lamade Stadium on Friday as a team from Pennsylvania faced a team from Tennessee on the second day of the Little League World Series.

Outside the stadium, fans and family members were enjoying a pleasant afternoon. But inside, there was the energy of championship Sunday, a sense of expectation that went beyond partisan cheering. Something special was happening.

Mo’ne Davis was on the mound for the first time since her suffocating performance in the Mid-Atlantic Regional championship, when she shut out Delaware-Newark National to lead Taney Youth Baseball Association of Philadelphia to the Series. Most of the announced 15,648 in attendance recognized the potential for something historic to unfold.

Could she live up to the hype?

Yes.

Davis pitched six innings, gave up a pair infield hits and struck out eight in a 4-0 victory over Nashville. By the end of fifth inning, with her Tennessee counterpart at the 85-pitch limit, Davis had thrown just 44.



With each out in the final inning, the cheers became louder, and when Davis struck out the final batter, becoming the first girl in Little League World Series history to earn a win, the crowd exploded. Her parents hugged and then accepted the congratulations of strangers.

Their modest 13-year-old girl had become an inspiration virtually overnight.

“She’s a great ballplayer but an even better kid,” one woman told Davis’s stepfather, Mark Williams.

For a few moments, Williams was speechless.

“I’m overwhelmed and so happy for her and so happy for this entire team,” he said. “Even if we don’t win it, we’ve still won.”

Davis’s mother, Latisha McLain, close to tears, said: “I’m just so, so happy for her. She’s humble; she’s calm. Nothing ever bothers her.”

Asked if she was responsible for her daughter’s athleticism, McLain laughed.

“I didn’t play sports growing up,” she said. “I didn’t play anything, and I didn’t want her to play — I thought she’d get hurt. But when I saw how good she was in basketball, I said it was O.K.”

After Davis’s impressive performance on Sunday and the subsequent news media attention, fans were eager to see a girl who was not just playing with the boys but dominating them, on a level playing field.

After Friday’s game, Pennsylvania Manager Alex Rice put Davis’s performance in perfect perspective, saying, “It was the Mo show out there.”

Davis, whose stoic demeanor on the mound is becoming her signature, acknowledged that she was nervous going into the game. Who could blame her? In addition to the pressure of facing top-flight competition, Davis has been dealing with becoming a star in a world of instant media.

Her Instagram account now has more than 8,000 followers. Her favorite athlete, Kevin Durant, acknowledged her on Twitter on Friday, and the Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout mentioned her, too.

But after her team jumped out to a 3-0 first-inning lead, Davis relaxed. She had breathing room.

“The nerves went away, and I just went out there and had fun,” she said, adding: “I settled into the game as it went by. I got to know the umpire’s strike zone, so that helped me out a lot.”

Out of the nearly 9,000 players who have participated in the Little League World Series, only 18 were girls. Davis is the fourth American girl, and with Emma March of Canada also playing, this is the third time in the tournament’s 68-year history that two girls are competing at the same time.

The issue came up in the postgame news conference and will come up again: Does Davis see herself as a role model?

The answer: a refreshing yes.

“It’s very unreal,” she said. “I never thought that at the age of 13 I would be a role model, but now it’s real. I always wanted to be a basketball role model; being a baseball role model is really cool.”

Pippen talks LeBron, failed Melo pitch

CHICAGO -- Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen doesn’t know what it’s like to lose in the NBA Finals, but he figures LeBron James learned a lesson in doing just that for a second time in four tries with the Miami Heat.

After judging the slam-dunk championship at the Nike Chi League all-star festivities Saturday, Pippen was asked if he was surprised James left for the Cleveland Cavaliers following Miami’s one-sided loss to the San Antonio Spurs in the Finals.

“I kind of figured he’d go back [to Cleveland],” Pippen said at Whitney Young High School. “I don’t know if he could hold that team up. I think [Dwyane] Wade's physical ability had him thinking, like, ‘Hey, maybe this is not the place I need to be.’ It was a great run for them. They weren’t as successful as they thought they would be, but you went to the Finals four times, so you can’t hold your head down too much about that.”

Six rings in six tries gives Pippen room for such backhanded praise.

While the Bulls reportedly had a meeting with James’ agent during this summer’s free-agency period, they failed at landing their true big target: Carmelo Anthony.

Pippen, now a special advisor to Bulls president and chief operating officer Michael Reinsdorf, was a major part of the pitch to Anthony.

After Pippen’s family pictures with Anthony from a Nike European summer tour elicited great hope in the Windy City, the Hall of Famer was part of the Bulls’ daylong Chicago presentation to Anthony on July 1.

But after all the wooing, Anthony stayed in New York and signed a $124 million deal to remain a Knick. The Bulls were reportedly his second choice. It's a familiar story for the Bulls, who haven't been able to land a major free agent in the post-Jordan-and-Pippen era.

“I’m not disappointed,” Pippen said. “Guys are going to make their decision at the end of the day, so you try to make a pitch, and hopefully it works. It hasn’t worked so far, but still, we did what we had to do as an organization to try and attract one of the best free agents out there.”

What was the pitch, given that Chicago couldn’t offer a max deal?

“'Look at the roster' -- that was pretty much it,” Pippen said. “We have a roster we think has a championship pedigree. We’ve been playing good basketball the last few years, even without our star player. Just adding some pieces was the pitch we were throwing at him. We felt that he was a big piece that we needed to get over the hump.”

As far as big pieces, Pippen said he likes the addition of 7-footer Pau Gasol, who had his introductory press conference Friday.

“We have size, and we got two big guys that can really pass the ball,” he said. “Pau gives us inside scoring that’s much needed. ... It’ll be great for our basketball team because we haven’t had a dominating low-post scorer in the block for a while.”

With James in Cleveland, Pippen said he thinks the Bulls have as good a chance as any team if Derrick Rose gets back to form.

“I think it’s wide open now, other than looking at San Antonio as the defending champion,” Pippen said. “I think a lot of teams have the opportunity to step up.”

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com