Bobby Maze finding success overseas - ALL-MET ELITE

Bobby Maze

finding success overseas

ALL-MET ELITE

 

SUITLAND HS.

SUITLAND MD.

 

Former Tennessee point guard Bobby Maze will be holding a celebrity basketball game on June 22nd at Hardin Valley Academy at 3 p.m. NBA players Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley, Demarcus Cousins, and several others are expected to attend, along with some of Maze's former Tennessee teammates.

The game will be played in memory of Maze's cousin Jamar Board. Board was a popular Washington D.C. area streetball player known as "Silent Assassin."

Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Maze has been busy since his playing days at Tennessee.

"Basketball, it took me places I've never ever been or never even dreamed of going," Maze said.

Maze has made a name for himself playing professionally in Europe and Asia. He has played in small 2,000 seat gyms and huge 25,000 seat arenas in countries such as China, Belarus, Cyprus, Lithuania and Greece. The point guard won a league championship and Finals MVP award in 2012 with Belarusian team Minsk-2006

Every summer Maze returns to his roots in the Washington D.C. area to play in the Goodman League with former AAU teammate Kevin Durant.

"It's an outdoor league, they call it Inside the Gates and man it's just about being tough," Maze said. "You're in a rough atmosphere, you're in one of the toughest parts of Washington D.C. in Berry Farms and you're gonna play against some of the best streetballers to college to NBA players."

Berry Farms is just five minutes up the road from Maze's childhood home in Suitland, Md. just outside Washington D.C. Maze even traveled with the Goodman League during the NBA lockout to play in star-studded games across the country.