HARLEM, New York -- Jason Willis's basketball players at Edison Tech probably don't know the full accomplishments of their assistant coach. Right now Jason is more concerned that his Inventors make practice on time and work hard in the classroom.
I met Jason while writing a post on the basketball game at Cobb's Hill, including a compassion between the Rucker League in Harlem. Rochester’s own street ball Rucker League.
And we have a bonifide NYC streetballer in our midst. Jason describes playing and coaching from '05 to '10 for Primetime (with Head Coach James Ryan), serving losses to the likes of "Crossing Guard," "AO," "Headache," "Homicide," and "Bone Collector." Jason--or Dr. J as I like to call him, given his Ph.D.--played/coached in the NIKE, Classic Rucker (Medger Evers University in Brooklyn), EBC (Entertainment Basketball Classic) Rucker on 155th in Harlem, Dykman, 145th Street and many more, all of which drove his passion for the game.
But what's more impressive about Jason is his remarkable dedication to success on the hardwood floor and the lecture hall. Having graduated from Division III SUNY-Brockport with a double major in African-American Studies and Sociology, Jason received the PROMPT Fellowship at Southern Illinois University for an M.A. in Sociology.
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