Are you passionate about basketball and eager to make a meaningful impact in your local community? Pro Skills Basketball is thrilled to announce that we are expanding our reach and seeking driven individuals to join us as City Directors in new cities across the country. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of revolutionizing ..read more

  The NBA is experiencing a significant shift with a record-breaking 125 players born outside the United States on opening-night 2023-24 season rosters, representing 40 countries and territories across six continents (ESPN). Former Notre Dame head coach and current Atlanta Hawks assistant coach, Mike Brey has predicted that over 50% of the NBA will be ..read more

The Role of High School and AAU Basketball Often times people describe high school basketball and AAU basketball as incompatible, one is good/positive and one is bad/negative, and typically, AAU basketball bares the brunt of the negativity. While AAU certainly has it’s downfalls, as I previously wrote about in a recent blog article, it also ..read more

For the first time in history, two best-in-class youth basketball organizations and members of the Jr. NBA Flagship Network – PGC Basketball and Pro Skills Basketball – have entered into an official partnership. Through the partnership, this coming summer over 30,000 players and thousands of coaches from all across North America will learn how the ..read more

Listen to our Podcast on this topic here! Pro Skills Basketball has been on the AAU basketball scene since 2012 when we started with 4 teams in Charlotte, NC. In 2023, PSB will have over 200 boys and girls AAU basketball teams from 2nd-11th grade in 22 cities across the US. With that number of teams ..read more

Charlotte AAU Basketball The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States. AAU targets the promotion and development of young athletes. However, AAU in the youth basketball world typically doesn’t refer specifically to this nonprofit organization, but rather refers to all competitive “club” basketball, similar to how the brand “Kleenex ..read more

More than 10 years after co-founding Pro Skills Basketball and coaching kids from 2nd grade through 12th grade year-round in basketball clinics, camps, AAU teams, and private training, I have a pretty good grasp on the areas most youth basketball players need to improve, and the basketball drills that can really help individual youth players ..read more

Physical activity plays a significant role in improving a child’s well-being and promoting a balanced development with long-term benefits. In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of children and adolescents participating in sports.  Most recent data from the CDC estimates approximately 30 million children and adolescents are involved in sports. Unfortunately, a consequence of the increased popularity of sports are the injuries which come along with it due to the competitive nature encouraging children to train harder and longer.  ..read more

Footwork Pivot Basketball Drill This month’s youth basketball drill is the “footwork-line-pivot” drill. I got this drill from Coach Don Showalter of USA Basketball, and I first implemented it at the USA Basketball Youth Charlotte Boys Regional Camp that I directed back in August. At that basketball camp, we did it very effectively with 100 ..read more

6 Tips to Motivate & Connect with Young Players For all the youth coaches out there, I have a question for you: What is the first thing you did when you found out you would be coaching a youth basketball team? If I had to venture a guess, I would say a lot of you ..read more