{"id":2911,"date":"2016-04-19T02:23:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/a-basketball-lovers-journey-from-youtube-innovator-to-nba-video-editor\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T02:23:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:23:25","slug":"a-basketball-lovers-journey-from-youtube-innovator-to-nba-video-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/a-basketball-lovers-journey-from-youtube-innovator-to-nba-video-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"A basketball lover's journey from YouTube innovator to NBA video editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Five and a half years ago, Nils Wagner drove from his apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina, to the City of Palms Classic for a high school basketball tournament in Fort Myers, Florida \u2014 with me riding shotgun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wagner spent the ensuing days working like a madman. For more than 16 hours per day, he filmed future college and NBA<\/a> stars, then edited the highlight clips to rap beats for his popular YouTube channel, Hoopmixtape. I wrote a story about it<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wagner’s channel helped launch the public careers of future NBA stars including,\u00a0John Wall<\/a> and Kyrie Irving<\/a> while they were still in their mid-teens.\u00a0Hoopmixtape<\/a> also introduced the masses to YouTube legends such as Aquille Carr<\/a>, who never would have found fame in another era.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Five and a half years ago, Nils Wagner drove from his apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina, to the City of Palms Classic for a high school basketball tournament in Fort Myers, Florida \u2014 with me riding shotgun.\u00a0 Wagner spent the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1577,2162,738,740,742],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-basketball","tag-entertainmentb","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}