ORBITING NEW YORK CITY

GILBERT ARENAS OF THE WASHINGTON WIZARDS may have subliminally described Kenny “Serious Satellite” Satterfield in last year's commercial for NBA Live 08 with rookie Kevin Durant of the Seattle Supersonics. “Now close your eyes and repeat after me…I am the shoot button…I will take it to the hoop every time…no man will stop me,” Arenas said to Durant. But in this land of New York City streetball, and with his recent scoring sprint, Satterfield makes Arenas look like John Stockton. Scary as it may sound, New York City may be on the verge of witnessing the human shoot button, and we're not talking about X's or O's or red or blue buttons. With a human being who has made it his business to score at will, and putting up a few dimes here and there, it seems that Mr. Satterfield will continue his onslaught on the city's best until he is at a well balanced equilibrium.

In the land of street-ball, especially in New York City , you can expect a couple of things to happen. You can expect to see teams such as T.N.P. (Take No Prisoners) or DDN/Sean Bell All-Stars in either the championship game or winning a championship in every major tournament in the city. You can expect to see Corey “Homicide” Williams barrel through the city's toughest ball players. You can expect to see Kareem Reid dazzling through defenders and drugging them with the infamous spin move lay-up that not even the Invisible Man can stop. But most importantly, you can expect New York City ball players to dominate the game at a historical and phenomenal pace.

One of those New York City ball players, which has been an urban natural disaster in every major tournament in the last two summers, has been Kenny Satterfield. Satterfield, who played for Rice High School and the University of Cincinnati, also had a stint in the NBA, being drafted with the 54 th pick by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2001 Draft, followed by playing with the Denver Nuggets (2001-2002) and the Philadelphia 76ers (2002-2003). He is no stranger to New York City street-ball and being from the Bronx , Satterfield makes it his business to come home every summer and leave his imprint on the courts of every major tournament the city has to offer. Playing in tournaments from the EBC at Rucker Park , Dyckman, Kingdome, Nike Pro City and West 4 th Street , there seems to be one tournament in particular in which Satterfield foams at the mouth, waiting in anticipation to play every summer and that's Hoops in the Sun at Orchard Beach.

Having different nicknames from the “West Nile, High Energy and Grown Man Stuff,” New York City has been accustomed to probably Satterfield's most famous nickname, “Serious Satellite.” The “Serious Satellite” nickname originated at Hoops in the Sun by Pops 5 coach Kendric Flowers in the summer of 2006, and Satterfield has ran with that nickname and hasn't looked back since.

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