Hero Ball | Career Angles

A style of basketball played by a person with average or mediocre talent who nonetheless believes he is the second coming of Michael Jordan. It involves lots of ball-hogging, mindless spinning and jumping, and taking a bunch of highly contested fadeaway jumpers that almost never go in.

~UrbanDictionary.com

Pete Maravich was a great player among mediocre players. If you watch the way he played on old YouTube videos, he looks like the original Steph Curry. He takes shots from every direction with every type of defense designed to stop him and every defender hanging off of his shorts. He played hero ball with very few resources around them to score but with the others there to complement his style of play.

Steph Curry plays the same way except he has talent around him that has helped him be an NBA champion multiple times.

Have you seen Patrick Mahomes play quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs? Hero ball from a quarterback.

I was watching Sports Center this morning. They did a story about the star player of one team who dribbled the ball up the court and with five seconds left, his team losing by one point, who tried to dribble through three defenders to score a basket and was fouled.

They called it “hero ball” and then promptly showed how he had done the same thing in…