A basketball lover's journey from YouTube in**vator to NBA video editor
 

A basketball lover's journey from YouTube in**vator to NBA video editor
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Five and a half years ago, Nils Wagner drove from his apartment in Raleigh, **rth Carolina, to the City of Palms Classic for a high school basketball tournament in Fort Myers, Florida — with me riding shotgun.*

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

Wagner's channel helped launch the public careers of future NBA stars including*John Wall and Kyrie Irving while they were still in their mid-teens.*Hoopmixtape also introduced the masses to YouTube legends such as Aquille Carr, who never would have found fame in a**ther era.* Read more...


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