The Friendly Bounce Virtual NBA Art Gallery
By Ian Levy
Hello and welcome to Friendly Bounce’s first ever virtual NBA art gallery night.
As big fans of both basketball and art, we sought to combine the two in order to create an NBA art gallery to showcase the artistic abilities of basketball fans around the world. We don’t know how often these gallery nights will occur, but rest assured there will be many more of them throughout the year. Stay tuned to our Twitter dot com feed to learn of upcoming dates and how to submit your pieces to be shown.
There are no rules or requirements about the art we want to display, other than that it is relevant to basketball, and is respectful. These can be drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, they can be done by hand, or with the help of a computer. Almost anything can be art: that’s what makes it so great.
And with that, the inaugural Friendly Bounce Virtual NBA Art Gallery is officially open.
Our first piece here was submitted by our editor, Jack (@jackhaveitall). It is pencil on computer paper, and depicts LeBron James making Thabo Sefolosha fall during last night’s game between the Cavaliers and Hawks.
Next we have a fine piece from Tom (@TJFSports), who writes for our sister site, Upside and Motor. It shows his love for the game of basketball.
Here we have some works submitted to us by Andy (@andyblarsen), who writes about the Utah Jazz at Salt Lake City Hoops. These are not his works, but rather the works of Jeremy Evans of the Utah Jazz. They were originally displayed at Energy Solutions Arena, and you can go here to find out more about his work.
Our next piece features Rodney Rogers, circa 2003, and it comes to us from Michael (@mrb85). It depicts Rogers smiling and spinning a basketball on his finger.
Lastly, we have another piece from our editor, Jack. It shows the real story behind Kelly Olynyk getting so many dunks last night in the Celtics’ win over the Orlando Magic.
Thank you for coming to TFB’s first ever Virtual NBA Art Gallery night. We hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to submit your own work, and be sure to come again. – Your friends at Friendly Bounce.