10 Weeks ago we were unsure if we were going to be able to get a full season of basketball in for our players. But thanks to our amazing players, coaches, parents, staff and fans we made it! Along with the normal challenges that running a youth sports organization presents…. In 9 weeks during this delayed season full of unprecedented new challenges we

• Had 34 awesome teams
• Approximately 615 practices dealing with terrible summer weather
• 162 games with many exciting endings
• 9,256 COVID tool checkins
• Thanks to our diligent face cover wearing spectators and staff we had no reported COVID-19 infections traced back to any of our events.
• An awesome playoff weekend with little conflict, besides intense competition.
• Incredible All-Star event with our top 30% players playing their hearts out.

Thanks again to everyone involved and we hope you continue to join us in making the basketball experience for our community’s youth athletes so good that they choose the game of basketball as their #1 sport!

BLUE CHIP ALL-STAR GAME

Coach Laettner enjoyed watching and evaluating the top 30% performing players for Summer season. We had visits from school coaches scouting players and watching game tape. Great job to the players for giving us more exciting games for us to watch!

Blue Chip Elite Player Pool Tryout Invites!

Coach Laettner and staff are almost finished with season evaluations and will be sending tryout invites to our players who are basketball focused and want to improve their game, play in more competitive teams, divisions and represent Blue Chip at North Florida AAU tournaments and potentially play on our flagship teams. Only select players will receive an invite so keep an eye out for an email late Monday evening for a Thursday tryout. Check your spam and if your player doesn’t receive an invite tell them to work harder next season and stand out from the crowd with their sills and fundamental skills and teamwork. For players who think they should have been invited or already have tournament experience fill out a tryout form here and we may queue you up for our next open tryout.

For those who may not be familiar with Coach Laettner and the tremendous opportunity our player has by having him as part of our community for at least the next 5 years: (he wouldn’t like us to brag on him but he’s)

• Widely regarded as having one of, if not, the most successful NCAA Division 1 careers ever, playing at Duke, appearing in 4 Final Fours and winning back to back National Championships
• Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame with the Olympic Gold Medal winning Dream Team
• Played against Michael Jordan in the “Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw”
• Played 180+ games with Jordan as his teammate and played with and against many NBA legends over a 13 year career.
• NBA All-Star
• Was the original StretchBig
• Coach K, one of the most well renown and highest paid coaches in the history of basketball has said Christian Laettner was the smartest player he has ever coached
• Was a product of basketball development camps and training.
  
  Considering Coach Laettner’s many years of executing core basketball fundamentals, teaching and coaching the things he learned from Coach K and the NBA teams and legends he has played with and against… There really is no one better in the country, much less North Florida, to lead our coaches and develop the players on how to play the game physically and mentally.
  
  We are very fortunate to have such an incredible basketball resource living right here in our community who has really taken to the mission we established with the Blue Chip Basketball Association less than a year ago.

Fall Registration OPEN NOW!

Photos of the Week

Lots of Playoff and All-Star photos just posted!

TOURNAMENT BRACKETS POSTED!

BLUE CHIP ALL-STAR GAME

Our Director of Coaching and Basketball Development, Coach Christian Laettner, and Staff is looking forward to watching the best ballers in the league compete on All-Star Sunday 8/30.

Player invites will be sent directly to players by Wednesday evening.

This event is designed to showcase and prepare our players for upper-level competitive play and tournaments so the games will be AAU/USAB tournament format of four 8 minute quarters with dead ball clock stoppage.

Players on the winning teams will be declared our Blue Chip All-Stars for this season and will be posted on social media and our websites. We also know our Blue Chip, Middle School, and High School Coaches will be watching in person and on our game tape.

ALL entrants, except those ages 8 and under, will need a $5 ticket to participate or spectate. any proceeds from this event will be placed in the set aside for hardship scholarships that will help fund exceptional student-athletes whose families have come under a demonstrated financial hardship. We currently have $180 in the account as a donation from an awesome family whose player could not attend our summer camp but refused a refund. We are blessed to have such a giving community!

This will be a very exciting and fun event. If we have extra time at half we will also have contests for spectators. Tickets will be released by this Friday.

Game Times will be: 10U @ 1pm – 12U @ 2PM – 14U @ 3pm – 16U @ 4pm

GotNEXT!

Another amazing GotNEXT NBA2k Style Streetball Tournament with some of the top ballers in North Florida!

Fall Registration OPEN NOW!

Photos of the Week

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GotNEXT UPDATE!

Currently, the 8-10pm slot this Thursday is secured by 7-8th grade does not turn 15 by Sept 1st division. The 6-8 slot is still waiting to be taken. We have a 5-6th grade not older than 13 by Sept 1st team in and some players looking for a team. So High Schoolers or another set of Middle Schoolers could jump in and grab it so spread the word. Lots of people have sent us messages saying they are going to pull up, but it’s based on who completes registration first.

CONGRATS! 18U Champions – The Warriors

There were a ton of barn burners in 18U division this year and playoff weekend was no exception. Sunday was amazing and The Warriors played back to back and were able to outlast the FC Rattlers to win the trophy. This is a great group players that we enjoyed watching and developing over the years and it is bittersweet to see so many of our 18U players now moving on to College and their adult lives. Good luck to you all and we hope to see some of you back as coaches in the league soon! Check out their exciting championship game below.

Coach Farewell

It was an emotional weekend as we had to say goodbye to one of our long time coaches Todd Mullins and his wife Cami and sons Brody and Champ. Blue Chip would not be on the path it is without the passion that Coach Todd poured into these players. Wish Todd well as he moves back to his hometown in Indiana to take care of his elderly father and we hope that we will see him back on our courts coaching at some time in the future.

BLUE CHIP ALL-STAR GAME

Our Director of Coaching and Basketball Development, Coach Christian Laettner, and Staff have been evaluating players on game day, through tape and feedback from coaches and we are planning on having a Blue Chip All-Star game day at the end of the season. It should be super fun and will be a chance for Coach Laettner to come in and watch all of our top players show off their skills. More details to come.

Fall Registration Information COMING SOON!

Coaching Certification and Interest

We are back in the process of developing our coach certification program and working on training our Jr NBA rec coaches with basic certification and also developing volunteer and paid staff who want to gym train and practice weekly and coach up our teams of players out of the player pool who will be competing in local & AAU tournaments and leagues throughout the coming year. If you have an interest please email us for the next steps in your coaching path with Blue Chip Elite.

Standings and Leaderboards

Photos of the Week

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Game Videos

Livestream Status

We spent most of Monday at the school working on the wifi connection and looks like they have our access working. No Guarantees, but we should finally be good to go for this weekend, so thanks for your patience!

COVID-19

We have had a very smooth process using the temp check-in and COVID tool station. Most non-participants have complied with mask-wearing in the facility. A few non-participants have decided not to wear masks or act annoyed with compliance. Please help the volunteer personnel have a pleasant time during you and your guest’s arrival. Make sure everyone has prefilled out their tool and has a mask and wears it when spectating. If you don’t feel well, stay home. Players who are not in the current game should be wearing masks. The schools monitor our activities by CCTV and our contract with them, to be able to use the facilities, requires us to follow CDC guidelines and specific procedures, so please do not be the one sour apple that ruins the batch!

Some of Coach Laettner’s Game Tape Comments

Great offensive sequence below by Blue team. Nice organization, no rush, good composure. they move the ball around with very little dribbling, they fill their spots, and end up with a give and go against a zone leading to layup. Outstanding!

Excellent zone offense below……white team makes 4 passes without the ball hitting the floor. Players are cutting (which moves the defense) and then a cut and replace to the 3pt line and an easy-open jumper is made. Very nice!

Coach Laettner Quote

“I can tell if good or bad basketball is being played without even entering a gym. While I am outside listening, if I hear more shoe squeaks than dribbling, it’s usually going to be good basketball. If I hear more dribbles than shoe squeaks, it’s almost always bad basketball.”

Standings and Leaderboards

Photos of the Week

If you would like to submit photos weekly to be featured for any games, click download photos above and then join the album and then upload your game photos.

Game Videos