THE COURT UNDER the Cambie Street Bridge was probably the last place you’d expect to catch a glimpse of streetball royalty on this scorching July day in Vancouver, Canada. Luxury glass highrise condos encircled the court. Cyclists and middle-aged women with toy poodles passed back and forth along the adjacent promenade. On one hoop, a weekend warrior with a knee brace and AirPods plays solo, throwing up bricks.
But just off to the side, the band was getting back together. One by one, members of The Notic—the legendary Canadian streetball crew that dropped both defenders and jaws across Van City—started to trickle in. First it was Disaster; then came David Dazzle; then Johnny Blaze; then Delight, WhereYouAt and the rest of the crew. The daps, the jokes, the love were all captured by Kirk Thomas and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, the very same two-man film crew that had documented them nearly two decades earlier.
Last to arrive on the scene was and is the mightiest baller of them all: King Handles. Yes, the King Handles.
“Oh, look at this guy!” hollers Johnny Blaze, aka Jonathan Mubanda, as King Handles was spotted on the horizon.
Walking up with swagger,
