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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, AUGUST 11, 2019
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
It’s not duck, or rabbit season
— it’s basketball season!
Dozens of Williamsburg
ballers celebrated a Looney
Tunes-inspired makeover of
their local basketball court
on Aug. 1.
California studio Warner
Bros. revamped the ball
court at Rodney Park North
on Rodney Street with a mural
by artist Evan Rossell,
which was inspired by the
Tune Squad, an all-star team
of cartoon characters from
the 1996 cult movie “Space
Jam,” in which Bugs Bunny,
Lola Bunny, Daffy Duck,
Sylvester, Tweety, and Taz
team up with Michael Jordan
and Bill Murray to take
on the evil Monstars.
The company celebrated
the court’s Looney new look
with a closed-to-the-public,
fi ve-on-fi ve basketball game
emcee’d by Eric Bauza — the
voice actor of Bugs and Daffy
— and legendary Manhattan
street ball announcer Team
ChaChing.
Dancers performed some
smooth moves at the halftime
show of the evening
match, as dozens of onlookers
watched from the sidelines
and from outside the
park between S. Fourth and
S. Fifth streets.
The new mural just so
happens to coincide with
the recent announcement of
“Space Jam 2,” an animated
sports comedy starring LeBron
James and Don Cheadle
expected to hit theaters in
July 2021.
Bryant Crowder (top) helps Jedi Minasian, 3, dunk the ball. Xavier Sanchez
(above center), 6, gets ready to perform. The ball court was redesigned
by muralist Evan Rossell and the evening game was emceed
by the voice of Bugs and Daffy Eric Bauza and legendary Manhattan
street ball announcer Team ChaChing. Photos by Caroline Ourso
A ‘Looney’ new look!