How to Improve Your Basketball Skills : How to Dribble a Basketball Between the Legs

In mid of 1996, NBA star Stephon Marbury became the first spokesman for AND1.
In late 1998, a videotape containing streetball stunts was delivered to AND1 by Steven Vandevere, coach of the Benjamin Cardozo High school team in Queens, New York. The tape contained low quality camera moves, poor resolution and nearly indecipherable audio featuring a streetballer by the name of Rafer Alston. At the time, Alston was a student at Fresno State who had entered the 1998 NBA Draft. The videotape would soon be known as the "Skip tape", referring to Alston's streetball nickname "Skip to my Lou".[citation needed] Alston later signed AND1's first endorsement deal.