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Raptors Dance Pak Brings it to Montreal

James, East Coast Correspondent | Published on Oct 19, 2012

By Victor Swoboda Montreal Gazette It’s the fourth quarter, the score’s tied, and twenty thousand fans at the Air Canada Centre are screaming for the Toronto Raptors to pull out a win — time for Ashley and Nina to go to work. The two are among 14 young women of the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak, […]

Initiation: Meet Brooklynettes Coach Adar Wellington

James, East Coast Correspondent | Published on Oct 18, 2012

Brooklyn Nets dance team coach Adar Wellington picked up pirouettes before the potty. “I pretty much came out of the womb dancing,” jokes the limber beauty, who parlayed concert touring stretches with Diddy and Rihanna into principle music video features for Kanye (“Lost In The World”) and Usher (“Scream”). Like Jay-Z’s infantile b-ball dynasty, the […]

Survivor: Luvabulls

James, East Coast Correspondent | Published on Oct 17, 2012

It takes more than pom poms and a smile to make the Bulls’ dance team By Ryan Smith For RedEye Considering she’d just spent several weeks preparing for it, the seven minutes Ashley Piepenbrink spent kicking, twirling and dancing in front of judges in her bid to join the Luvabulls felt more like two seconds. […]

Magic Dancers: Recapping Trip to Spain

James, East Coast Correspondent | Published on Oct 16, 2012

[Orlando Magic Dancers in Spain] It was another successful and enjoyable trip to Europe for the Orlando Magic Dancers. Over the course of the last nine seasons the Dancers have visited 19 different countries in their travels abroad for Military tours and NBA events. This particular voyage took the girls to Bilbao, Spain for an […]

Sister Sister

James, East Coast Correspondent | Published on Oct 8, 2012

By Stefanie Carrier OrlandoMagic.com The relationship that the Orlando Magic Dancers share is a relationship similar to that of sisters. The close bonds they’ve formed from hours of practice, games and appearances are evident in the friendships they share. For two members of the dance team however, that term is used literally. Candace and Heather […]

So you didn’t make the team. You can pretend on Halloween!

Sasha | Published on Oct 5, 2012

Hardcourt Halloween: NBA licenses sexy ‘dance team’ costumes By Adam Tschorn Los Angeles Times October 4, 2012, 10:32 a.m. Since the NBA season officially gets underway the day before All Hallows Eve, perhaps it’s fitting that one of the National Basketball Assn.’s latest licensing deals is for women’s Halloween costumes. Described by the NBA as […]