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Please use my new homepage instead.

www.darinsatoshimaki.com

It’s that time again…voting for the all-star game has begun so please vote for me!
You can vote up to 5 times a day.
I am on the East squad under 東京, #10, 牧ダレン聡

You have to pick 2 guards and 3 bigs from each side (total of 10 players)

Please let everybody know!

オールスター投票開始, 宜しくお願いしま~す!

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Please check out my facebook page

俺のFacebookを見て下さいね!

http://www.facebook.com/DarinMaki10

From LA to JAPAN

So this afternoon i got to catch up with an old friend Darin Maki from the MTB and get updated on what was going on in his world. Darin is a professional basketball player in Tokyo, Japan. From Cali but runnin game for the Tokyo Apache across the sea. With 6 years under his belt and playing all over the world, Darin spends his time in the off season back in So Cal training and hangin with his fam. Mosley Tribes is also trying to run game in Tokyo and put people on to our classic interpretations, since launching offically in Japan this past year we have had a great response at the retail level and are glad to have folks in the street reping MT

Chambers on your face.

Darin was sold on the Lyndel in red plaid, a great look.

Los Angeles to the fullest.

Mosley Tribes の　HPとブログをみてください！

http://www.mosleytribes.com/index.html

Dont sleep on Mosley Tribes, a lot of celebs be rocking the joints and they are about to blow up in Japan!
Drake,Jay-Z, Bruce Willis, Lance Armstrong,The Rock, Kevin Connolly, Usher, Fabolous,ETC!

やっと行けたんで超楽しかったぜ！

Since we signed Jeremy Tyler, I have been reading so many negative comments about him online. First of all, if you have never talked with the guy personally, you should never pass judgement. I have spent time with him and he is a good kid, living in a world created by other people, you people. People are really bashing his decision to play in Japan and I do not understand why, I am not defending him just because he is my teammate either.

This is strictly a basketball decision. Of course he can make more money in Europe or somewhere else but how is that going to help him get to the NBA? He can go play somewhere else , get paid really well, and pick up very bad habits. Coaches in Europe do not care if he is a projected draft pick, they have their own agendas. Bob Hill is a perfect fit for him, he will prepare Jeremy for the NBA better than any college coach or Euro coach out there.

Bob Hill is a seasoned veteran NBA coach and won’t take crap from anybody. He has a great track record working and developing big men and Jeremy would definitely gain from playing under coach Hill. Ask any NBA general manager out there and they will agree this is the correct basketball decision for Jeremy. This is not about the money, this is about his livelihood and future as an NBA player.

People are also saying he doesn’t have NBA game, but who has NBA ready game when they are 16,17,18 years old?? The NBA drafts on potential and Jeremy has all the physical tools and talent as much as anybody else out there. Just because he was the first American to leave high school early to turn pro people are getting all wet. Well Europeans turn pro as young as 14. We all have dreams and goals and not all of us take a direct line to them. Stuff happens along the way and it is true for Jeremy as well. We are not perfect and have no right to judge other people.
1ove, D-MAK

Everyone patterns their game after a player before them. Straight up, I’m trying to be like Derek Fisher. Why Fish?? His longevity, leadership, clutchness, professionalism, consistancy,etc. He is just a winner who everyone respects.
People always ask me how much longer I have left to play. Well, I always say whatever age D-Fish retires I will retire at the same age. He is 35 and still goin strong…

プレイヤーにはみんな、尊敬するプレイヤーがいるものだ。俺はまさに、Derek Fisherみたいになりたい。なぜD-Fishかって？彼には、寿命、リーダーシップ、ピンチへの強さ、プロ根性、安定性がある。誰もが尊敬する勝利者だ。よく人に、いつまでプレイするの？聞かれる。俺はこう答える、「D-Fishがリタイアする年齢で俺もリタイアする」と。彼は現在３５歳。いまだ現役プレイヤーだ。
1ove,D-MAK