New Edition member, and one third of Bell, Biv, DeVoe, Michael Bivins, is getting some crazy love from his hometown, Roxbury, Boston, MA. He’s just received word that the city is naming one of it’s popular basketball courts after him and Biv is still in shock over his city’s salute:
Via BostonGlobe: “I might just be numb,” Bivins (inset) told us Tuesday. “It’ll probably hit me next year when the renovation is done and they cut the ribbon and hit that light switch and the kids say, ‘Yo man, this looks nice, Mike, look at them lights.’ ”
Ramsay Park in Roxbury, will rename it’s to Michael Bivins court, which according to Mike, no singer from Boston has ever received before. Mike grew up playing basketball on Ramsay Park’s b-ball court and he’s even held his Biv 20K Blacktop Classic there to promote peace in the city and put $20K in the winning team’s hands. But never in a million years did he EVER imagine that the court it would soon bear his name:
Via BG: “I’m not a hockey player getting a basketball court named for me. I put in a lot of time playing ball,” he joked. “Ball was my way out. Until I met my brothers in New Edition, ball was gonna be my way out. One way or another, I was gonna get out.”
“Nah. When the leaders came to me last year [about the basketball court], it caught me off guard. I was really dumbfounded, like, wow,” says the singer, who hosts an annual basketball tourney at the court at Ramsay Park. “There’s street names for other people, public figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Garvey, but nobody from my city has a street sign or nothing, so this really touches me.”
It’s truly exciting to sit back and watch the members of New Edition morph into Temptations level icon status right before our eyes. They are becoming the icons we always knew they deserved to be. It was only a matter of time and they’re still carving out their journey to the Temptations level of greatness on the music industry.
Can’t wait to see their biopic, “The New Edition Story,” when it airs on BET in January 2017. Will you be watching ILOSM family?
