New York is the greatest city on Earth. If you don't believe it, just ask a New Yorker about the city, then sit back and be prepared to receive a treatise on how everything in the Big Apple is better than any equivalent thing anywhere else on the planet.

To wit, take a look at this piece from SI.com about an ongoing annual pilgrimage of New York City hoops talent to the suburbs for a take-no-prisoners series of games in a tiny gym.

The concept of tough basketball competition among the younger set is interesting enough, but it presumes that such a thing only exists in New York. No doubt the summer league games in Baltimore or practically any other East Coast city is probably just as challenging, but just doesn't take place in the world's most (self) important city.