How YouTube Ballers Show the Rise of Amateurism

Tristan Jass’s YouTube channel has over 2.8 million subscribers.

The biggest basketball player on YouTube isn’t Lebron James. It isn’t James Harden, Kylie Irving, or even Steph Curry. It’s a shaggy-haired 21-year-old from Kenosha, Wisconsin.

If you came across the most prominent basketball player on YouTube, you wouldn’t give him a second glance. Standing at a mere 5’9”, Tristan Jass’s pickup games at parks and rec centers dominate the YouTube…