Miles McDonald is McDeezy, a professional basketball spinner and skills entertainer from Rigby, Idaho, who turned ball spinning into one of the most watched basketball acts on the internet: 2.4 million+ subscribers and 627 million+ views on YouTube, and around 2.6 million followers combined across platforms.

The Spin

Miles found the Harlem Globetrotters on YouTube at nine years old, taught himself their tricks, and could pull off their up-and-through move before he was ten. At 14, ahead of a family trip to New York City, he gave himself a few months of two-to-three-hour daily practice and invented a new trick every week. He came out the other side with burn marks on his fingers, a street-performance routine he could not miss, and a claim few can argue with: the best ball spinner in the world.

The Channel

That same year he got his first phone and started posting basketball-spinning videos from his room, three or four a day, edited in CapCut on his phone. No studio, no fancy gear, just reps. One video, spinning a basketball for two years straight, turned the obsession into a career. At 16 he crossed two million subscribers.

The Resume

The Harlem Globetrotters noticed him in their comments, sent the DM, and put him courtside making videos with the team. The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon found him on TikTok and flew him to New York to spin a basketball on a toothbrush on national TV. AirRack picked his midnight submission for a talent show alongside the best young creators in the world. Twenty cold emails to the Utah Jazz front office turned into a real, ongoing partnership and his name on the Jumbotron. His story has run in national press like HuffPost, and his “Spinner vs.” series puts him head-to-head with elite athletes like Jordan Kilganon, Isaiah Rivera, and Chris Staples.

The Dunking

McDeezy is a dunker too. His dad, Sean, runs Jump Start Sports Academy in Rigby, so he grew up with a gym and rims at every height. At Dunk Camp 2024, his first camp, he touched 10′10″ on day one and won the 8-foot contest with a Vince Carter reverse 360 windmill, a 360 between-the-legs with a Dee Brown cover, and a 360 under-both off one foot. He also threw the lob that Jordan Southerland double-elbowed on the first try. He is now training on Jordan Kilganon’s jump program and chasing consistency on 10-foot rims.

What Is Next

Bigger tricks, higher rims, and bigger stages. The goals are already on the board: a consistent 180 windmill on 10 feet and, one cold email at a time, an NBA All-Star Weekend appearance. Follow along; it all points back to this site.