Atlanta, Georgia · Streetball · Run-N-Shoot

Everybody knows meas Hot Sauce.

Philip Champion played the AND1 Mixtape Tour from the year it began. Volume 3 put him in front of the world in February 2001 — and twenty-five years later he is still on the floor, still on the tape, still the handle everybody copies.

  • AND1 Mixtape Tour, 2000–04 & 2006–08
  • Jewelz in Crossover (2006)
  • Netflix — Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1
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On the record

Four numbers, four sources

Every figure here is somebody else's published number — Instagram's own counter, his AND1 player card, Wikipedia. Nothing on this site is estimated.

2000
On the tour from year one
Wikipedia: he has played the AND1 Mixtape Tour “from its creation in 2000”.
Vol. 3
The tape that broke him out
February 2001. Ballislife: it “introduced the world to Hot Sauce and streetball to the masses.”
298K
Instagram followers
Instagram's own count for @sizzman3, read 27 August 2026.
6′1″
Listed height, 160 lb
From his own AND1 player bio, published May 2004.
What he takes on

Bring him to the floor

Appearances, exhibitions, camps and camera work — booked direct, at sizzman03@yahoo.com.

Appearances

Appearances & Exhibitions

Halftime, arena activation, festival, corporate floor, grand opening. The format the Atlanta Hawks used in 2018 — put a fan in front of him for twenty-four seconds and let the building watch. No appearance fee is published; every engagement is quoted individually.

Enquire
Camps

Skills Camps & Clinics

Age-banded handle work. In June 2026 he headlined a full week in Honolulu with Team Heawekooo — an outdoor kids camp for grades 1–4, a camp for grades 5–8, a high-school session and an all-star game. That week ran at $15 pre-registration, $25 on the day, priced and collected by the promoter.

Bring him to your city
Direct to camera

Cameo Videos

The one thing he sells at a published price. Personalised video, 24-hour delivery, rated 5.00 from 9 reviews, live since August 2022. Personal and business tiers, plus a paid direct message.

Open his Cameo
Philip Champion in an AND1 shirt
The short version

A tape, a gym,
and a whole decade

He was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky on 13 June 1976 and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. His basketball home became Run-N-Shoot in Atlanta — the court he named as his own on his 2004 AND1 player card.

AND1 found him there. He turned professional in 2000, and in February 2001 Mixtape Volume 3 went out on free VHS and did the rest. The tour became half-hour Streetball segments on ESPN2 and ran until 2008.

He is still working. In 2026 alone: AND1 All-Star Weekend, SLAM's Rapid Fire, and a headline basketball week in Honolulu.

Everyone knows me as Hot Sauce. 2 Chainz shouted me out in one of his verses. I’ve been in a Mountain Dew commercial. I’ve been in movies.
Philip Champion to TMZ Sports, April 2015 — reported by theScore
In frame

His own camera roll

Every image below was posted by him or tagged him, and was downloaded from Instagram at full resolution.

AND1 Mixtape Tour
AND1 Mixtape Tour
AND1, 2026
AND1, 2026
SLAM x AND1 Rapid Fire
SLAM x AND1 Rapid Fire
His top five ankle breakers
His top five ankle breakers
Honolulu, June 2026
Honolulu, June 2026
Most copied, his list
Most copied, his list
Where these came fromEvery photograph and graphic on this site comes from Instagram — his own account @sizzman3, the official @and1 account, @slam, or @team.heawekooo, who promoted his Hawai’i camp week. Nothing here is stock photography, and nothing is hotlinked: every file is stored with this site. No rights-clear portrait of him exists on Wikimedia Commons, so none is used.