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Basketball All-Stars Bound Onto Static Shock

STATIC SHOCK bounds onto Kids WB! Feb. 28, 2004 with a special episode Hoop Squad, featuring basketball all-stars Karl Malone, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Steve Nash in an animated appearance at 8:30 am and 7:30 pm.

In the episode, Hoop Squad, a visit to Los Angeles for the All-Star Game brings African-American teenage superhero Static face-to-face with four of his basketball superstar heroes Karl Malone, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Steve Nash. Not only are they extraordinary basketball players, Static learns that they also have superhero identities and superpowers. Now for the first time ever, the world will be exposed to their top-secret personas as The Hoop Squad, whose incredible athletic abilities have been augmented by high-tech bio-enhancer suits.

They form the leading members of the secret organization known as the National Biotech Authority, dedicated to preserving world peace and stability. In this special episode they join forces with Static to help defeat the evil Doctor Odium and his frightening new device to dominate the world.

Karl Malone is the Pulverizer, the clever leader of the team, who can now jump higher and move faster than on the basketball court. Thanks to a super-covert, government technology, his hands have been mechanically charged up to expand on command, which allows him to pulverize anything he grabs hold of, crushing it between his bio-enhanced fingers.

Yao Ming is Center Force, with mechanical hands and extendible limbs; he can leap over tall mountains with a single bound, run at super-human speeds.

Tracy McGrady is Spin Drive. He can spin like a cyclone at top speeds, swooping down on criminals, suctioning them up into the center of the vortex and whisking them off to jail.

Steve Nash is Point Man, who can launch miniature exploding rockets from the finger tips of his armored gloves. With the incredible aim that makes him such a hoop-shooting threat, he can find his target and score a direct hit at any precise moment as he is always ready to take the next shot.

STATIC SHOCK is produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The concept for the Hoop Squad episode of STATIC SHOCK was created by Claire Kupchak, Kimberly Woods and David Garber, with production assistance provided by NBA Entertainment.