The formats he works in, and the organisations behind them.
Both his Instagram and X bios read “Director of @BALLISLIFE”. His own YouTube channel description says he spent years “producing content for friends at BALLISLIFE, NIKE, SPRITE, REDBULL, TNT (and more)” before starting his own channel. Ballislife publishes no staff page, so the scope of the role is not documented publicly.
See the brandsThe only link in his Instagram bio is hoopitup.com/phoenix. That event is a 3x3 tournament with slam dunk and three-point contests at Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, Arizona on Saturday 18 July 2026, run by Big Ticket Sports LLC — $200 per team to enter, with a $1,000 cash prize in the dunk contest. His exact role at the event is not stated on the event page.
EnquireHis own organisation, created to push young people to chase and capture their dreams, with presentations built for Native lands through the NABI Foundation. No current website could be verified — the upriseyouthmovement.org domain now belongs to an unrelated Colorado tobacco-prevention programme, so nothing on that site should be read as his.
EnquireHe tours reservation to reservation, performing a dunk exhibition and telling his own story to tribal youth. Tulalip News documented one such night in Washington State in May 2015, in front of an estimated 150 young people. There is no published tour schedule or fee for these visits.
EnquireIn January 2016 RAADR, Inc. of Phoenix announced a partnership with Dobbs, Gary Smith and the Dare to Dream Foundation to tour middle and high schools across the Phoenix metro with school-wide assemblies and workshops on cyber bullying. Whether that programme is still running was not verifiable.
EnquireHis own bio lists appearances on TNT, NBA TV, ESPN and Fox Sports. He reached the final of TNT's The Dunk King in 2016, dunking blindfolded over three people and then over a man on fire.
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