The Kings of Real Territory

Why Crowns Should Be Won in Cities, States, and Nations—Not Leagues

In basketball, we’ve been fooled by floating titles. Leagues bestow crowns, but what are you king of? An idea. An abstract realm made up of a closed group of teams, scattered cities, and rotating rosters. When you win their trophy—what have you conquered?

Real kings conquer territory.

It means more to be the best player in a city than the best player in a league. Better to own a state than defeat a bracket of teams. It means everything to declare yourself the best player in a country—not just the winner of a tournament.

Rimpage titles are grounded in real domains.

One league may have 500 players—but Dallas alone has 1.3 million people. The state of Texas has 31 million. The United States holds 300 million. Which carries more weight: being the best among 500, or proving yourself greater than the tens of millions living around you?

That’s the gap basketball has ignored for 100 years. The 99%—millions of players—have been forgotten. The system only grants glory to the 0.03% in the "League", as if that automatically makes them the best. But it doesn’t. Not when politics, marketing agendas, and favoritism interfere.

I reject that assumption.

If you claim the best are already crowned—prove it. One player at a time. 1v1. In a system with an objective standard where your popularity, reputation, and celebrity mean nothing. Where there are no boardrooms clearing paths for favored sons. No referees “helping.” No scripting to boost ratings. Just the raw truth of your skill. Let’s see who would really survive.

We need to rise above the fog of marketing and politics, and see clearly. I’m not a naive, starry-eyed kid anymore. I’m a man. I walk on the solid ground of truth. These rumors and exposures—about manipulated leagues, fabricated narratives—make me question the players I once admired.

I ask: was any of that real?

Don’t real fans deserve to know the truth? The question, “Who is the best?” is sacred.

Kids shape their lives around the answer. That answer should be as reliable as a sailor’s compass—not the shifting winds of hype.

Basketball needs a cleansing, lest we fall from the heights of pure competition to the depths of circus entertainment. Skill must be ultimate. Mastery must be sacred. Then our game stays healthy, our crowns legitimate, our kings just, and our results true.

When we crown a king, we want Truth to nod and applaud. If Truth shakes its head and walks out, we’ve done something very wrong.

This is why we need Rimpage.

Rimpage scans the entire population, looking for one thing: the most skilled basketball player. It closes the gap that history ignored. It does so comprehensively—city by city, state by state, nation by nation—until the truth stands undisputed.

Because only kings conquer real territory.