Josh Englert\u2019s path to becoming a content creator capturing the game, as well as future NBA players, began when he bought his first camera, a Canon 80D, after graduating high school. The Minneapolis-native began experimenting with video content, even filming music videos for his friends, and eventually, Englert found himself traveling around Minnesota to shoot high school basketball events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the time, future NBA stars Jalen Suggs and Chet Holmgren were dominating at Minnehaha Academy, while former National Player of the Year and Uconn star Paige Bueckers was transcending the women\u2019s game at Hopkins High School. The 22-year-old brought his camera along to a few matchups and started shooting the three future McDonald\u2019s All-Americans. He\u2019d then post the flicks onto social media and tag the players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next thing he knew, the content started going viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI went to go film Jalen [Suggs’] game, and that was different,\u201d Englert says. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it before. I was like, \u2018There are high school players playing like NBA players,\u2019 pretty much with how high they can jump and everything and how good they were. I came from a small private high school, so I never saw anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The budding following led to an opportunity with SLAM and WSLAM to cover Suggs and Bueckers\u2019 senior year, which Englert did all while attending college and doing freelance work around Minnesota. Although he studied a bit of film and production in school, Englert considers himself more as a \u201cself-taught\u201d videographer who learned from Youtube and other creators, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne thing you can\u2019t teach is a creative mind. You can get all the fancy cameras, but you gotta know how to use it, gotta know how to put a good video together, you have to keep people watching it, and that\u2019s the hard part.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n