Jr. NBA - MOJO App

• Warm-up, Agility, Defence, Dribbling, Passing, Shooting, 1 on 1, Rebounding, Small-Sided Games, Scrimmage

The Jr. NBA has partnered with the MOJO youth sports app to provide fun youth basketball drills through the MOJO app (including practice plans by age). Here are the games and exercises available on the Jr. NBA YouTube channel (my playlist is Jr. NBA MOJO app).

Warm-up

• Dynamic warm-up
• Hungry hungry caterpillar
  • team building
• Land, air, sea
  • plyo Simon Says
• Name game
  • circle passing, passers call names (theirs, then receivers)
  • see Passing - Star, Circle
• Rock paper scissors

Agility

• Roadrunner
  • pairs circle tag, no ball, one ball, then two balls
  • see Dribbling - Pairs circle chase
• Four corners

Defence

• Closing time
  • 5-spot closeouts
  • see Defending - Duke shooter box-out

Dribbling

• Construction site
  • two teams, turn cones up or down
  • see Dribbling - Tip-over
• Cross the river
  • gauntlet of two defenders
  • see Transition - Lemanis 1 on 1 2 on 2
• Detective Pikachu
• Dribble knockout
  • inside the 3-point line, everyone dribbling
  • see Dribbling - Group circle knockout
• Duck tails
  • everyone dribbling, pinnie tucked in
• Freeze tag
  • 2 "it" players without a ball
  • see Dribbling - Dribble tag
• Gates dribbling
  • dribble through cone gates
• Gauntlet
  • 3-team gauntlet dribbling
• Gimme five
  • high fives
• Globetrotters
  • players dribble in a circle and make moves
• Island hopping
  • 4 islands, 2 pirates to start (taggers)
• Jailbreak
  • two teams, dribblers & defenders
• Mascot tag
  • two teams, chase and tag to the sidelines
• Pac-man
  • see Dribbling - Line tiggy
• Pattern dribbling
  • dribble to lines
  • see Jr. NBA run to that line
• Red light green light
  • see Red light game
• Shadow dribbling (pairs)
  • see Dribbling - McCormick partners
• Sharks and minnows
  • see Avoid the coach, Dribbling - British bulldog
• Shield-steal
  • 1 on 1 steals & deflections
  • see Press break - Hofstra pivot
• Sleeping giant
  • see Footwork - Red light, green light
• Snake
  • tag
• Space treasure
  • 3-4 players per team, get the most balls to win
  • see Capture the cones
• Stunt drivers
  • make a move on partner
  • see Dribbling - Chicken runs
• Team dribble knockout
  • two teams, everyone dribbling
  • see Dribbling - Group circle knockout
• Team shield-steal
  • a defender gets the ball on a steal or deflection

Passing

• Basketball tennis
  • catch tough passes
• Circle passing
  • see Passing - Run the circle
• Diamond passing
  • see Footwork - Four-square pivot
• End zone
  • See Passing - Football
• Gates passing
  • pairs passing thru cone gates
• Floor is lava
  • islands passing in pairs
  • Up in the air (two players, island passing)
• Hit the cone
  • 2 teams, with dribbling
  • see Passing - Jr. NBA
• Passing tag
  • see Passing - Team passing tag
• Pass the rock
  • from the paint
• Ping pong passing
  • partner 2-ball push passes
  • see Passing - Baker drills
• Weave
  • 3-player up and back
  • see Passing - 3-man weave

Shooting

• 7 spot shooting
  • 3 makes at each spot, 2 teams at a basket
• Bank on it
  • partner bank shots & dribbling
• Baseketball
  • two teams, shooters & "runners" (dribbling)
  • Home run (two players)
• Free throw golf
  • see Shooting - Golf
• Frequent flyers
  • 5 shooters, 2 defenders
• Fullcourt shooting
  • see Shooting - 5-ball
• Make-it, take-it
  • teams, get a cone on a make
  • see Shooting - Pirate
• Minute to win it
  • teams, 60 seconds
• Musical basketballs
  • version of musical chairs with shooting
• Pop-a-shot
  • two player competition, 3-2-1 scoring
• Quick draw
  • pull-up jump shots
• Scoring duos
  • dribble hand-offs
• Spelling bee
  • each make is a letter, spell a word
• Tunnel ball
  • two teams, shooters & "tunnellers"
• Wrap battle
  • waist wraps to layups, then jump shots

1 on 1

• 1 on 1
  • two lines on each side, coach passes to one line, the other defends
• Alley hoops
  • see 1 on 1 - Texas containment
• Surprise party
  • put ball on defender's back
  • see Back 1-on-1
• Switch up
  • 3 players, attack, pass, defend
  • see Defending - Close-out lines

Rebounding

• Rebound relay
  • 1 on 1
  • see Rebounding - Search and putback
• On the board
  • 2 on 2
  • see Rebounding - Oakland Knight

Small-Sided Games

• 2 on 1
  • see Defending a 2 on 1; Attack/defend - 2 on 1 chair drill, 2 on 1 halfcourt
• 3 on 2
  • see Izzo halfcourt 3 on 2, 2 on 1
• Buzzer beater
  • late-game situations
• Champions and challengers
  • 3 teams, stops
  • see Scrimmages - Cut-throat
• Criss cross
  • 3 on 3 close-out
  • see Attack/defend - Serbia close-out
• Dean Smith
  • score only on an assist
• Flying numbers
  • 1 on 1 to 5 on 5 from the sidelines (or baseline)
  • see 1 on 1 - Numbers, Attack/defend - Numbers from centre
• Good shot, great shot
  • 4 on 3 shoot or pass, no dribbling
  • see Scrimmage - 4 on 3
• Halfcourt 2 on 2
• Keep Away
  • 3 on 1
  • see Passing - Run and support
• More to score
  • everyone on a team has to score to win
• One up
  • 3 on 3, a defender touches the baseline
  • see Transition - 4 on 4 recover
• Perfect possession
  • 2 teams, defend the whole shot clock
  • see Scrimmage - 24 seconds
• Staying power
  • 3 teams fullcourt, make it take it
  • see Scrimmage - 4 on 4 on 4 fullcourt
• Tic-Tac-Toe
  • 3 on 3 and tic-tac-toe
• Up and back
  • 2 on 2 around cones
  • see Attack/defend - 2 on 2 cones

Scrimmage

• 2 teams, check the ball, make-it take-it or alternate possessions