Nick Briz
A Florida-born streetball creator who turned raw pickup-basketball footage into a multi-platform following of over a million fans.
From public courts to a platform
Nick Briz is a Florida-born streetball content creator and trainer who turned raw pickup-basketball footage into a multi-platform following of over a million fans. Born July 22, 1996 in Oviedo, Florida, he launched his YouTube channel in July 2018 and broke through in January 2020 with a viral video shot on a public court in Pine Hills, Florida.
That video — trading 1v1 and 5v5 games with strangers, backed by unfiltered trash talk that regularly escalates into real confrontations on camera — built an audience of hundreds of thousands across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Nick has since leveraged that reach into Elite Performance Academy, an online jump-training and athletic development program built around the vertical-jump and dunk-training drills he's known for on social media.
From public courts to a platform
- 1996
- Born in Oviedo, Florida — July 22, 1996; attended Hagerty High School
- 2018
- YouTube channel launches — posting pickup-basketball footage from courts around Florida
- Jan 2020
- The Pine Hills breakout — a viral 1v1/5v5 video with trash talk and strangers on a public court
- 2020s
- Multi-platform growth — 700K+ YouTube, 85M+ views, 380K Instagram, 700K TikTok
- Ongoing
- Elite Performance Academy — online vertical-jump and athletic-performance training via briznick.com
'Cause I'm not soft bro, like I grew up playing downtown when I was 9 years old. I grew up with my brothers and what was fun to us was like tackling each other.
The facts
- Based
- Oviedo / Orlando area, Florida
- Born
- July 22, 1996 — Oviedo, Florida
- Channel
- YouTube launched July 2018
- Breakout
- Viral Pine Hills, FL callout video — January 2020
- Program
- Elite Performance Academy — online vertical-jump training
- Contact
- team@briznick.com