Video:
The feature and extras are generally full-frame, with some clips given a matted widescreen treatment for dramatic effect. Jersey colors are true throughout and the "special effects" added to some clips (slow-motion, fast-motion, motion blur, etc.) show up fine throughout.

Sound:
NBA Street Series - Ankle Breakers is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, according to the packaging, but it's hard to tell why. There's hardly any use of the rear channels. The bass of the all-hip-hop soundtrack registers well, however, and the track is clean; it's easy to understand the words of each player's interview, even if sometimes you don't understand why those words are in that order.

Extras:
First up is the "bonus" CD, with five hip-hop songs featured in the feature. The fourth track is a mediocre effort from Twista and the rest are uniformly awful tracks from (in order) Jae Mills, T.I., Lil' Scrappy and Trillville (the latter two rhyming over uninspired Lil' Jon beats). The songs are edited for content.

On the DVD itself are five add-on segments. Marbury gets a longer profile, this time focusing on his life growing up in Brooklyn and his struggles away from home. Retired guard Tim Hardaway gets a segment to himself as well, but it's just a compilation of highlights showing off his crossover dribble, one of the first to be used so effectively. The "Top 10 All-Time Moves" is a joke, with no moves before the mid-90s cracking the list and the logo for NBA Action plainly visible in between clips – segment recycling at its most crass. A segment on best plays from the NBA All-Star Game is better, but seemingly random. Many of the clips have nothing to do with "ankle breaking," yet Magic Johnson's game-ending three-pointer in the first all-star contest after his retirement is absent.

The star of the extras is a 37-minute piece called "NBA Showmen: Spectacular Guards." It's an NBA video of its own from 1990 and it is not as obsessed with staying "current" as the NBA Street Series appears to be, giving more time to the game's innovators. It's lone drawback is that the league apparently did not want to pay the narrator for the use of his work; there is no voiceover to explain the b-roll footage or even name the players being highlighted. The lack of narration should not bother hoops fans who can identify the older players.

Final Thoughts:
NBA Street Series - Ankle Breakers is an ideal disc for young sports fans looking for players to idolize, but true basketball fanatics will likely be left wanting more. All the highlights are in their most compact form; often times the clip is just the player starting his drive to the basket, not even bothering to show whether or not he passed, shot, dunked or fell down. This type of DVD is cotton candy for the hoops purist: Tasty to start, but ultimately unfulfilling.