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Can Julian Newman WIN The Finals, Or Will Mikey Williams & Kyree Walker Take The Crown!? ????

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Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse turned into the loudest gym in New York for one night, and the finale delivered exactly the chaos everyone showed up for.

Overtime’s inaugural Takeover crowned its champion on May 18, 2019, inside the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse in Brooklyn, a Converse-backed showcase built to put the country’s top high school and prep prospects on one streetball-style stage. The tournament ran hot from the jump, with hard fouls, real tussles, and trash talk that made clear nobody treated this as an exhibition. It all funneled down to a single winner-take-all game for the crown.

• Mikey Williams’ squad — with Kyree Walker, Aidan Holloway, and Zaire Wade — went unbeaten through the bracket to lock up a finals berth without dropping a game.
• The championship matchup pitted that group against a physical unit led by five-star 2020 guard Jalen Suggs, rounded out by Niven Glover, Jahvon Quinerly, Khalif Battle, and Skyy Clark.
• The final pushed into overtime before Williams and Walker’s team edged Suggs’ squad to claim the first-ever Overtime Takeover title.

The Road to the Finals

Mikey Williams — the viral middle-school sensation heading into his freshman year of high school — never needed a play-in game. His team ran the table in pool play, which meant Williams, Walker, Holloway, and Wade walked into the championship fresh while other squads had to survive an extra elimination round just to get there. That cushion mattered once the physicality ramped up in the final.

On the other side of the bracket, Jalen Suggs assembled a roster built to match anyone’s size and speed: Niven Glover, Jahvon Quinerly, Khalif Battle, and Skyy Clark gave him ball-handling, length, and shot-making at every spot on the floor. That group ground its way through the field the hard way, which set up a finals matchup between a team that hadn’t been tested and a team that had already been through a dogfight or two.

A Championship Game Worth the Hype

The final lived up to the buildup Overtime had been selling all night. Hard screens turned into shoving matches, highlight dunks got answered with even bigger ones, and the trash talk between Williams’ side and Suggs’ crew never let up possession to possession. Neither team blinked, and neither team could put the other away in regulation.

It was a battle, and it even went into overtime.

That overtime period is where the game turned. Williams and Kyree Walker took over down the stretch, with Walker’s size at 6-foot-5 becoming a problem Suggs’ defense couldn’t solve in the extra frame. Mikey Williams’ team closed it out to secure the win and the Takeover crown, capping a run through the event without a single loss on the ledger.

Roster Analysis Reveals Team Talent

Look at the names on both benches and it’s clear why Overtime built this event around Converse in the first place — this wasn’t a random pickup run. Jahvon Quinerly, Skyy Clark, Khalif Battle, and Niven Glover alongside Jalen Suggs gave the runner-up squad a lineup that could have started for plenty of AAU programs outright. Aidan Holloway and Zaire Wade complemented Williams and Walker on the other end, giving both sides scoring, passing, and length at every position.

Overtime has built a habit of turning stunts and showcases into must-watch footage — the same instinct behind stunts like the world’s longest t-shirt launch — but the Takeover final proved the brand could stage a genuine competitive event, not just a spectacle. The hard fouls and overtime finish weren’t scripted drama; they were a real basketball game between kids who wanted to win.

Mikey Williams and Kyree Walker walk away from Brooklyn with the first Overtime Takeover title in hand, and Jalen Suggs’ squad walks away having pushed the eventual champs to overtime with a five-star recruit and four other high-major names on the floor. For a made-for-social-media event, the final scoreline came down to the same thing it always does on a real court: who made the tougher play when the clock hit zero.