Cam Wilder
Basketball creator who founded the traveling AAU team Rod Wave Elite and films its games, tryouts and park takeovers.
Sports · TikTok · Updated Sep 23, 2026
Cam Wilder is a basketball creator who started with comedy skits on TikTok and now runs Rod Wave Elite, the traveling AAU team he founded in 2023 and named after his favorite artist. He films the games, the tryouts and the park takeovers that draw crowds of a thousand people to public courts, and he plays and coaches on the team himself. He has about 7.4 million followers on TikTok and 2.3 million subscribers on YouTube.
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Questions people ask
Who is Cam Wilder?
Cam Wilder is a basketball creator from Arizona. He got known for comedy skits on TikTok, then in 2023 founded Rod Wave Elite, an AAU team stacked with top recruits and social-media-famous prospects that travels the country, and made the team the show. He has about 7.4 million followers on TikTok and 2.3 million on YouTube.
What is Rod Wave Elite?
The AAU program Cam founded in 2023 and named after the rapper Rod Wave. He assembles a new lineup of high-level recruits for tournaments, films everything, and the team competed as one of the Overtime Elite franchises in the 2023 to 2024 season, reaching the finals. Prospects who have played for it include Jasper Johnson, Nelson Neumann and Tyran Frazier. The Washington Post called it the high school basketball team that was made for the internet.
Did Cam Wilder play college basketball?
Briefly. He played high school ball at Millennium in Goodyear, Arizona, committed to Midland University, an NAIA school in Fremont, Nebraska, and appeared in two games in the 2019 to 2020 season before the content took over.
How tall is Cam Wilder?
His college roster listed him at 6 feet 4 and his high school profile at 6 feet 3. He has not published a number himself, so take your pick within an inch.
How old is Cam Wilder?
He is 25. Famous Birthdays lists October 5, 2000.
What is Cam Wilder’s real name?
Cameron Wilder, according to his high school and college roster listings. He goes by Cam everywhere and has not made a point of the full name himself.
Why is Cam Wilder called Choppa?
It is a nickname he uses for himself in his own posts, usually when he has a big scoring night. That is the whole explanation he has given, and it is a good one.
What is a Cam Wilder park takeover?
He shows up at a public court in a city, announces it, and plays pickup in front of whoever comes. In Lincoln, Nebraska in July 2024 about a thousand people came, mostly middle and high schoolers, and the city brought police for traffic. He went back the next summer for a ticketed free event, and headlined a similar takeover in Perth, Australia in January 2026.
Where can I watch Cam Wilder?
TikTok @camwilder, YouTube @CamWilder, Instagram @camwilderr, and the team account @camwilderaau on TikTok.
What is Cam Wilder’s net worth?
He does not publish a number and neither do we. Between the channels, the team and the events, it is a real business with a lot of moving parts, and that is the honest version.
Who represents Cam Wilder?
He runs his own brand, with bookings through his own team. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because he built something most creators only talk about, a team with its own audience. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Cam Wilder. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. Cam turned a content channel into a franchise. The team gives every video a cast, a season and stakes, and the park takeovers turn the audience into the event. Very few creators have built something the audience can show up to.
Why it travels. Basketball recruits bring their own followings, so every new lineup brings a new set of fans, and a game against another creator’s team gets shared by both sides. The takeovers make local news wherever they land, which is reach money cannot buy.
Brand fit. Sneakers, sports drinks, apparel, ticketing, athletic gear. A brand on Rod Wave Elite is on a team, on a court and on a schedule, which is closer to a sports sponsorship than a creator deal.
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Sources: Cam Wilder’s TikTok, YouTube and Instagram; Famous Birthdays; Star Tribune; Sports Illustrated, July 2025; The Washington Post, July 15, 2025; KFOR on the Lincoln takeover; City of Stirling on Summer Jam Perth; RealGM and MaxPreps rosters. Follower counts via Social Blade, September 2026.
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