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Hoops
important to be fast and a good jumper.
The tree was dying, a woodpecker practice ground. It probably would have crashed under the weight of my next free throw. But to lose it suddenly is similar to losing a pet; it never comes at an opportune time.
It is a notation in time.
For nearly as long as I can remember, I would wrap up in a sweat shirt or a hockey jersey, lie about having completed my homework, slap the old roundball and play some hoops.
I was Clyde Frazier from the top of the key, Bill Bradley from the comer, Willis Reed along the baseline and at the comer of the lane. I was New York Knicks’ fan.
Also, I was unbeatable on my home court. Wherever that was.
It started on the swing set in the back yard when my father strung a goal about six feet off the ground, which was of proportionate height, seeing how I was only three feet off the ground.
When the swing set rusted and blew away like dust, the court shifted to the frv nt yard, using the driveway as a baseline and the slate walkway as the three-second lane. The pole light was out
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