🏀⛹️‍♂️”basketball diaries”⛹🏻🏀

(the year after breaking my arm, I shifted my interests to basketball as a 4th grader)

(abandoning Shane on the wrestling mat)

(should’ve learned my lesson then and stuck with basketball)

DESCENDANTS OF WELLBROCK: ‘THE DRIBBLERS’

My father was too short to play basketball

(Billy Goat Taylor led the way / he died of a drug overdose before age 30)

(Maria Maria assumed the reins of the local youth basketball program)

In 8th grade, I played for the Valley View basketball team.

Mister Murphy was our coach.

I never shot the ball correctly

(cua pointed out that i shot with two hands instead of one)

(my brother was a superior player)
(the point guard)
(i took little interest although i was often a ‘starter’)

BASKETBALL CIRCUS:

(A GAME FOR CLOWNS AND COURT JESTERS)

I saw the Harlem Globetrotters put on a show in the Watchung Hills gymnasium

They flirted/toyed with the dumbstruck whitey suburban mamas decked out in their finest athletic gear