(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