Yeah, Rick, basketball and stick-ball were the sports staples in my neighborhood in the Bronx...Clyde Frazier, Nate the Skate Archibald, Dave Debuesher(sp)who I had a massive school girl crush! were among our heros...of course Dave Cowen, Havliceck, Kareem Abdul Jabbar et.al. on the west coast were thorns in our sides!...but made for one of the most fun pro B'ball of my generation...
My brother is 5'8...but was dubbed, Nate the Skate in our neighborhood...fast as lightening he would weave in and around the big guys in the 'hood...grew up in a mult-ethnic, multi-racial neighborhood...when the neighborhood guys were getting reading to assemble teams, he was the only white guy that some teams wanted:)
I never made it beyond a catholic all girls' school b'ball:( My most persistant problem was staying in the 3 second violation area...I do have one very fond memory of on a Sunday morning when I was about 10 or so, my brother is 5 years older, one basketball in the house...while he was slumbering from the previous night's partying, I grabbed the opportunity to steal his ball and went to the park...a bunch of teen age guys were there who I didn't know...and I said, "Game anyone"?...so they let me play with them, score! I thought...at some point told my bro' and apparently they were just indulging me because they knew him...so that's my 15 minutes of fame playing with the 'boys'...
My brother also, because of his height and academic priorities at Columbia never took it further...and I did the good-girl thing and became a nurse...
<<could hit all day long from 22.25 feet out.>>>
Hey pro ball could have used your talent esp. since the 3pt rule...come in for those last quarter thrillers...I follow the NCAA but no faves since I went to a tiny college with no sports program to speak of...really wanted Georgia Tech to get it this year...but couldn't tell my nephews who are life-long residents of Connecticut:)
Nice memories...
Zeta...ps...the Laker soap opera continues...the housekeeper of a home that he owns, in which one of the mothers of his children lives, was killed by her son during a fight as they were cleaning the house...Friday night during the game...WEIRD... |
