I Don’t Know Much: Basketball

I don’t know much about basketball, but I did see a guy make a full court shot once. Unfortunately, that will probably be the closest I will ever come to participating in the arena of major sporting history. It seems nearly everyone has some great sports moment to recall with the countless hours of reminiscing I see on times spent throwing around the ball or grinding it out on the high school football field. But for me, all I have is a basketball hoop that hung near our garage as a kid. Once in a great while I still take a drive past my old house, and the last time I checked the rotted backboard still remained a fixture as it has since my father spent an entire day swearing it up over 20 years ago. Our driveway, and the road in front of it, was prime real estate for a basketball court. We lived on the crest of a large hill, so the surface from the road to the hoop was perfectly level. You could back up completely across the street into the neighbor’s front yard and overhand th...