Ballers Only

As you probably don't know, for most of my life basketball was my sport of choice. More recently I've become more of a soccer fan and have played a lot of soccer too, but basketball was definitely my first love! I remember one of the more exciting Christmas presents of my life was when my parents bought a basketball hoop to put up on the edge of our driveway. I spend many a summer night outside playing H-O-R-S-E with my brothers, practicing my free throws, and dunking to my heart's content (on a significantly lower hoop than normal, just for the record. At my peak levels of athleticism I was able to dunk a volleyball, but never quite got a basketball to go down). I have some of the weakest ankles known to man, so in recent years playing basketball usually ends up with me re-spraining an ankle and regretting my decision to play for the next several weeks. Now that I think of it, I'm probably due to play again and re-sprain something!

I saw this old, run-down hoop in a schoolyard while shooting some engagement pictures, and it brought back fond memories of playing basketball on whatever hoop happened to be around at the time. I'm curious if any of you grew up playing sports, and if so, what sports? I'm sure there's a wide variety with how multi-cultural the Steemit community is. Let me know in the comments!