Warm weather is here, and that means three things: some people will play basketball outdoors, other people will not play basketball outdoors, and a third group of people will think about the two options and waver somewhere between, perhaps eventually deciding to buy ice cream cones (not the ice cream, just the cones). Granted, there are a lot more important summertime topics, but I am finding that nothing represents people more than the basketball hoops they have outside their homes. Except for maybe their jobs. And their Facebook profiles. And their pets. But we can save those for another day…
First, we have those people with the very shiny, new basketball hoops, typically found in people’s driveways near their garage doors. While the first inclination would be to praise the owners of these basketball hoops for keeping them so neat and clean, the reality is that they are only neat and clean because they are not used… at all… by anyone. Having an unused basketball hoop is like having a Scrabble board without tiles, or like having Scrabble tiles without the Scrabble tile holder, or like having a basketball net but no ball, only tiles. That said, people should make the effort to do whatever it takes to make their basketball hoops seem used in order to add to their own athletic credibility. I recommend scrubbing off some paint or partially tearing the net. This is “street cred,” as they say in the street. It is also known as “ruining a perfectly good basketball hoop for the purpose of looking more athletic,” as they also say in the street…
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