
The Shot
“How did you do that Daddy?!” yelled my sons after I made yet another shot off of my head from the basketball spinning trickery. “I’m going to film you to show Mommy”, my oldest boy said, picking up my iPhone. So I kept shooting and mugging for the camera. You know, the normal shots: Spin ball, bounce off head, into the basket Spin ball on multiple fingers, bank shot from the side Spin ball, turn around jumper from half-court the usual… From the reactions of my 12 and 13 year olds this was not normal. And I’d forgotten how fun it was, as well as how hard I’d worked on this when I was young. It has been way too long since I showed anyone these old basketball tricks, but it was what I was known for in high school. I worked on them when I was 15-17 years old and mostly did them to freak people out, since I got to the point where I could make them about half of the time. I could beat anyone at H-O-R-S-E if it were a matter of most creative shots. What was really neat to me was to see the




