I’ve been slippin’ on my writing the past few days, but with good reason. For the past week, my evenings have been preoccupied with the rim you see in the above picture.
Me & the three year old Lil Homie usually get in each day & ball til he falls. Two practices — one @ six before dinner, the other @ 8 right before his bedtime. Sure he’s not that developed & only makes two out of fifty shots. He’s fuckin three. He’s exhilarated & playing for the imagined love of the game after watching an episode of Go Diego Go. Even with his adolescent attention span & low shooting percentage, he’s still good enough to be a Knick.
I, however, play with him for the camaraderie, family time…and to relive my youth spent ballin’ on a hoop just like this one, dreaming that I was like Dominique & Sir Charles. I know I wasn’t the only one who used to straight break sweats, trying to do 360° dunks, throwing alley oops to myself off the wall, dunking…and then crashing into the wall.
Yeah, my mom’s wasn’t vibing with that shit.
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I had some ill games w/ friends on them Nerf wall goals back when i was like 11.
Friend of mine had a huge living room w/ high ceilings so we’d push the furniture out the way and play 3v3. One time my friend threw an alley-oop to me and i yammed the hell out of this one cat. And I’m stuntin like VC when he dunked on that french dude. But like everyone else is standing there silent. I look down and dude i yammed on has his elbow IN THE WALL. he pulls it out and theres a huge hole like 6 inches wide.
We had to come out of pocket for that shit and my friends mom banned Nerf games for the next 4 months.
That shit was hella fun though.
Even with his adolescent attention span & low shooting percentage, he’s still good enough to be a Knick
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Do the jabs ever stop!!! lol
But real spit, I’m hella jealous lol.
I’ve seen your output decline slightly this past week, but I figured it was better spent putting in QT wit the fam. But this? B-Balling with Junior on the Nerf hoop? I have a little girl who I’m totally in luv with (in the way a father loves his daughter, for all you freaks out there lol), but I’d love to have a mini-Amp to school on the fundamentals lol.
He’s exhilarated & playing for the imagined love of the game
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But this is just the stage to nurture that “imagined love” so when he’s older & more skilled (depending on Gotty’s coaching lol) that love will be a genuine thing…and something he shares with his Pops.
Makes a nigga feel all warm & fuzzy inside lol.
Good shit, Gotty. Not only does he play the “Blogfather” on the internet, but it sounds like he’s a pretty good father in real life lol.
Props.
Man, I got nephews and we always play on these hoops…however, they gets NO POINTS! I’m the bully that stands by the goal like “shoot. Go for it. you can do it.”
*BLOCK*
“No Soup for you!!!!!”
truth be told, Nerf bball is a helluva lot easier than the nightly two-a-days of tackle football drills he wants to do lol. He was wearing out my body & the necks of many a white t b/c he’s got a mean lil move he does where he grabs me by the collar once we lock up lol.
Yeah, it’s real over here homie.
Damn, memories…..
I was THE Nerf hoop slam dunk champion 9 straight years….
Had a mean accuracy from 3-point range….
from my bedroom door to the radiator….. raindrops…
I took my simulated juco game to the crate hoop league where a promising career abruptly ended after both forearms swole up to the size of ham hocks while doing tomahawk dunks to impress the future groupies as they drank their pina colada quarter waters on the sideline….
from my bedroom door to the radiator….. raindrops…
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Off the TV, off the radio, off the ceiling fan….nothing but net lol.
Damn, Deron’s d-ing up Steve Blake so hard he’s talking to himself.
are you kidding me, gotty? me and my brother used to have wars on that back in the day. I mean, dents and holes in the door afterwards. trip though, after we would break it, we would bend out a coat hanger and squeeze it up in there and shoot with balled up socks. Man, you takin a nia back with that one. LOL.
Shit, I was too broke growing up to buy one of those little b-ball nets, so my homies and I built our own in shop class. Our net was dope: real wooden backboard, nice steel hoop, plus we made a little mesh too. We hung that shit up in our project hallway and played like crazy!!! People used to get upset when they tried to open up the hallway door and got dunked on, or got boinked on the head from a missed shot. Ahhh, the precious days of middle school. Priceless!!!
ay, naw…the best shit was catching someone standing under the net. Then someone would charge up and dunk while they were standing there and be like “blaowww!!! facial!!!”
Shit, I was too broke growing up to buy one of those little b-ball nets, so my homies and I built our own in shop class.
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I think we just found the first competitor in the “we were so broke” competition hehe. Dude those joints were $10 back in the day. You couldn’t have been that broke if you were old enough to be in a shop class lol.
Real talk, it took several days to put that bullshit together. It ain’t like the old one that was already bent, bracketed & ready to go over the door. There was assembly required that was not explained by the 3 graphics on the back of the box. I was PISSED puttin this bs together
damn gotty it took you 3 days to put together a nerf hoop? fool you need to go to flea’s shop class
and flea stop frontin, there ain’t no projects in Canada…
wow. i bought a new one of them from the store just yesterday and been hoopin ever since.
i still do the 360`s . and what?
whats good mack
my bad *Wanda
The Trackmasters don’t fuck with that sports shit on any level. We was in BAND. Now we in GREEN. Did you ever think…
SMH, how u gonna take a shot at my Knicks?
@ gotty…man, my shit was just balling all of the socks in the crib…mom’s, dad’s, mine, and my brothers….and opening up my top drawer on the dresser…and raining j’s from the dining room.
shit, u couldn’t tell me motherfucker j wasn’t the shit. unless you were my older brother who one day shook my world and basically told my j had no spin, was more of a push, and basically told me that instead of working on my basketball form, i was working on throwing the post route to an imaginary receiver.
fuck him…i still was dope.
Good looks, Sherm
@ Sherm: No projects? Oh really??? Have you ever heard of REGENT PARK!!! It was one of the first ones ever built; then again have you ever BEEN to Toronto??? Come up here and I’ll show you our hoods my dude. They may not measure up to your blocks in the US, but they’re Government owned and house the “low-income” earners of the city. Frontin’ my ass, 500K tells 100% truth.
@: Gotty: I don’t remember those nets being $10 (or looking as basic as the one on your door) my ninja. In any case I was only 13 so I wasn’t old enough to work, which left me the options of either stealing one or making one. I chose the latter for the net, stole everything else!!! lol!!!
The nerf hoops were banned in my house, so i had to ball up socks and shoot them in the clothes hamper. I had a mean j though!
We had a high ceiling in our apartment, so i actually got an arc on my J. Skipped a lot of homework playing horse with the homies after school.
G I’m staring at my Koosh goal right now hanging off the bedroom door.
It’s funny you should post this cause me and the housemates had a bow throwing wall crashing festival on this thing yesterday.
indeed ©Omar
3 days to put up a NERF hoop = We know who wears the pants in that household
Elbowing 3 yr old in the forehead and dunking while screaming NO BLOOD NO FOUL!!!= You though Joe Jackson was bad.
Spending time with your seed= Priceless
Playing Be a father to your child while reading the post = I got JOINTS on my MP3 player!!
lol
Nice post Gotty, got me all sentimental and shit…ALMOST made me be like “damn, it would be kinda ill to be a daddy” than I clicked on the other tab I have open on Internet Explorer and realized the trips I’m booking to New Orleans in Feb, ATL in march, and Puerto Rico in April would not be nearly as easy to do on a whim if I was bound to a child. So I’ll pass for now LOL.
I got one of those hoops in my office. Me and the other dudes in the office be going hard on each other on that LOL…it’s ruthless, playing no broken limb, no foul.
I’ma go smoke a cig and reminisce for a while, thanks Gotty.
that’s crazy you wrote a piece about nerf ball lol.. i used to play non-stop when i was a kid, especially during winter.. my mom used to complain, sayin i was gonna break the door down.. aww memories