So at what age did any of you fellas got involve playin basketball for the first time or start watchin basketball??
I use to remember early in the 90s in australia they had free to air nba coverage and also the domestic league, even though i didnt know wtf i was watchin but atm they had bulls n blazers finals on tv. So I decided to buy a hoops magazine for no reason....and it came with a ewing poster on it, bought myself a pair of new shoes which were ewings btw, wanted to buy the reebok pumps just for the pumps hahaha
but out of my price range and didnt know where to get them.
Then the local playground in the area was pulled down and reconstructed for a few months, only playground left was the basketball courts at primary school, it was in grade 3 or at the age or 8-9 i picked up a basketball and started with the sport during lunch break and after school. A few months after the old playground was turned into a state of the art outside bball court better then rucker park courts IMO, I try and get a picture of the courts and show you guyz. And started collecting NBA cards too and played for sum local team for a few games b4 i decided to pull a quits cause of team was stacked with alot of ball hogs.
I started organized team basketball as soon as it was available, in 4th grade (11 years old), just like organized team football.
But at that point, I had already been playing Little League baseball since age 7 (and not this feminized T-Ball , but real hardball).
After grade 9, I stopped HS baseball and football to concenrate on basketball.
Ive been playing basketball since I was 6 yrs old. I am 28 now and still hit the courts. I was In organized basketball leagues until I hit high school then just played recreational and tournaments since then.
When I was 8 yrs. old.
Do you mean just men when you say "fellas" or do you wish to know about our ladies in here also?
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Holy crap...I was 9 years old when I was in the 4th grade.
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I started watching basketball since the age of 10. I started playing at the age of 11. I have been playing since. I am 26 now and going on 27. I don't have that first step like I use to, but I still have my shot from the outside. I think I ruined my body with so many sports at a young age. I started T-Ball at the age of five and played until I was 14. I played football for four years. My left knee tends to hurt from time to time. My lower back is always hurting. Oh well. I wouldn't change a thing. I love to play sports.
ive been playing since elemetary school but not seriously, i play like every day now and ive been watching basketball since like 94 when i was 8
Around 8 or 9. I only played a little in high school and then just for fun.
About 9, in the eighties. I used to play a lot. My heroes were Larry Bird in the NBA, and Miguel Cortijo in the local league. I guess because both Ferro and Celtics jerseys are green and white! After the Jordan era I stopped caring about basketball, don't know why. Manu's performance en 2003, bring me back to bball.
"I was 9 years old when I was in the 4th grade."
You peaked too soon, been downhill ever since.
Most kids are 6/7 in first grade, 9/10 in 4th grade. My birthday was just before the cutoff date so I lost a grade year. Not uncommon, happens to 1/12 of all kids.
I played basketball on the girls team at my junior high. Of course I never grew taller than 5'6.
I ended up skipping out of basketball to train for the pummel horse (only chick), rope climbing, and sit up compe ion at Hershey Track & Field.
I never really go into then NBA untill 5 years ago. But I've always been a fan of college basketball. Specificaly the UCONN Huskies, esp. the women's team. I LOVED Rebecca Lobo.. she was a real hometown hero.
Were you held back going into first grade until you were 8 then (if you were 11 in the 4th grade) or did you repeat a grade (which also happens quite often with kids)?
Last edited by Solid D; 07-12-2005 at 10:51 AM.
Started hoopin at the age of 4 on those little nerf goals and started playing on teams when I was 6. Still playing organized ball at the age of 21, and hoping to continue it overseas if the oppurtunity arrises.
Never played. My poor father - he coached nearly every sport under the sun (but we moved to Texas so he could coach high school football), and his daughter (me) turns out to be a total butterfingers who ducks when you throw a ball at her and his son decides to be a yell leader and run track instead of playing football and basketball.
But I got into following basketball in the 5th grade when George Gervin came to talk to our class about not doing drugs. I had no idea who the he was (oh I so regret not getting his autograph) but I got interested in the Spurs. I followed them until high school when I got interested enough to watch games in the WCF in 95. Then I watched a few games here and there and always caught the score from the news. And then I went to college in Houston, was surrounded by Rockets fans and quickly realized how much I loved and missed my Spurs. I followed everything via internet - the game in which we clinched HCA throughout the playoffs in 99 was me in front of the computer refreshing the box score every two minutes, lol.
Been die hard ever since. Didn't miss a single game of the playoffs that year onward and I watch every game I can without NBATV.
yes, held back for year from 1st grade. Had to be 6 in Sep to start, but I was 6 in Oct. so had to wait a year, meaning I was one month short of 7 when starting 1st grade, so almost, oops, 10 when I started 4th. I was 19 at HS graduation.
I was always bigger than everybody in my grade, so the extra year older had an advantage in school sports.
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Ah, that makes sense. I guess you were the "most dominant big man" during Recess.
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I was 8 when I started compe ively.
Last edited by Ed Helicopter Jones; 07-12-2005 at 03:00 PM.
Saw Magic vs. The Glide on tv when I was 12 and starting playing ball myself when I was 13 and The Admiral became my idol.
Started following basketball in the mid 80's, height of the Lakers-Celtics rivalry. I remember when the Spurs drafted D-Rob. Don't remember following the Spurs much before D-Rob, truthfully, but after that I was hooked on the Spurs forever. Something changed in San Antonio when D-Rob came to town, and I'm not sure why or how, because certainly Gervin was no less the talent. But I don't remember it being quite the hype.
Didn't play basketball till college, when I took pick up basketball for my PE credit. Play whenever I get the chance now.
FYI, I'm not a "fella" - I'm a chick.
I was 8 in 4th grade
I lived in Kenya, so I had to have been 5 or 6.
I was never a coordinated child and lacked the killer instinct needed to excel at sports.
I grew up watching the Boston Celtics and the Spurs- my dad's two favorite teams respectively.
My first basketball memory: I bet my dad on who would win a college basketball game. I said that Temple would beat the Duke blue devils... because God likes church and not devils. I was 11 or 12.
I sat with dad and watched the entire game. I won the bet and discovered that I liked basketball.
From then on, I started following the Spurs- saw a few games and always checked the standings in the paper.
I became really interested when the Spurs drafted Tim Dunca. At first I just watched to see what all the hype was about. I fell in love with Timmy ( my first celebrity crush) and just had to watch him all the time. That is how I learned about the game.
I saw all of the 99 play off run but missed 2000 cause I was in Europe when the Spurs played. Then life got crazy and I only was able to watch sporadically up until
the 2003 season. But I haven't missed more than five games since then.
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