They have a front lawn, a back lawn, a driveway basketball hoop, and a garage with a scythe hanging on the wall.
That's it--we've seen everything except the shrine: the basketball hoop in Bradley's backyard, where young Bill worked on his shots until all hours.
Today, a basketball hoop remains in Babylon, while concertina wire left behind by the military is used to prevent visitors from climbing over a 2, 500-year-old lion statue -- an ancient symbol of the city.
He added a basketball hoop to the end of the driveway and extended the roof over the Jacuzzi, which comfortably fit members of the Memphis Mafia the friends and hangers-on who surrounded him to protect himself from the increasingly intrusive paparazzi.
"I always tell people I can stuff a basketball into a hoop, but I also have a mind, " he said.
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He knew their sisters, who played rotation basketball at the hoop past left center field. (Well, he knew the sisters by sight: Joe never said five words in a row to anybody's sister.) He knew all their houses, and who slept where.
Positive visualization is also used in sports where athletes envision successful outcomes: the racer crossing the finish line, the basketball going through the hoop, or the tennis ball landing in the perfect spot across the net.
We used to play basketball on a 6 foot hoop and I would block all his shots so he had to develop a jump shot and handle.
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Basketball arguably might be just as good a game if the hoop were 11 feet or nine feet above the ground, instead of 10 feet, but 10 feet over the years has spawned a specific, wonderfully entertaining style of play.
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