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Youth basketball: A modest proposal

By Glenn Nelson
HoopGurlz

Friday, September 25, 2009

To the uninitiated masses, the term "youth basketball" tends to conjure images of wobbly but gleeful children chasing each other on a court with a steel pole, wooden backboard and bent rim with a chain-link net. To some it is honor and school colors, bands and cheerleaders. To others still, it is packs of teens being carted around the country in search of scholarships and glory. At the start, youth basketball for me was a way to give back to a sport that was the foundation of my professional ...

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