In Reply to: My collection of old basketball magazines posted by Dr.Bruin on September 23, 2024 at 01:52:14
eight (first game against another school), but didn't really become aware of the bigger basketball world until around the age of 12 or so. That's probably around the time I started buying basketball magazines (early sixties).
I remember quite clearly a black and white game photo in Street and Smith of Bon Bonham of Cincinnati taking a jump shot along the base. I remember looking at that photo a lot and at his form, the height of his jump, and how he was holding the ball and trying to emulate it all (I tried to find that photo on Goggle, but it didn't come up). That had to be somewhere around 1962 or '63. I used to pore over those magazines until they were well worn and dog-eared. That's about the time I started taking basketball seriously.