My big brother and I are separated by 11 years (and 3 sisters). He played for the local HS team so I've been going to basketball games since I was a little kid.
I also watched my twin sisters play that dreadful 6-player per team rover crap. By the time my closest sister played, general men's rules had been adopted.
She also played for Holyoke College.
I played HS ball and dated a player on the girls team. This was in the early 70s.
After HS I wrote a sports column for the local weekly and covered the boy's basketball team, taking /developing game pics.
Maybe a few years afterward, the school was one of the first (maybe the first, I can't remember) in the state to hire a female AD, who was also the girls basketball and softball coach. I was proud to do that interview.
So, girls/womens basketball has been in my life a long time, too.
From the mid-60s to the mid-70s the family was a big fan of Fairfield Univ. men's basketball. I had the chance to see some great players like Providence's Jimmy Walker (who led the nation in scoring in 1967), Marvin Barnes and Ernie DiGregorio as well as St. Bonaventure's Bob Lanier and Niagra's Calvin Murphy, among others.
I was an NBA fan up until the 90s. Now I probably don't watch more than 10 mins/season.
WCB is my main basketball interest although I still like and watch MCBB.
On a sidenote, the local HS girls team is the defending class state champs and has been to the last 2 finals.
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