shot over backboard

[BillyMac]

Many years ago the Boston Celtics used to play a few "home" games each year at the Hartford, CT Civic Center. One of his most famous, of his many famous shots, was taken at the Hartford Civic Center. While hustling to save a ball from going out of bounds, he jumped over the end line, turned, and shot the ball, over the backboard from back to front, which hit nothing but net. I believe that this is now illegal in the NBA. I've seen this shot replayed many times. Most people think it was taken at Boston Garden. It wasn't.

Last night, at my girls varsity game, during one of the time outs, they played "Brass Bonanza", the theme song of the Hartford Whalers. It made me sad. Maybe someday, besides the WNBA Connecticut Sun, we'll have a major league team in Connecticut. We almost lost our PGA tournament, until a sponser dropped out of another tournament and one of our big insurance companies came to the rescue and sponsered our Greater Hartford golf tournament. We also have a major mens and womens tennis tournament in New Haven every summer.