Hoops

           We hit Lincoln Center with our bags and stuff and were looking around for Cal, and this white guy comes over and asks us were we the Alvin Ailey Dancers. "Yep," Ox said, "but only now we ain't going to be dancing in no alleys no more." The guy looked at Ox like he was crazy. We went over to Ninth Avenue and a school called Haaren. I had heard that Haaren had a pretty tough squad, but i had never been in  the place.We went into the visitors' locker room, and Cal told us to change.The locker room was pretty nice, too. "Hey, coach, where do we put our valuables?" Breeze asked. This guy, Matt Lee, got a strong ox and put it on the table and said that he'd lock it up until we had finished for the day. We didn't work any plays, we didn't work out any strategy, nothing. Just simple stuff like going after loose balls. Cal had us going after loose balls so much that anytime a ball would fall to the ground five guys would want to jump on it.