I've been bad for years. In grammar school, I actually went the wrong way on the court and took a shot at the wrong basket. In high school, I was the sixth man on a five-man team. If any of the starters had gone down, they would have forfeited the game rather than put me in. I'm now nearly 35 years old and play with a group of over-40 lawyers on Thursday nights.
Basketball is the ultimate hacker sport.
I can rebound and I can score occasionally, but I am basically a body in the lane, the preferred hacker position. It is possible to have a career in the hacking game. The two real athletes who play with us have injuries that are whispered about. Something's wrong with their Achilles tendon, or their eye sockets or their calf muscles-something serious, we're not quite sure what. A hacker can get away with the most outrageous bonehead plays merely because he is conforming to expectations.