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Nothing But Nets
He shoots. He scores. It's good for two! It may sound like a typical basketball game, but this game of hoops is different. For starters, Bankshot Basketball was created by a rabbi, Reeve Robert Brenner of Rockville, Maryland. And a typical Bankshot court has 19 nets, each set against a colorful backboard that's been angled, curved, or built in some other wacky way. Players proceed through the course, attempting to make as many baskets as they can.
"Everybody- people of all abilities including wheelchair athletes- can all compete," says Brenner, who designed the game in 1981 after a cousin of his was confined to a wheelchair. Twenty years later, Brenner's pursuit for accessible games continues. Last year, he introduced Bankshot Tennis and the Bankshot Tri-Sport System- all while keeping his day job as a chaplain at the National Institutes of Health and spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Chesed in Bethesda, Maryland.
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