Pickup Basketball Hooper Hats

Pickup basketball is a culture with its own law, and these hats wear it. The rules are near-universal: games to 11, ones and twos, fouls called yourself by saying ball, and winners stay on the court. I GOT NEXT is the call that claims the next game, and WINNERS STAY ON is the rule everyone agrees about. NO BLOOD NO FOUL and BALL DON'T LIE come straight from the court's vocabulary, the second being what the defense says on a disputed call. The group is old as well as loud: the Chelsea YMCA run has played Tuesday and Thursday mornings since 1972 with ages from the twenties to the eighties, and a small-town r/Basketball group plays 5:30 to 6:30 AM, which is where 6 AM HOOPER comes from. OLD MAN GAME STILL WORKS, I STILL CAN'T GO LEFT and MY WHOLE ROTATION IS ADVIL are the honest confessions of anyone who plays sore, one writer calling reading the floor the apotheosis of dad ball. SORRY I WAS HOOPING is the excuse for being late, and the line already sells on a licensed hitch hat. PICKUP BASKETBALL and HOOPER keep it plain. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. I GOT NEXT and SORRY I WAS HOOPING each come in two colorways.