GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — The old backboard and pole stand in the same place, although years of heavy snow and frigid upstate weather have battered the small backyard court where dreams were played out. The net is gone, the rim is old and rusted, but this area at 26 Ogden Street is hallowed ground.
Jimmer Fredette, the former BYU sensation who currently is with the Knicks, grew up there. The modest blue colonial served as an indoor court, where his father shouted to stop dribbling in the house and his mother said, “Let him dribble.” The constant noise of a constant bouncing ball echoed so loudly that his father was forced to put in a hardwood floor in the basement.