The sun was shining brightly on Saturday in Upstate New York, a perfect day for some basketball in the park if a deadly pandemic wasn’t ripping across the globe. Seven friends in Poughkeepsie, about 80 miles north of Manhattan, had a solution, though.
They put on cover-alls, face masks, gloves and shoe coverings, and hit their local park for some 3-on-3 action.
“Since the NBA and NCAA seasons aren’t going on,” one of the players, 25-year-old Tre Mayo, told the Poughkeepsie Journal, “we just really missed basketball.”
Elsewhere on Saturday, a video went viral of players shooting hoops on California’s Venice Beach, amid a stay at home order issued by the state’s governor.