Friday Nights at YMCA redefined
Mar 15, 2011
LAST Friday evening, basketball players encountered their fans in an evening of interactive fun and games.
By Denis Dibele
LAST Friday evening, basketball players encountered their fans in an evening of interactive fun and games.
This was not the usual Friday Night Lights you may have heard of — nothing to do with the famed American football series in the US. This was the Friday Night Lights at Wandegeya, YMCA basketball court.
With the main basketball season over, the Friday Night Lights involves basketball pros taking on fans in a series of brief and entertaining games as part of a greater goal to encourage skills transfer, sharing as well as interaction.
There was the hip-hop music to dance to and young and beautiful ladies dressed fashionably, as if headed straight to a night club. These added glamour to the event.
The ladies cheered the teams made up of tall and sturdy basketball players as well as their fans. Entry was free for the ladies while the men parted with sh3,000.
Teams won token prizes of cash and beer. The top prize was sh750,000 for the fan that could successfully make a centre shot and score.
This was quite a challenge for those that made an effort to make a winning shot from the centre of the court. At the end, no one made it.
Next week, the prize goes higher by 250,000 to become 1,000,000 for a fan who can make a winning shot.
While fans, especially the ladies, could not get enough of Klear Kut rapper, The Mith’s hip-hop performance, they may have found Rabadaba more entertaining.
He teased them with his dances and reached out to them to sing along with him.
If one did not understand the rules of the game, they at least got the cue when to cheer the best teams.
With many young people looking out for where to ‘happen’ on a Friday evening, they seemed to have found a new companion in Friday Night Lights.
LAST Friday evening, basketball players encountered their fans in an evening of interactive fun and games.
This was not the usual Friday Night Lights you may have heard of — nothing to do with the famed American football series in the US. This was the Friday Night Lights at Wandegeya, YMCA basketball court.
With the main basketball season over, the Friday Night Lights involves basketball pros taking on fans in a series of brief and entertaining games as part of a greater goal to encourage skills transfer, sharing as well as interaction.
There was the hip-hop music to dance to and young and beautiful ladies dressed fashionably, as if headed straight to a night club. These added glamour to the event.
The ladies cheered the teams made up of tall and sturdy basketball players as well as their fans. Entry was free for the ladies while the men parted with sh3,000.
Teams won token prizes of cash and beer. The top prize was sh750,000 for the fan that could successfully make a centre shot and score.
This was quite a challenge for those that made an effort to make a winning shot from the centre of the court. At the end, no one made it.
Next week, the prize goes higher by 250,000 to become 1,000,000 for a fan who can make a winning shot.
While fans, especially the ladies, could not get enough of Klear Kut rapper, The Mith’s hip-hop performance, they may have found Rabadaba more entertaining.
He teased them with his dances and reached out to them to sing along with him.
If one did not understand the rules of the game, they at least got the cue when to cheer the best teams.
With many young people looking out for where to ‘happen’ on a Friday evening, they seemed to have found a new companion in Friday Night Lights.