Did nikkas really hoop for "Boonks" back in the day?

[Malta]

I'm not in my late-20s just yet

You will be

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

You're talking about the game taps. I think @smitty22 was referring to taps as a part of 33 (or 21 or whatever number you went to). If someone missed and you tapped in their shot (jump off the ground and put it back in before landing back on the ground) then they go back to zero. Three taps and you're out.

I played this shyt some where. Can't recall what city or state though

 

[boskey]

"Gimmie mines" does that ring a bell?

*Grabs @OneManGang's neck and yanks hand across it like he's starting a lawnmower*

Yooo

We said "Gimme that neck"

*notices a trend*

@mastermind @L&HH

 

[Kaypain]

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

We played Suicide where you threw a handball off a wall and you had to catch it with one hand. If you dropped it you had to run to the wall before someone else picked up the handball and threw it at you. If you got hit three times, booties up with a handball.

This is the version we played on my block.I only played once when I was like 9 yrs old.It was with a bunch of high school aged dudes, tho.


Joke was on me.Got brutalized

 

[Smoking With Cigarettes]

I never heard od this shyt. Did nikkas really play for that shyt. Wtf are boonks? Sounds like some gay shyt. Or was that just shyt they just made up for the movie?






Told that nikka Kyle to bend his ass over after he ethered him one on one

I wanna hear from all the old heads of this is what nikkas played for back in the day?

Im not an old head but as a kid growing up in the islands we had a similar concept but called roots, but we did it differently. Instead of betting money on shyt we'd bet roots. Like "yo I bet you 2 roots I can get that girl to kiss me" and if she dont kiss you you're getting two swift kicks to the ass. Looking back cant believe I did that foolishness but I got beat so much with the belt as a kid I had a tolerance

 

[No Homo]

Must be some shyt then.

Utah, King of the court, Uptown, 1 on 1....thats mostly what we was on. Throwing shyt at nikkas asses? Nah I missed that one. @tremonthustler1 I remember suicide. But that was just beaming nikkas with a handball.

Utah is some real Brooklyn shyt..no one outside the borough knew it when i would travel or meet people from uptown or whever..

I remember playing games with damn near 15 or more people

 

[Columbo]

We played for boonks in New haven and Hartford when i was a kid, back then if you were a kid the older nikkas bully you. It didnt hurt getting the ball thrown at you, it was more the embarrassment

Fakkits talkin about us being suspect for playing that, Nowadays nikkas be shaking hands and helping eachother up. You pus$ys even be calling fouls and shyt, its a gentlemans game now

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

We played Suicide where you threw a handball off a wall and you had to catch it with one hand. If you dropped it you had to run to the wall before someone else picked up the handball and threw it at you. If you got hit three times, booties up with a handball.

We had this in CT too. Played with a tennis or racquetball usually

 

[BigE214]

We played Horse, 25 and knockout. Outside of that, we wasn't with no extra shyt.

And the way we played knock out was however many people line up and the shot goes up from the top of the key. If you missed then you had to make another shot (typically a layup) before the person behinds you made it. Otherwise you'd get hit in your chin and usually knocked out.

 

[OneManGang]

Utah is some real Brooklyn shyt..no one outside the borough knew it when i would travel or meet people from uptown or whever..

I remember playing games with damn near 15 or more people

I miss those days

Played ball for the first time in a while last week and couldn’t do shyt right. Got my Roberson on with D and intangibles

 

[Won Won]

Tips

You're talking about the game taps. I think @smitty22 was referring to taps as a part of 33 (or 21 or whatever number you went to). If someone missed and you tapped in their shot (jump off the ground and put it back in before landing back on the ground) then they go back to zero. Three taps and you're out.

We called that Tips or Tip-Out

We played Suicide where you threw a handball off a wall and you had to catch it with one hand. If you dropped it you had to run to the wall before someone else picked up the handball and threw it at you. If you got hit three times, booties up with a handball.

This was called wallball here

We called that Red-Ass

There was also a version where we had to throw the ball higher than an 8' ledge or so, and if someone caught it, you had to run and touch the wall before they threw it and hit the wall. If the ball made it first, you lined up to get the ball thrown at your ass.
If you hit the ledge straight on, it would pop the ball up in the air We called those Ledgies

 

[invincible1914]

No disrepect to the OP, but that shyt literally reads like they were playing Dikk up the Booty.

 

[Skip b]

Never called it boonks but we did play a game called Butt On The Pole

Basically 33 and the loser gets the ball thrown at his ass.

Only played it a couple times

Things were different back then so it was ok.

We used to play Boonks, but...Butt on a pole

 

[Skip b]

@Boesky ain't a New Yorker, so I think it wasn't just local. Only games I played growing up that seemed strictly NYC were skellzies, stoop ball, and handball. I mean, I know handball is played elsewhere, I just never saw it played in parks so frequently by so many people anywhere other than NYC. Ricans and Jews were always out at the parks battling.

Missing Skelly and Handball as a grown ass nikka, blue tops still in my dresser and and keys still have candle wax on them