Image from Hoopgurlz.com| Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir reflects on her new scoring record |
Basketball was invented here 100 years before Rebecca Lobo set the state's high-school scoring record for girls or boys, and it's doubtful that James Naismith could have envisioned such an evolutionary leap for his creation. Yet, here we are, 18 years later, in the embryonic days of the Yes-We-Can era, after all, and it's still difficult to imagine a media posse in a hot and packed gym, recording every precious move by a teenaged American girl with a Muslim name who plays basketball with head and limbs covered in accordance with the customs of her religious beliefs.
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