A FedEx driver saw a boy play basketball with a rusty hoop. What she did next was beyond imagination. Fedex driver Aubrey Robinson was halfway through her deliveries in rural southeastern Indiana early earlier this month when she came across a familiar site an eleven yearold boy shooting baskets at the mobile home park she regularly passes on her route. Robinson had seen the boy in his driveway on multiple occasions, practicing his jump shot. The basketball hoop he used was rusted and bent, but that didn’t stop him, she said. It looked like basketball was his happy place.
He was always so joyful, and sometimes I’d see his parents out there playing a game with him, said Robinson, 38. His enthusiasm for basketball was like none I’d ever seen. The sheer joy on his face made me melt. Robinson is working long days during the beginning of the holiday delivery rush, but on her day off, November 7, she made a decision she was going to buy the boy a proper basketball hoop and a new ball. Read the full story here ▶
