After years of pounding my body driving to the basket, sliding into bases and absorbing flag football collisions, I didn’t mind saying I’d lost a step and no longer featured all the bumps and bruises. Then I found a place for my tender knees and widening sweatpants when a friend approached me with this Pickleball come-on: “The court is much smaller, the ball is slower, we play in an air-conditioned gym, you never break a sweat, it’s great!”
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