Like hearing that net sound when you make a basket and stuff, it just makes the whole experience a lot nicer.

My name's Chevy Fowler, and I'm obsessed with basketball.

There's a lot of different rims for sure.

You got the double rim, the thick single rims, and then the thinner single rims that are more like, the portable hoops kind of thing that you can adjust the back.

Childhood was like, so I grew up above a bar and restaurant in Haines.

So my little brother and I kind of grew up working in that restaurant since we were like nine waiting tables and, helping my dad cook a big majority of our life.

So.

And living in Haines, it's kind of a really small community with, I think I graduated with like 18 people in my class.

I think like most places in Alaska, basketball is pretty big there.

that kind of whole community shows up to the high school basketball games.

grew up loving basketball.

Wasn't that good playing in high school, but I loved playing.

I loved the sense of community That kind of basketball brought it.

See, find another place, I’ve hopped fences before to try to fix them.

But we could go to take a look.

Maybe Yeah, we'll go up.

Well, if there is like another way to get in there, but it doesn't really look lik.. yeah, Look at that.

Yeah.

The hoops I played on Haines were always well-maintained and I felt like that was a big privilege and be able to play on hoops that had good equipment.

Moving up to Anchorage.

I just kind of drove, drove around a bit.

I just noticed some hoops here and there that needed some love and needed some care.

And I still saw people playing on tho.. and I thought it'd be really cool to help fix those hoops up so they have some good equipment to play on These are interesting courts.

There's a lot of these in Anchorage where it's like a half hockey rink.

half basketball courts.

Like more of a hockey rink than basketball court couple of my followers just DM me on Instagram and be like, Hey, I saw this hoop at blah, blah, blah, at this high school or something.

And it's in some rough shape and I'.. Like, I'll go do it.

So go run, check it out, make sure it's something I can do, or if I have the equipment to go do.

And then if I don't, I'll run home real quick, come back.

And then I got my my ladder set up.

most nets, I have fit most rims, but there's some that have the little hooks that catch the net on the rim and some of the times those are broken.

So it's kind of hard to make zip tie for temporary something and, think some of the best feedback I've done was I did a hoop late last summer I went and fixed it, and then I was putting my ladder and stuff back on my car and this group of kids were like, had basketballs are like going ..

I just fixed And one kid point out and he's like, There’s a new net!

And I saw I was like crowd of kids.

I go play on this new hoop.

And I was like, It's very special to me.

That was really cool.

So at that point I was like,.. project.

I'm doing when I put up new nets or something, I have a little QR code I put on the net.

I'm still figuring that out because you kind of got to reach up and scan it.

but that kind of leads people to see, this net was like provided by this account and I can follow it.

If I see another net or another hoop that needs help, then they can shout me out and I'll go, I'll go fix it.

if the court's pretty dirty, I'll sweep it too, and just kind of give it a good, nice touch at the end and shoot a couple hoops on it.

Oh yeah.

I know I'm thankful to be part of this community an..

I think it's a very, very special thing to be a part of.

I urge anyone who's in love with basketball as much as I am to keep that passion fire with you and take a look at your neighborhood hoop.

If you need some love, give it some love or give me a call and or DM me on Instagram and I'll be happy to help