Back in high school, Buck Hopper was invited to an exclusive basketball summer camp in Boston. There he met Cheeto Wolfote, another young baller from the city's Southside. Both young athletes dazzled the camp, stunning the instructors with their incredible athleticism and leadership at point. Through the summer, B-Hop and Cheetopup competed viciously to prove themselves the best at the camp, going at each other with everything they had and playing in rim-rocking games that soon packed the camp's humble gymnasium. By summer's end, no one could say who was the best, and Hopper returned to California frustrated at having to share the top spot with the scruffy canine who pronounced his name funny.

Years later, Hopper was drafted by the Thrust and entered the FBA. Near the end of the same draft, the Plymouth Taproots quietly picked up Cheeto while the papers crowed about their first round pick. Later that season, the Thrust played a road game in Plymouth, and Hopper got a surprise in the second quarter when a familiar face came off the bench...

"I'm back, B-Hahp."

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A simply WONDERFUL drawing from the endlessly talented  spunky! This picture was commissioned by the wonderful  lilifox whose  babsbunny character is immortalized in the FBA logo. She's also the creator of the fantastic  cheeto character, who is still B-Hop's biggest rival-- and his best friend.