Baller commuter polishes basketball skills during massive Silicon Valley traffic jam

No days off.
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Sam Laird
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Highway 101 runs south from San Francisco, through Silicon Valley to San Jose, crowning it perhaps the Bay Area's most congested stretch of road come commute time.

A fire made the post-work rush hour even more hellish than usual Thursday afternoon -- but one big baller maximized the down time to work on his hoops skills.

Here's a look, via NBC Bay Area.


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And that, ladies and gentleman, is why any true hooper always keeps a basketball in their trunk.

Happy weekend and, as always: Ball is life.

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Sam Laird

Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.

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