Who's got game?

No one ... for awhile

Margate's Jerome Avenue courts are one of Atlantic County's basketball hotspots, but it will be awhile before anyone shoots any more hoops on the courts. Workers cut down the four baskets Friday as part of an ongoing project to renovate the city's whole complex of courts, fields and playgrounds fronting on Jerome Avenue.

The contractors from Highway Safety Systems also started tearing up the courts, which needed to be replaced because they were badly cracked and torn. And they pulled out the bases of the metal poles that used to hold up the old-fashioned metal backboards and baskets.

No one knows exactly when outdoor basketball will be back in business because to put down the new paving, the contractors need the weather to cooperate, City Commissioner Dan Campbell says. Temperatures have to be consistently in the range of 50 to 60 degrees,
including at night, to do the repaving right, he explained.