UPDATE 2::: BREAKING-IN vs BROKEN-IN SPALDING INDOOR LEATHER NBA GAME BALL COMPARISON

going back & forth with some of you guys who have been having some of the same issues ive been trying to figure out about breaking in a spalding basketball inspired me to make these videos. you can check out the progress of my other game ball (orange) in some of the other videos ive uploaded. i bought this other (brown) game ball used off of ebay (for much cheaper than a new game ball). here is the info that i got from the seller: "it was used in a private gym league for one season which spans 12 weeks. each game is 40 minutes long. 4 games a week. hope this helps." -ebay seller this means it was broken-in during the course of 1920 minutes, or 32 hours, of gametime! i am sure that this excludes shooting around during warm-ups & time at the free throw line. anyways, use that as some kind of measure. it looks & feels great. comment on how the progress of your game ball is going & what it was like when you got it brand new... to make matters more confusing, i got a message from a youtube user who sent me some information that they knew about NBA game balls. this message refers to my previous breaking-in video, so the first paragraph is about that ball (not my new one in this video above). anyways, here is a portion of that message: "I'm not sure if you know about this already, but I have noticed that there are 2 different types of leather game balls. There is one like yours (and like my original broken in game ball) where the writing isn't imprinted very deep and fades ...
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