What does Josh's dad do in the first two stanzas of “How I Got My Nickname"? He suggests Josh and his brother JB are like a free
piano. He makes Josh listen to him play a song on the piano. He tells Josh he is going to name their cat Horace Silver. He compares Josh playing basketball to a jazz musician.
Josh and JB's dad. As a young man, Dad was known as "Da Man" and played professional basketball in Europe. At some point in his career, he received a championship ring, which the boys covet in the present. ... After about a week in a coma, Dad wakes up around Christmas.
