Got Hops?

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

GOT HOPS--804 Google hits, 99 Google Groups hits
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I was watching the ESPN basketball draft preview last night. (The NBA draft  
is on ESPN tonight.) It was said that Syracuse's Hakim Warrick, a possible NJ  
Nets selection, "got hops."
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Maybe he just doesn't drink milk?
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How old is "hops"="jumping ability"? OED? HDAS?
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
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_GILL possible trades..._ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sports.basketball.nba.seattle-sonics/browse_thread/thread/7a8e23e898f0651c/b88f5e5f02fbe3
b1?q="got+hops"&rnum=85&hl=en#b88f5e5f02fbe3b1)  
... First  off, Miner is not all that great of a guard. He's got hops, but  
he's poor
off the dribble and has a miserable shot outside of 20 ft.  ...   
_alt.sports.basketball.nba.seattle-sonics_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sports.basketball.nba.seattle-sonics?hl=en)  - Jan 20  1995, 8:51 pm by 
Kurtis Araki - 3 messages - 3 authors 
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COMPLETELY OT
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/nyregion/metrocampaigns/28manhattan.html?hp
&ex=1120017600&en=e8b8dd35276add5c&ei=5059&partner=AOL_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/nyregion/metrocampaigns/28manhattan.html?hp&ex=1120017600&en=e8b8
dd35276add5c&ei=5059&partner=AOL) 
The September Democratic primary includes three Hispanic candidates: Mr.  
Espaillat, Councilwoman Margarita López and Carlos Manzano, a former city  
administrator. There are two black candidates: Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright  and 
Councilman Bill Perkins. The remaining candidates are white; they include  
Brian Ellner, a lawyer; former Councilman Stanley Michels; Councilwoman Eva  
Moskowitz and Assemblyman Scott Stringer. Barry Popik, who is an administrative  
law judge, is a Republican candidate. The large Democratic field could narrow  
after the deadline for candidate petitions on July 14, when the Board of  
Elections begins to determine who is qualified for the ballot. The candidates  are 
competing in a borough that is about 45 percent white and roughly 27 percent  
Hispanic. Black Manhattanites account for about 15 percent of the borough, and 
 Asian-Americans account for slightly less than 10 percent.