How to pronounce "palmed"

I then rounded the very bend where his blue truck,

heavy with four tons of floor tiles,

had borne down with great speed

onto the back left corner of the minibus where I sat.

I was then 19 years old.

I'd grown five inches and done some 20,000 pushups

in eight months,

and the night before the crash, I delighted in my new body,

playing basketball with friends

into the wee hours of a May morning.

I palmed the ball in my large right hand,

and when that hand reached the rim, I felt invincible.

I was off in the bus to get the pizza I'd won on the court.

I didn't see Abed coming.

From my seat,

I was looking up at a stone town on a hilltop,

bright in the noontime sun,

when from behind there was a great bang,

as loud and violent as a bomb.

My head snapped back over my red seat,

my eardrum blew, my shoes flew off.