Sports (basketball) have played a huge role in my life since the second grade; that is when I started playing. I was not very good but just like everyone else, if you want to become good at something you have to practice and put in a lot of hard work. Over the years as I put in countless hours of work and fought through the blood sweat and tears I became one of the best. This was around 4th grade. ironically that is when basketball became competitive for me. I earned a starting spot on my grammar school team playing alongside my good friend Anthony Davis. Day in and day out we imposed our will on everyone our age until our coaches decided to test our abilities on older competition. In 6th grade we were playing u on the 8th grade team so basketball then became very time consuming. Entering high school I didn’t really know what to expect, but it was not that different from any other grade level of basketball, just faster. As I entered the AAU circuit that is when I met real competition, playing with and against the best players in the country. This is when I met back up with an old friend that I played with in grammar school but he was the number one player in the nation and me on the other hand, I was having a hard time getting in the game on my school team. This obviously made me jealous but it just makes me work harder. And that is what basketball has done for me; it has taught me the values of hard work.
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