Basketball- By James

Basketball is one of the oldest sports in the world. It involves a lot of running and thinking. You have to play all your hardest but with good sportsmanship towards your teammates and towards the other team. Sports of any kind can help any person relieve stress and be active. Even though the referees can call unreasonable fouls or who has possession of the ball, it’s only a game. It was invented so anybody can have fun and enjoy the game itself. I believe that every kid should have an opportunity to be on the court and just have fun. In some parts of the world, some kids don’t get the chance to play any sports. Some of the reasons that they can’t play are that the country might be poor or the kids’ parents don’t have enough money to buy the necessary thing to play a sport. I played basketball for the Academy's Middle Division Wildcats. During practice, you show the coach what you can bring for the team. For me, I was good at defense. During games, you feel nervous until the game has started. After the tip off started, you just have fun and play hard. We lost a couple of game but that was because we weren't working as a team. But later on in the season, we worked together perfectly and won our first round tournament. It doesn't matter if your good or bad, you just have to worked together and have fun. You'll get better in the future but that also means the competition gets better too. We lost our championship game against Odessa, but only by three points. The referees made some bad calls but we played our hardest and that is worth more than a whole army base of steel. Afterwords, our coach told us not to worry about the game because they'll be more games next year. He gave us a speech about investment and entitlement. He said that investment build overtime with hard work. Entitlement was a position or title that was given to you without you doing hard work. Overall, basketball season was fun and it thought me values that would be a use to me overtime.