Bucket's Dream Research Paper

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“ALMOST” THE NBA DREAM Have you ever had a dream of what you want to do when you’re older in life… well buckets did… “I want to play ball”, said Bucket. Buckets woke up to another beautiful day in california watching the sun rise and eating a huge breakfast. Buckets lives just about 2 miles from the Los Angeles Lakers home the Staples Center. He once had a dream about being in the NBA with his favorite NBA player Kobe Bryant, he just really wanted to be in the NBA. That night when Buckets went to sleep his dream came true.
“Ok goodnight i'm going to bed”, said Buckets as he was walking so slowly because he was so tired. And that whole night Buckets couldn't sleep his head was pounding his feet were shaking, he was thinking about
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And it turns out he is on the Los Angeles Lakers now. He was wondering what happen to him when he was taken inside the tv and brought to this place with all NBA players. So he was actually at the staples center playing in the western finals game with the Lakers against the Los Angeles clippers. There was five seconds left time was ticking 4,3,2,1… Buckets threw the ball from full court and it was rolling around the rim and suddenly it fell right in the basket. You could hear the game announcer saying “it's all over in Los Angeles tonight, there heading to the finals”. He was so relieved that he made it because all of the Lakers would be mad at him and the coach won't play him anymore. When he got into the Lakers locker room he magically had his own spot like the other guys. He was officially in the NBA but he still doesn't know how this all happen because he just got pulled into his tv and now he is in the NBA, it all just doesn't make sense. He really wants to know how this happened so he asked all the players if they know about anything of how he was just magically on the Lakers, but no one knew. So that night sitting in his private jet heading up to New York to go head to head with the Knicks for game one of the NBA finals. Buckets got off the plain at about one in the morning to a bright light city with the cars beeping and the plains landing. He just didn't understand …show more content…
Jeremy and Buckets see a huge number one. They say to each other “hey this must be activity one” So they read what number one is and it says you need to find the exit of this dungeon with wild animals and monsters inside. And if they fail they will only have four lives left. So it starts they are running for their lives and hoping to get out. Every second they got to catch their breath they took it so they could stop running away from the monsters and wild animals. Minutes later Buckets and Jeremy both found their way out of the dungeon with still 5 lives left to do all the activities. Jeremy and Buckets who were still trying to figure out what is happening felt a huge shake. They knew at that moment that activity 2 must be starting. It was caled the earthquake. The directions were to get out of the maze with a 10 ranked earthquake happening inside the huge maze. Suddenly Buckets couldn't find jeremy anywhere. So Buckets just went himself and he couldn't do it so they only have 4 chances left but he still couldn't find Jeremy. So as buckets was roaming around the maze. Buckets did it he did it he found the exit which means he only has one more to do to get back home. But the thing was that he can’t see Jeremy anywhere. But Buckets hears a voice saying “look behind you idiot i'm not stupid I got out ten minutes ago waiting for you to come out”. So

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