Personal Narrative: How Basketball Changed My Life

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I started basketball in the 7th grade. I had never played on a basketball team before. I knew the basics, how to shoot and dribble a basketball. What I didn't realized is that basketball was way more than that. It's all about team work. I had to learn so many things, you can't just go and expect to play. Basketball taught me patience. I didn't get to play the first game, I sat on the side and helped my team. There were many things I had to learn, the plays, motion, the formation of the shots. Basketball is so much more then taking the ball and throwing it into a hoop. Basketball made my friend range bigger, i talked to people I would have never talked to before. We had to get to know each other. If one of us failed, all

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