Personal Narrative: My Life As A Basketball Player

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Boom, There I was ball in my hand with 0.5 seconds left on the clock. I dribble the ball once then pulled up for the three pointer swish nothing but net. The crowd goes crazy and everyone ran on the court. There undefended streak is over. The team named me as the player of the game. I had 23 points, five assist and 10 rebounds. The best game I ever had it was also a rival games to so the stands where full of people cheering on my schools basketball team. After the game coach named me player of the game I was so proud of myself all I could do was smile.I knew that the weeks of practice was going to pay off one day and it did. My friends and family was proud of me and how I played .I was always the first in the gym last to come out every practice …show more content…
My hand was hurting but I kept playing but a few mins later in the game my had was hurting to bad so I left the game and went to the locker room. They did an x-ray and saw I had fractured my hand in two spots. Out for three to six weeks that hurt me so bad because I just had started getting better and play time. So the first week was straight my hand wasn’t really hurting but my pride was.I felt that I let ,my team down with not being on the court playing but I knew that I would be back soon so I just relaxed and recovered while I was out. After three weeks I hand to go to therapy to rebuild muscle in my hand they had I squeezing a stress ball 100 times for 30 mins it was difficult but I had to get back on the court. The next week I was almost back to 100% I started back practicing with the team and stuff if felt good to be back on the court with my teammates. First game back was against the champs from the year before, they were a very good team but I knew that we could beat them because we practice hard for weeks for this game and I was back playing. It was a good game I had only 10 points, five assists and 11 rebounds it was a okay game to be back from a

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