Personal Narrative: What Basketball Means To Me

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What basketball means to me is family, friends and heritage. Everything so basketball kind of means a lot to me. Although the point of the game is to have fun, I know a lot of times when I wanted to win. One time I was at a rez ball tournament in Reno and my team had already lost one game and we weren’t planning on going home early, so we tried so hard to get up, and we did only one point down and 3 minutes to go. We brought the ball up the court passed it around and got a shot up. Now we were one point up and only a few seconds on the clock, an here we knew they were already coming down the court for the three pointer so I put my hand up and blocked the shot everyone was happy. But then we heard a whistle the ref called it a foul and the shooter

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