Personal Narrative: The Benefits Of Playing Basketball

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This one time my dad had brought me a basketball goal from the neighbors house. The neighbor was throwing away its old basketball goal cause they had gotten a new one so they dint mind if we had taken the old one. That’s the first time I have ever had a basketball goal. I dint had a basketball to play with but a soccer ball was the only thing I had it was bouncy enough so it all manage to work out. Ever since then I started playing the game basketball. Since I had got the basketball court I had started playing every day after school until it got to the point where I just started going to the parks around my area to play with people and see where my skill was at and how good was i. Me and my friends enjoyed playing because before I used to play soccer. In the game of basketball I had so many advantages like my height was one of them. I was very useful with that ,it had came in handy a lot of times like when I have to get a …show more content…
I take a good couple 3 hrs playing basketball at the parks. If the park or the place I go to don’t have that many people at the place then Ill usually leave early but if it gets packed the games usually take about 30 minutes each so if you have 2 people of ahead of you your going to have to wait a pretty good while to play. That’s the thing about playing at a place where it is so packed cause it would take you all day to play one game, plus if you loose youl probably have more people waiting in line so even then you will have to wait for a longer time but at times its worth it cause you could really get your self in a close game those are the types of games I like the most. When it rains you could still play cause you could just go to a indoor court because not all courts are outside and the courts that are indoor are better cause you have more grip on your shoes and its just feel

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