Basketball has been my lifelong passion. I have had basketball on my mind ever since I can remember. I have always played basketball. Due to it being a part of who I am, I had to maintain my strength and endure despite a setback that changed my life in my junior year of high school. As the late great Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom famously said in his song “Dedication”, “Minor setback for major comeback.” I have only played within AAU for three years, but I was on the same squad the first two. Some of my closest friends are the guys on my team. These guys were like family to me as we attended the same school. Aside from my family, this group of folks was the first people I interacted with when I started playing basketball in high school. These guys …show more content…
Every team experiences highs and lows, but we manage to overcome them and grow as a unit. We may have lost five games overall over the course of the past two years. My record with this team is approximately 45 wins and 5 defeats. From the end of my freshman year to the beginning of my junior year, I was a member of this team. Those are incredibly important years in a person's life. Just before high school basketball tryouts in my junior year, I was a passenger in a catastrophic vehicle accident. I was unable to participate fully in the varsity team tryouts as a result. My career took a detour due to the limits imposed by the accident. October through January were some of my most depressive months. Fortunately, because the varsity coach knew me, he left me with an option: play junior varsity or take a year off and don’t play any basketball. At first, I wasn't sure about this concept, but I really love basketball, and I couldn't afford to take a year off because I would go insane.I immediately seized the chance I was given, prepared my desk, and got to work. I felt like I had a lot on my plate during the season, but I had to approach the task head-on and with an open