By: Thad B.
One day there was a boy named Jamal who lived in New York City. He lived with his Mom in an apartment building. Jamal and his mother were very poor their apartment building was a wreck and they barely could pay for rent. Jamal was 17 years old and he loved to play basketball. Anytime he wasn’t helping his Mom all he did was play the game he loved.
Jamal was very good at basketball but he had bad grades in school so he couldn’t play basketball if he didn’t have good grades. Then one day his school had a guest speaker, the speaker told the students about his life story. His life story was about how he loved to play football but he couldn’t play because of his grades but when he actually put effort into school the last year of college he was drafted into the NFL. Then Jamal started to try harder in school so he could play basketball. That next day Jamal was in math class that was his worst subject. They had a test last class and were getting back today. Jamal knew that he was going to get a bad grade because he always does. When he got his text back he was stunned he got 97.3%. Aftermath class Jamal started to talk to himself if I did a good job on this test I can study for others and get good grades.
So after Jamal started to try again he finally could play basketball. Jamal was a center on his school basketball team. Jamal was 6/10 and weighed 235. Jamal was an inside-outside scorer he was also getting d1 college looks. At the end of the school season, a Gentleman wearing a black suit came up to Jamal and said “Hi, I’m the scout for The Kansas Jayhawks and I was wondering if you would like to be a part of our basketball team. We will give you a free ride as well Jamal answered Heck Yeah!
End Of Part ONE!
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