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%. After math 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!
At the beginning of Jamal’s college career he played for the Kansas Jayhawks. He was the youngest player on his team. There was one teammate of Jamal that actually liked the rest of the team really didn’t care about Jamal. Jamal’s friend is Freddy. Freddy grew up in this little city in pennsylvania called Coatesville. Freddy grew up in a pretty wealthy family which is the opposite of Jamal. Freddy’s game is that he’s good at outside shooting and he can get other people open and give them a good assist. Freddy is a short white kid like around 6’1 and weighs about 185. Jamal and Freddy each start as freshman and are the two youngest people on the team. The Jayhawks are the 8 seed in the NCAA and they made it into the semifinals and are playing duke to get into the championship to play against Michigan State. The Jayhawks are down by 2 with 7.6 seconds left Freddy passes the ball in to Jamal and Jamla is dribbling down the court. Then one of Jamal’s teammates Pablo screams at Jamla “ hey give me the ball ill have a better chance of making it then you”. Then Jamal said “ No I got this” and drove down the court. There are now 3 seconds left he pulls up for three. It hits the front of the rim and goes in! The crowd goes wild and even Pablo said good shot I probably would’ve missed.
The Middle Seat 