5 Defensive Balls

After beating the shark's team and trying to leave the gym. The shark's team coach approached me and asked if I wanted to join his team and offered multiple benefits which were childish benefits so I stopped him and told him to talk to the principal maybe they can arrange benefits that involve money. He looked at me like I'm a monster but I ignored him and said call me when you are ready to win.

I left with my team and Coach K took us to Mc Donald's to celebrate our victory. Everyone kept asking how I made that shot and I told them it was pure luck and they believed me but Coach K didn't. He then asked me what the other team's coach asked and I told him the whole deal and he was surprised I handled it so well until I told him about the money part which made him frown.

He knew someone would take me away if his school didn't also offer a contract with me, so I told him to also talk to the principal before my price goes higher. He then asked me what my price and I told him $12 thousand dollars a year and he was shocked a little kid like me would have such a big appetite. I told him that's just for the first year next year it will rise by another $12k and he didn't say anything but nodded.

The rest of the team were in shock when they heard our conversations, some even started to get jealous especially Darrel he never liked me since the first day of training. After the celebration, we all went home and it was pretty late when I got home so I quickly showered and did my homework and went to sleep.

The next day I told my mom about the game and all she said was \"good job keep it up\" I just nodded at her and went to school. The school bus was crowded today on the way to school and I saw why after few minutes two kids got into a fight on the bus and we were all sent back to our bus stops for our parents to take us to school. When I got home my mom was passed out so I just called Rasta (big brother) to come to pick me up.

He told me he has worked and I told him to call off we can make triple what he makes at work today. He came to get me and we headed down to some parks to make bets on games. We drove around and until we found some vets playing ball at a park. We approached them and asked them if anyone wants to play for money and they looked at me and immediately smirked and thought they were going to earn some easy money.

I then pulled out $600 and they got excited and agreed. We set the rules to play to 15 points per game two vs two and that they could add more people but it would be $100 per person but they had too much pride to add more people. Rasta was a little nervous about the thought of playing with so much money.

They automatically said I got lucky so I told them to keep giving me the shot then and they laughed it off and said money is on the line. Rasta was setting me up by setting picks for me and after a while, they started to double team me and I just pass to rasta who was under the basket for the easy points.

When the game was over they forked over the money and we asked who wanted to play next and they all bailed out saying we cheaters so we moved on the next court since we won $200 and no one was willing to lose that much money. After winning $200 we made our way to another park where we won $400 from a group of drug dealers and moved on to some Jamaicans winning another $400 because of their pride they wanted to win their money back.

Now that we had $1k we went to the mall to do some shopping. We purchased some Jordans and a Nintendo 64. We then bought some clothes and headed to lunch at an all you can eat buffet. We had all kinds of foods and ate until we were full. I was so full I ran to the restroom and threw up a lot of the food I just ate which pissed me off.

Rasta was excited he was able to have so much fun today and make a lot of money while doing some shopping and got matching Jordans. I had gotten a pair for Opal too hopefully she likes it. When my brother left I set up the Nintendo 64 and played until my sister Opal came home from school and I present her the shoes. She thanked me and slams the door in my face I shake my head and remember I still have basketball practice but it's a little too late so I decided to skip it since I know I don't even need to practice.

The next day at school Coach K tells us we have our first game coming up in two weeks and that we should get prepared. I tell coach I'm already ready and that I won't be showing up to practice anymore because there's no point no one can beat me he was about to say something but didn't want me to get mad and quit the team so I walked off saying let me know when we are ready to play a real game.

The weekend was approaching and I was ready to relax. I headed over to John's house after school because it's a Friday and I could do my homework anytime during the weekend. I spot Akua and ask her if she wants to come to see me play in our first game and she quickly tells me she's not interested in watching little boys run around with their balls in their hands.

I laugh and ask her if she was interested in seeing my balls in her hands and she ran off blushing. When I reached John's house he was getting ready to head to the court so I joined him and we went to play someone on one. I really needed to work on my defense since my third ability hasn't activated yet and unless I get the ball first I will be screwed if the other team started and never missed a point.

I let John get the ball first since he was taller than me. He tried to use his body to push me in the post and lay it up but I quickly went around him and stole the ball. He was mad I stole the ball but by the time he reached me the ball had already left my hand as a rainbow that way he had no chance to block it and I made the bucket.

We continued to play until John was tired and ready to go home, I had learned a lot about defense in this game so I was feeling very hopeful that I could hold my own against anyone. Eazy (mc) practiced every day until the day of the first game came up. My mom, Rasta, Flo, Opal, John and his family, Shawn and even Akua showed which surprised me.

In the changing room, everyone was looking at me strangely so I asked Momba what happened and he told me I won't be starting since I don't come to practice and that someone else took my spot. I didn't even get mad because I really don't feel like playing the whole game so I went to Coach K and asked him if I even have some playing time and he told me that I'm going to be used as a secret weapon that comes in at the end of the games to close the upcoming seasons games.

I thanked him and left to go put on my uniform. I don't normally see my body but when I finally do I notice I'm built like a horse a full six-pack and some muscles gains I quickly shake the thought of having such a fine toned body and run out to go sit on the bench and watch the game until it's my turn to shine. My family and friends get mad and think I'm not going to play because I've been sitting on the bench for a while but I quickly calm them down and tell them I'm only playing the last four minutes.

Tom and hack( SF and PF) were scoring most of the points while Darrel was setting them up. My replacement Eric couldn't score a single point due to his nerves of being in front of a crowd of people. Momba (center) had already grabbed 13 rebounds and made 11 points. They were playing great but the team they were facing weren't pushovers either they were winning by 3 points because their star player Yoshi was scoring like a mad man.

He already had 34 points and didn't seem to be slowing down. With 4 minutes left on the clock Coach, K finally put me in the game and we were down by 6 points. My family and friends immediately got energized and cheered me on when they saw me warming up. Darrel sneered and I glared at him as a warning to pass me the ball.

I finally sub in and Eric signed a relief because he was tired. Darrel quickly gives the ball to me and Yoshi even tho he's tired comes to cover me I smirked and took the shot so fast he didn't have time to react. I turned away to go play defense the whole gym was quiet and was wondering why I walked away when the ball was still in the air.

In the next moment all everyone heard was the sound of the net and the whole place erupted with cheers. I quickly make work of the team by catching up and passing them in scores. Yoshi is pissed at this point and couldn't believe they were hiding such a player until the last minute. The rest of the game was uneventful so we went on to win by 9 points and my family friends came down to congratulate me on my first game.

John's father said he would like to see me play against Micheal Jordan one day and I laughed it off. Akua came up to me and said: \"good game didn't know you could ball and were the star player of the team\". I respond by saying \"there's a lot of things you don't know about me how about we talk moreover a nice dinner say tomorrow night at 8\".

She smirked and said \"sorry honey but you are a hundred years too early to ask me out on a date and do you think my family would let a ten-year-old take me out on a date at least wait till we get to high school,'' with that she winked at me and walked away. I forgot I'm a ten-year-old boy now and need to slow down on girls. I can't wait to have sex again because well I still have urged as a 50-year-old mind. My mother takes us to Burger King to celebrate our victory.