1v1 with a PRO 😅🏀
146Like most aspects of life, there are “levels” to the game of basketball and yet, some will choose to use these differences (in talent, skill, experience, etc) as a means to divide or exclude others and some will choose to use it as means to bring us all closer together and the LATTER has always been the most inspiring aspect of the game for me and a true reflection of the POWER OF SPORTS and how this children’s game is “bigger than basketball.”
As someone who began dabbling with basketball as an adult as hobby to lose weight, make friends, and improve my overall physical and mental health, I’ve always had the tendency to seek out the most talented individuals to get cooked by (😅😂) because it has always been the most efficient way to not only get an incredible workout, but to also “level up” and learn!
However, the disappointing (yet understandable) reality is that most “high level” players don’t like to play with those who they deem as “beneath them”.
“It’s a waste of my time…I do this foreal…Stay in your lane…”
To be honest, you can’t blame this behavior because what would they have to gain by playing with/against someone that couldn’t in turn make them better?
Which makes this experience 100x more inspiring and wholesome because in spite of all of that, Kevin, a pro grinding every day for a contract, took the time out of his day to chop it up with me, simply for his LOVE OF THE GAME. In today’s society, it is truly rare to find so much talent with so little ego and that’s why I know that, wherever basketball ends up taking him, good things will follow.
Hopefully, I can keep convincing him to run in back until I can squeeze out a W 😅😂