Basketball has impacted all of our lives. Connection is ingrained in hardwood. Therapy is a perfect pass slipping by defenders. Prayer is putting up a floater and calling game. Generosity is telling your teammate to keep shooting after a miss. Gratitude is a post game dap.
Every Run Has a Story is a series of posts highlighting these experiences, on and off the court, in and around the Andiem community.
Sam P
35 years old • Chameleon on the court • Student of the game • Master passer out the post
Initially you’re definitely judged. Definitely. But if you can play, that all goes out the window. I mean, I’m the Asian guy wearing goggles. I know what some people think when they see me on the court. If a new guy shows up, he’ll probably try to go at me.
But people who know me, they know what I bring to the game.
After all these years, there’s a lot of familiar faces, but Reggie and Branko, we’ve played for 20 years. Growing up we’d play every day until the lights went out. That’s not realistic anymore, but I’ll sacrifice a lot to play with those guys. We’ll play early mornings, we’ll plan weeks in advance, we’ll even play Friday nights.
We’ve grown together, game by game, play by play, and now it’s almost like we’re this one single organism. You can’t replicate that, there’s no match for 20 years of reps.
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