The last time I played basketball was back in 2006 with my sister Nina. Playing basketball was the one and only one thing my mom encouraged me to do. She would say that because I am super tall it would be perfect for me. I played for about a year and gave up because I couldn’t stand the long runs at practice anymore. I was ok running on the court while playing, but as soon the coach would want us to run half of the neighborhood our basketball court was in I would be thinking about how much I hated it. I also had an issue where our practices would finish right when cartoons would start on the National TV Chanel. So even if I ran as fast as I could, I would still get home around 6:15pm or 6:20pm and the cartoon episode would end at 6:30pm or sometimes at 6:20pm if the episode was short.
So, I didn’t want to miss out on my cartoons anymore and I did not want to do the long runs. As for Grant, he played basketball throughout high school, traveled to Denmark, Sweden, and Finland on a traveling team for basketball, and was the captain of his team.
Yesterday I brought up the idea of heading to a basketball court and see if I can still play like I used too. Lord, did he whoop my butt! He served me three pointers left and right. And he was busy telling me “Oh baby, I am out of shape…” laughing at me in a smart way.
We had so much fun and decided we will be playing four times a week!
The best exercise in the world and the more you play the better you get and the easier it become.
Gurl those cartoons was life 🤣🤣 I remember my mom use to tell us if you don’t take a nap after school no cartoons!! So we would sleep the whole afternoon for those cartoons haha. Wow!! I didn’t know you could play basketball ?? Keep surprising us hun😘