Arriving at the gym changing rooms Abdi took off his school uniform as he put on a white t-shirt and blue shorts.
Walking inside the gym, he saw the teacher and his classmates already setting up the basketball court. Walking over, he was told to grab down the basket on the other side.
Running over there he jumped as he pulled down the basket setting it up. Abdi then walked towards the basket racks as he grabbed a ball.
"Abdi, we're playing a full court game", hearing that Abdi gave the ball to the teacher as he chose the teams and some bench players to sit out.
Team A:
Kevin
Dayron
Aaron
Vincent
Mohammed
Team B:
Abdi
Charlie
Rode
Paul
Wesley
Subs:
Jake
Kieran
Precioux
Harry
Walking onto the court, Abdi was made to play SF due to his tall height. "Ok just make sure we win".
*FWEEEH*
The game sarted as team A won the jump ball, "cmon Rode!" Abdi said running back, Dayron brought the ball up for team A as he ran straight to the basket throwing a miss timed floater.
"Hahaha, Dayron you suck!" Abdi said as he called for the ball running across the court, getting the pass, he ran past his defender seeing his teammate to the left and a defender in the box.
Abdi decided to draw him out and pass, so he ran straight at the defender but at the last second he threw a no look pass which his teammate caught lying the ball up.
For your information, nobody here can dunk.
Celebrating, Abdi high-five his teammate as they both ran back on defense. Starting the game again, this time Kevin decided to bring the ball up as team A decided to play a passing game.
They made team B run around for the ball, Wesley pissed of shouted "stop passing around and play the damn game!", as if replying to Wesley.
Team A passed the ball around broke through with a neat pass from Vincent as the player inside the box grabbed it laying it up.
"2-2" the teacher said on the side.
Abdi asked for the ball when the point guard reached the half court line. Being immediately defended Abdi got caught of guard but regained his balance as he faced his opponent, seeing it was Dayron, Abdi smiled as he hit a crossover on him although sloppy.
Being juked, Dayron shouted for backup, Abdi being fully focused on getting a shot off ran towards the middle, seeing Mohammed push towards him, Abdi made a decisive shot.
Leaping in the air he shot, watching the ball in the air Abdi prayed it went in since he wasn't confident in his shooting skills, the ball hit the back of the rim as Abdi swore thinking he missed.
However, the ball hit the back of the basket coming out an bouncing in the air before falling back into the hoop, "let's go!", "nah your so fucking lucky".
Dayron said hissing, Abdi laughing walked back to his defensive assignment, he was on a boy called precioux they subbed him in for Mohammed.
Precioux grabbed the ball as he started dribbling, Abdi defended him as he watched out for slight moves and pass lanes.
After abit of patience from Abdi and precioux's hesitation, a error occurred as Abdi pounced on it ripping the ball out of his hands as ran to the other side of the court.
"Shit!" The team A members all swore as they sprinted back, Abdi arriving at the bucket leapt off of one foot, he could jump pretty high as his hand neared the basket but still he was too short of a jump so he threw a floater.
"4-2".
With that the game continued, both teams scored continuously, the score was 48-46 to team A.
Abdi had 13 points, the whole of the class had to play so his minutes were reduced.
Sitting on the bench with his teammates he said "not gonna lie, basketball might be fun", "alie, I never really liked it but high intensity is fun".
There were two minutes left of the class, so Abdi subbed in as the score now was 50-48, walking on to the court he played as a SG.
Getting the ball from the PG, he walked as he looked for options, but seeing there went any as they were tightly marked he decided to go alone.
He hit a small crossover, and making him lean, Abdi then quickly spun as he ran inside but two defenders came to him, seeing his teammate in the corner he threw it over.
*Swish*
"LETS GOOOO!" Abdi ran to him as his teammate hit that three pointer when the teacher ended the game, celebrating with his team Abdi looked over to team B as he laughed and taunted them.
50-51.
The game ended. Going back to the changing rooms, he changed as he engaged in trash talk with the losing team all the way until he got into his mums car.
As he sat down his mum greeted him as he smiled and greeted her back, going back home he eat some dinner, hopping onto the ps4, he played Fortnite.
'Football is fun, but I feel like I have even more talent for Basketball, seeing what Kobe was doing with the spins and the crossovers, it wasn't that hard to do, also the half-spin wasn't hard to do either', Abdi thought.
'And I enjoyed the thrill of imagining dunking a basketball".
"I'm already on the football team so I'll just sign up for my school basketball team".
"Which ever one I do better at I'll stick to".