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On Wednesday, we played our the biggest game of the basketball season, it was for the championship. We led to this game UNDEFEATED, but I guess since we were that good we had to be like Patriots, yup we lost. We didn’t get dominated and we tried almost our hardest. I’m saying that because if we tried our hardest we would’ve won. The main players were Ian, Santiago, DJ, and maybe even me. Although, I made my share of mistakes. But, I think if we did win the game it would’ve been because of DJ. We were losing in the 3rd quarter by about 15 points, I think. The first half his mind wasn’t really… “set” like it always is. Nevertheless, in the second half he made these two threes that made our team get our heads in the game. We finally got the lead of a point with less than a minute still on the clock. They stole the ball and they made a lay-up. They were in the lead a point and they stayed at that lead till the end of the game. It was our hardest loss for two reasons; we never loosed and it was the Championship. Sadly, this was our year to win. Since most the players are in 8th grade there will only be four players from this year’s season playing. Those are Austin, Peter, Daniel, and DJ. DJ will be the one leading everyone next year and I’m glad because, in my opinion, was our best player.

Well guys, I hope you people on the basketball team will shave your heads like Ian, DJ, and me.

I don’t know if anybody has been watching the Playoffs but the teams still in are the Lakers, the Spurs, the Celtics, and the Pistons. The Lakers are playing the Spurs and the Celtics are playing the Pistons. Both series are at 3-1, one for the Celtics and one for the Lakers. And while I speak I’m missing the Lakers game so I gotta finish this up. I’m hoping the Championship will be between the Lakers and the Celtics, if so I’m going for the Celtics.

Wilt Chamberlain, in my opinion, was and still is the best player in the NBA. He was born on August 21st, 1936 and died October 12th, 1999. If you were to compare any player to Wilt Chamberlain in his prime, they would be no match. Michael Jordan’s highest points per game record in a regular season is 37.1, that’s a truly amazing feat. But, Wilt Chamberlain’s is 50.4. That means that he made 50 points every single game! For any present player in the NBA, it’d very close to impossible for them. I’m guessing you guys have heard about his record of points in a game, yup the big 100. No one will be able to top that anytime soon, the only person who has gone close to it is Kobe Bryant, and that was 81 in a game. Wilt Chamberlain was unstoppable. He was amazing in the paint, even when people were on him. Even with his slenderness, 7′ 1″ and weighed 275 lbs, he could take to the basket. It’s obvious why people consider Wilt Chamberlain a legend and the best player in the NBA. Because of his dominance he even caused new rules to be made like they had to widen the lane, offensive goaltending, and you couldn’t jump in a free throw, he jumped backwards when he did them.

            Basketball, it’s greatest sport in the world. You can dribble, block, cross, fake, pass, lay-up, fade, do a jump shot, hook, alley-oop, and last dunk. Even though I’m not as good as I should be for playing as much as I do I get better every day. It’s so much different than all the rest. It’s not like golf where you walk around hitting a little ball for two hours. It’s not like soccer where all you really do is kick, throw, trick, and block. It’s not like tennis where you can’t do a million different things do get a score. Basketball’s action never stops, it’s 32, 48 in th e NBA, or 40 in NCAA, minutes off pretty much not stop running, shooting and all that junk. I guess I can say I’ve committed myself to basketball, I practice four to five days a week. It’s such a sport to me I quit my last passion for it, and that was swimming. Don’t get me wrong, I love swimming, but I didn’t want to do it two hours a day I had to. For all those people who think I’m dogging on their sports, I’m not, just saying how basketball is a wee bit better than all of them for me.

This week I’m been at school because I’m in New Jersey. I’m visiting my dad’s side of the family for a wedding; I haven’t seen them in four years so it’s pretty nice. Now on the subject, yesterday I went to my favorite place to shop, Champs Sporting Goods. You can probably guess what it sells. My dad got me two really cool things, a brand new basketball and a brand new Allen Iverson jersey. The basketball I’ve been using is seven months old, so it’s not in tip top condition. But, this new basketball that I got is very high quality and is new. Allen Iverson is a basketball layer for the Denver Nuggets, my favorite team. He is the third highest scorer per game in the whole NBA. The funny thing, the person in fourth is his teamate, Carmelo Anthony.I also tried new food, I went to good old White Castle. It’s weird, you know how McDonald’s and Burger King sell one burger a person, at White Castle they sell 4-6 per person. The number 4 was for a group of people and sold 20! Yet, they are so scrumptious, delicious, and any other adjective that makes it sound really good. Another place I went to for food was the Cheesecake Factory, I went right after White Castle so I was full. When I got there I just ordered a cheesecake. When it came no one else had any food so I waited 30 minutes, o man those were some hard 30 minutes. When I started eating it it was to rich for me to eat it all, now it’s in the fridge waiting for me. Thanks for reading this post, means lots.

During Spring Break I tried a new “sport”, yeah it’s obviously bungee jumping because that’s the title. It was super scary, that’s because I was looking down. I gotta tell you, that was a bad idea. I stood at the ledge for five minutes and went back out and said I wasn’t going to do it. They told me, the two guys who helped me get psyched, I could do it backwards, so, I went out and I knew that was even scarier. I came back out and said I was going to do it normally. Then, I went to the ledge and they counted, “5, 4, 3, 2, 1, JUMP!!!” Guess what I did, I jumped. It wasn’t scary, it was great. I wasn’t flexing my body so I was very um….. loose. When I flew up I was feet first, scary, so I did a flipped over and came back down. I also did this rocket launcher thing, here is a video, sadly not me, of the bungee jumping and the rocket launcher. The video was done where I did it.

No I didn’t do those sick flips in the rocket launcher though.