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Imagine this: A child with 4 brothers and 6 sisters, with no dad and not a lot of money. He lives in a run down old trailer park. He has to decide whether to go to school with his friends or play basketball on an organized team. Well, Once upon a time there lived two boys, Ramon Thigby and Gregory Clintonet. Ramon was a small Mexican boy who lived in a beat-up trailer with his 4 brothers and 6 sisters. His dad had run away when he was born, so it was just his mom left with the job of taking care of 11 children. Then there was Gregory, "Greg" they called him. He was a rich boy because his dad was the governor. He lived in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ramon lived in downtown Los Angeles where all he did all day was play with a little tiny basketball that his mom gave him for his golden birthday when he was 7 years old. Back then they didn't have hoops like we have today. They had wooden baskets that they would tie by strings to a telephone pole. On the other side of the country, Gregory was busy with an underwater chess tournament. He has a basketball court in his room that he got for a baby
He wasn't as good in the leagues, because he hadn't had practiced with a team before, let alone with someone guarding him. There was a short break between each game played. At the tip-off Ramon got the ball and dribbled immediately toward his basket. Gregory succeeded very high, with a season average of 15. Nobody passed him the ball because whenever he got it, he would throw up an ugly shot or he would get the ball stolen from him. To top it all off, they went 4th scale bankruptcy. Ramon wasn't as good as Gregory, but he did have a deeper desire to play the game. Their house caught on fire and burned down. Not sure what it was, he just slipped it into his sock. He had a personal trainer and practiced every other day. When Ramon got to the fourth grade, he got his chance to play on an organized team. It was so bad that it twisted his ankle and Mrs. If he went there while those kids were there, they would make fun of him really bad. Now we move up to higher stages, "select" basketball.
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