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“Did you see that man Kobe Bryant last night? He put the team on his back!” This is what everyone at school was saying during the 2009 NBA finals. At the time I was in the seventh grade and had no idea what was going on, although it interested me since all my friends knew about this event. After school that day, I saw a commercial on ESPN advertising all basketball fans to watch, “Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Orlando Magic tonight at 6 pm.” The commercial informed me with the following information, it was Game 5 of a 7 game series and the Lakers were up 3-1 and the Lakers needed to win one more game to become a 16 time NBA Championship franchise. Kobe Bryant was the team captain who lead his team into the finals and averaged …show more content…

He played his heart out and ended up scoring 30 points in the final game of the season. As the final seconds ticked down and the Lakers were up 99-86, and Bryant knew he was going to become a four-time NBA champion. After the game was over, the chairmen of the NBA announced Kobe Bryant as the 2009 finals most valuable player. He finally got his championship without O’Neal, and he was incredibly emotional. The commercials that explained Bryant’s story that led up to the finals inspired me to become a basketball player. After watching one basketball game, I wanted to be just like Kobe Bryant. I told my mother that I was going to play on my eighth grade school’s basketball team next year, and I would need a pair of basketball …show more content…

The commercials reeled in my attention and did not give any room for other distractions. Watching Kobe Bryant’s story influenced me to become just like him. Basketball has impacted me in a positive way in terms of academics because without it, I would have been an average student just getting by in the class. Before basketball I was nowhere near the smartest student in my classes and after not making my eighth grade basketball team that motivated me to assign my education as the highest priority so that I could play basketball. I ended up playing basketball all four years in high school and averaged a 4.0 academically with perfect attendance. It’s a humbling experience how the conversations at school and the first basketball commercial I watched about the NBA finals lead me to play a sport that I

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