Hoop passion

By: Brandon T.

Basketball is something that if I had not grown up with, I don’t think I would be the same person who I am today. At a very young age, I was introduced to basketball, and LeBron James soon became someone I looked up to and who was also my inspiration for playing basketball.

While playing and watching more basketball, I grew to like his teammate at the time Kyrie Irving, those two I would be inspired by a little kid, and try to replicate their moves.  I convinced my parents to get me a basketball hoop so I can practice on it everyday.

Getting that hoop fueled my passion for basketball even more, playing basketball everyday even before school and after school. The obsession with basketball started, my parents fully supported it, they suggested I should join a team, and I agreed with them. 

With the support with my parents, my uncle signed me up for a basketball club, and I continued to play basketball even more, and improved. With the club, I also made more friends whom I play basketball with from now and then.

Every day I practiced, right after I got home from school and until food was made. I went to Bridges Academy the following year, and I made the basketball team. While on the team, I made friends who I still talk to this day. We made the playoffs the same year too, but finished third place. Even with that finish I still felt great about basketball, and eager to play even more, but COVID eventually happened and put a halt on everything.

Going into highschool, sadly the people I played basketball with in middle school no longer played basketball. I still continued to play basketball at Yerba Buena High School, and made the team and so far have three years of Varsity Basketball. I also continued to make new friends while playing basketball there also.

As a kid, my dreams were to go to the NBA hopefully, but as I got older I realized how impossible going to the NBA is. But I do wish I can play basketball after highschool like playing at a JUCO level at best.

For Warrior Times, this is Brandon Tran