COMMENTARY
Basketball. It’s on everyone’s mind right now. Whether you like to play it, watch it, or just endlessly fill in and refill in brackets; basketball is the sport of the moment.
It’s also my favorite sport…I’ve played since I was old enough (and far enough away from the ground) to start dribbling. I can still hear my dad: “Take the ball with you to the post office and dribble the whole way. You’ll never get better if you don’t practice, practice, practice…and don’t just use your right hand either!” So I would put my right hand behind my back and make myself dribble with only my left hand all the way to the post office and back (using my right hand to carry the mail on the way home).
Challenging myself to grow in weak areas wasn’t the only life lesson I took away from my years of basketball…here are four more – random, unrelated, and in no particular order: