Welcome to my 1st basketball story. The Heart Of A Champion. It showcases the adventures of Quinn (QG) Gillette from childhood to retirement. This takes place in Baltimore MD btw.
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Quinn (QG) Gillette
Age: 10
Height: 4'6
Weight: 75
Basketball skills: Dribbling, Shooting, Defense, Speed
Basketbal Weaknesses: Passing, Strength
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Nick Howard
Age: 9
Height: 4'9
Weight: 85
Basketball skills: Attacking the basket, Passing, rebounding
Basketball weaknesses: Defense, shooting, speed, strength
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Name: Jordan Gillette
Age: 9
Height: 4'5
Weight: 65
Basketball skills: speed, layups, passing, mid range shooting, handles
Basketball weaknesses: 3 point shooting, strength, defense,
2010
QG (age 10) beats his best friend Nick Howard (age 9) 21-0 for the 5th time that day. Ncik Howard scowls at his friend "Tomorrow im gonna score on you" He says with a determined face
QG smirks "You said that yesterday Nigga" he says while laughing at his friends scowl. He then checks the clock at the indoor rec facility to see it said 7:30 "Aye Bruh I gotta go. Gotta make sure my sis goes to sleep. Make sure to get home before Jordan gets worried."
Nick nods and goes to jog home leaving QG to think about things. He then walks home.
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QG walks into his house to see his mom past out on the couch. He uses a sad smile as he covers his mom with a blanket. Since his dad died his mom has had to work 3 jobs just to pay for this shithole of an apartment. He then quietly walks to his sisters room to find her faking sleep.
QG sighs "I know you're not sleeping J" He says with a blank expression. The covers move over to see a small lightskin girl with glasses and a pony tail. This was Jordan Gillette (Age 9). She frowns
"How did you know" She says with a pout. She had thought she acted well. QG sighs before he holds up 3 fingers
"Well #1 you're wearing glasses. Who the fuck wears glasses when they sleep" He says causing Jordan to pout once again "#2 You snore loud enough to wake up the entire city of Baltimore" This makes Jordan hit QG playfully "And #3 you never go to sleep unless im in bed with you" And then QG hugs his sister and gets into bed "Now go to sleep. We got practice tomorrow" He says and kisses her on the forehead before falling asleep and Jordan falls asleep a couple minutes later
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2010 10U Maryland Seahawks Basketball Practice 1 hour before practice starts
"Hey J, QG" says Nick Howard as he spots his 2 friends walk into the facility. Jordan blushes at the sight of Nick.
"Hi Nick" Jordan says with a blush. She had a crush on Nick since he had moved in with them after his aunt died. It still hurt her to think Nick had no other blood relatives who would take him in.
"Sup Nick. Me and Jordan bout to 1v1 real quick. Im happy to add you to the "getting dropped off 21 zip" waiting list if you would like" QG says with a smirk. Nick scowls at the reminder that he has yet to score a point against QG
"Shut the fuck up. Embarrass this nigga J" Nick says. This in turn makes Jordan stop staring at Nick and she nods.
QG gives ball 1st. Jordan tries to cut to the rim but is cut off by QGs elite perimeter defense. She then resets her plan. She starts with a simple size up. After about a 10 seconds of seeing what makes her brother bite she cuts to the left and makes it to the free throw line before being stopped by her brother. She then backs up to where she is standing on the three point line. Her brother was not biting on anything. Then she had an idea. Her brother was defending a little bit closer to the right then the left. She then slashes to the right and step backs causing her brother to stumble to the right as she drives to the rim for an easy layup
"OHHHHHH. SHE EXPOSED YOU. HOW DO YOU FEEL" Nick yells happy that someone finally did anything offensively against QG.
QG growls as he looks at Jordans smirking face "Oh really. I see. One good play and u think u can beat me" He says. He gives the ball back to Jordan. QG starts to play more aggressive reaching in whenever he had the chance. Jordan takes advantage of that as she dribbles to the right as if daring him to reach. Once he did she quickly crosses to the left. This makes him trip over himself and fall to the ground. Jordan goes to pop a mid range but not before QG quickly gets up to contest but Jordan instead pump fakes making QG fall again as she drains a jumper.
"OHHHHHH. SHE MADE YO DUMBASS FALL TWICE. HOW DO YOU FEEL" Nick yells. QG growls. No way was he gonna go like that. But the rest of the 1v1 went pretty much like that until later when Jordan was up 20-0 and Nick was dying of laughter. It was at that point where something snapped in to the mind of QG. His eyes. They seemed blank. Almost as if they were dead. But if you took a couple seconds to study it. It was just an extremely accurate lazy eye. It made him cold and calculating. He seemed to be less aggressive and more slow. Almost as if the game went over 100 times slower than it would to someone else. It could predict what you were gonna do before you even had the thought of doing it. It was scary. It gave Jordan nightmares. It made her scared of her brother. But just as quickly as it showed up. It ended.
It took a couple of seconds for Jordan to realize that she had just lost 21-20. 'What the fuck just happened. How the hell' Jordan thought. Nick was just standing there in shock. 'What did i just witness. He's gonna go to the nba . I don't have anymore doubts' Nick thought.
Just as they finished thinking coach and the rest of the team started to come in.
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And that's all. I think thats a pretty good prologue. For anyone thats wondering the lazy eye is just a sharingan but for basketball. If you don't know what a sharingan is look it up.