Descriptive Essay On Basketball

Down the court, Corey is running. Six foot three inches, short brown hair nearly all of it stuck to his head, sweat dripping from his face to the floor. He looks as if he had just taken a shower. It is now the 4th quarter 8 seconds on the clock the score is 50-52, Corey gets a pass in the outside. Now 5 seconds on the clock, Corey is tenser than ever to make this shot and win the game to take a final win for the season, and for the end of Corey’s high school career. Corey relaxes and takes a breath, now 3 seconds on the clock, Corey hears nothing but the sound of his beating heart nearly beating out of his chest, and sounds like a energetic octopus banging a drum 8 times each second. As Corey looks down his jersey and remembers why he plays the game he looks down to his white, size 14, basketball shoes on the near end of their days and remembers how hard he has worked for this and how all the effort may now pay off. He focuses.

He lifts his arm and raises his elbow.

At last he flicks his wrist and releases the ball. The ball floats threw the air the buzzer sounds, the buzzer is all he can hear. Everyone watching the ball float to the rim. The crowd on their toes, teammates on the bench biting their nails, the ball hits the backboard, then the rim, and is now spinning around the rim as if there is a magnet keeping the two together. The ball rolls around the edge of the rim once again as if it is to fall out and back down the the court, but then as if it's magic the ball rolls back around. Swish. The crowd goes absolutely insane, the game has now ended and the score is 53-52! The team attacks Corey, as they raise him up on their shoulders the team begins singing “WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, my friend,” as the band, and crowd join

in!

(In the afternoon of August 3, 2009, Corey is working out with a teammate of his in the off season in the weight room of Gettysburg college, Corey has a full scholarship to the college. Corey is committed to playing basketball for the Bullets.)

As they two are working out Corey is not right, something has occurred, Corey could only hear a buzzing in his ear, but Corey refused to let it faze him. He then went to pick up a weight but couldn’t. He told his buddy it must be stuck. Glued down maybe even, but when his friend went over to try to lift it he lifted it with ease. Corey then started shaking and he almost fell when his friend ran to help him he they got him to the trainer in minutes. The trainer figured he was having a seizure and the ambulance came and got him. Corey was in a coma for a week. His mom and dad stayed in the hospital with him threw it all, his family was there every hour of every day. Corey then found out in the hospital what had happened it had been something with his brain. Corey now has to learn how to do everything all over again.