BasketballOne of my favorite sports is basketball. I like it because it involves using your hands, you have to run a lot, and I'm very good at it. I also like to watch it too. My favorite NBA (National Basketball Association) team is the Boston Celtics. I first started playing basketball when I was 6 years old in the States. My first several years I played mostly on local "house" teams. In one playoff game I scored 26 points which I think is still a record. After house league, I graduated to the McLean Travel Team (our city's all-star team) when I was 10. The season lasted from October to March and we played 15 games against other towns in the Northern Virginia area. When we moved to Malaysia, I was afraid there wouldn't be any basketball, but I was surprised. We found that there were school-based teams in middle school, which wasn't the case in the U.S. Only High Schools have school teams. I'm getting really excited about the upcoming basketball season at ISKL. In a preseason tournament at Garden International School, we came in 1st place out of 5 teams.
If you don't know what the sport of basketball is, I'll tell you a few of the basic rules and regulations. There are 5 players on the court for each team (5 v 5). The teams objective is to move the ball up the court and put the ball into the basket. There are three things you can do with the ball: pass, shoot, or dribble. The other team that doesn't have the ball tries to block the ball. There are five positions: Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Small Forward, Power Forward, and Center. I play the shooting guard and small forward positions. This site will tell you some of the more advanced rules.
