Watching the NBA...

It all began with this.....{my girl is number 3}....she made the 7th grade team last year but this year while she was on the 8th grade team (the 8th graders get to play in the gymnasium} watching them play on a real court with the fancy scoreboard seemed to make it more like they where playing real basketball.

                                                  {the 8th grade team}
Or maybe it was because in the regular season games when they played the school that they previously had lost to TWICE but during the tournament when they were playing against that school they where behind by several points in the fourth  quarter and they came back and won the game to advance them to the finals. Which was so exciting to watch and I came to the conclusion I LIKE Basketball.  I was on the edge of my seat and when they shot a basket I jumped up and cheered very enthusiastically, me? OH YES ME?!!.  I've even taken it a step further with my basketball phase, {is it a phase?}....when I'm subbing and I'm on recess duty I've been joining in with the 5th grade boys...well.  Madison's coach has the girls do this thing where they wave their arms up in the air and back and forth and yell, "BALL, BALL, BALL".  I'm quite competitive and don't like to get beat by some 11 year old boys so I started doing this and they looked at me like I was a lunatic and I grabbed the ball and shot a basket or two.  They told me I could not do that and I told them, "oh yes I can, the girls do it at middle school".  You might of guessed but I don't know a lick about basketball so not only do I drive the 5th grade boys CRA CRA {slang for Crazy, yes I live with teenagers} with my antics I have to question any fellow parent at the games all of the Basketball details and rules and why they got that foul while watching the game. {you don't want to take me to Vegas, I do this to at the Craps table too}

But in the end the girls took FIRST place in the middle school basketball tournament.  I must say they had an OUTSTANDING 7th grade player on the team and she really was like a 12 year old female Kobe Bryant.  Now because of this I've been following the NBA....who would of thought I'd turn into a basketball nut.  I loved watching the Clippers a week ago come back from way behind and win against the Oklahoma City.   It's so face-paced and can change in just seconds.  I watched the Lakers tonight against the Denver Nuggets {Kenzie thinks that is the funniest name for a team} and it was really close but the Lakers are leading 3-1 now in the series. I think it will be really interesting if the Lakers and the Clippers make it to the finals.  What do you think?  Are you a basketball fan?  What is your favorite team?   

 

                         {the tournament team with 7th and 8th}