Many people enjoy watching sports, and those people who are truly involved in their favorite sport will participate in a variety of ways, involving family and friends if they can. The excitement of the game results in an avalanche of cheers, laughter and tears during the pulse of the competition, wrong calls and the acrimonious suspense of evenly matched opponents. Some people throw game time parties at their homes. Others travel far, at great expense, to watch a game live and party before and after the event.

Especially those who have donned a uniform to play their favorite sport, treasured memories come to life on game day. By following specific players, fans can live vicariously by sharing the hopes and triumphs of those players, and can commiserate with them when those players’ dreams are shattered by injury or scandal. I have a friend who comes from a family of four generations of living and breathing the sport of basketball. He has told me that as a child, he immersed himself in basketball and it didn’t occur to him that he had a choice to play the game. He loved it and still loves it. Plus, he went far in the game: a starting shooting guard in high school and a point guard on his college basketball team.

The firstborn of his family, my friend understood the taunts about his responsibility to produce a progeny of basketball heroes: the next generation. He has two brothers who were also given that responsibility, but my friend’s wife got pregnant first. All generations of the family talked about my friend and his wife, who turned down the doctor’s offers to identify their child’s gender before birth, just to keep everyone on a knife edge of suspense. Assumed as a child, many blue-colored gifts were sent before birth.

My friend saw his newborn placed in his wife’s arms, and she shone at that moment. Then she looked at her husband and said something memorable to him. She said, “I went boo boo.” And he told me that she told him the same thing for the next two births, with Boo Boo 3 being the last and last issue for his family. All three of those girls are loved by their families for generations. They also happen to be great basketball players. Boo Boo 3 won a college scholarship to play! I love this story. Such a blessed family has my friend, and the family tradition of loving the game of basketball will be passed on to the next generation. #TAG1writer

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