Boy21

“That’s just a story.”

“So are we—we’re stories too,” Russ says.

“What do you mean?”

“There’re probably people who wouldn’t think our lives are real either, if we wrote exactly what happened to us in a book.”

maybe I did figure out life through basketball—people care about you if you can help them win, and they don’t care about you if you can’t.

We really don’t get to understand why most of the time. It’s true.