Rookie Season

At 5:30pm Pacific Time, I’m playing in my first ever NBA game. My favourite team has drafted me so I'm a player for the LA Lakers against the LA Clippers. Two hours before tip-off the nerves came to me and I thought to myself, ‘what if I have a bad game in front of the home crowd?’ 8:00pm I said to myself, ‘what a great game!’ I had dropped 25 points, 5 assists and 20 rebounds. I went home and the first thing I did was take a nice hot shower. Later on, about 8:45pm, I ordered KFC and it cost $50 – I was that hungry!

I have training 3 days a week. Training is on a Monday, Wednesday and a Friday unless we have games on these days. My teammates are people I get on with, my best friend is Zion Williamson who was previously at the New Orleans Pelicans.

We have an 82 game season and currently we are 1-0 and in the Western conference. I’m a shooting ground and my teammates are Russell Westbrook at point guard, LeBron James at SF, Zion Williamson at PF and Anthony Davies at Centre.

For my second game I’m at home against the Chicago Bulls.

At 6:00pm, I’m getting ready for my second game at the Staples Center, my jersey number is 15. During the game a player on court has COVID and we did not know about it. At half time we get news that someone has the virus on the opposite team. They got sent home and we finished the match but after we self-isolated for a fortnight so that means we couldn’t play our games for two whole weeks.

By June 2021 we have played 81 games and are top of the Western conference. Our last game is against the Chicago Bulls. At 7:30pm I’m getting ready for my final regular game in my first season. At half 8 we began our game. Later we finished our final regular season, our record is 82-0. Not bad. Next for us is the playoffs.

On June 15th 2021 I start my first ever playoff run in my basketball career. My first game series is against the Chicago Bulls AGAIN! My first stats going into that game at 18.7 points per game, 3 assists and 7 rebounds (these were my season’s average stats).

Going into my first game I was nervous because this was a very big game for me. 2 hours before tip-off I was practicing. We won that series 4-0 but, unfortunately, we got news that we can’t play for a month because we are going into another month-long lockdown. So, for that lockdown me and my teammates played NBA 2K21 and we all played out our rest of the season on the game and the NBA told us we will win the Championship anyway.

Finally, we came out of the lockdown and we played the rest of the season. It turns out that during all this we actually won our first championship as a team that our general manager put together. So that night we were figuring out how we were going to go back-to-back the next season. After thinking about this for hours, I began to close my eyes and drift off to sleep…

I have written about this dream world because I knew it would be much easier to write than about the actual world would be. The reason I told my story in this dream world is because the world is full of pain which I can’t handle as well as I think I can.