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Sunday, 25 May 2008

On Friday the team was chosen I was so excited to find out what the team was and if I was going to be on it. It came to the time where the team was to be chosen, the coach had picked 12 people to play he read through the list he read the first 10 players it was not me I was starting to get disapointed and angry untill he read out the last two on the list one of them was me, my angry quickly turned into happiness and joy. I was now on the college side for Philidelphia our first game would be in the next 3 weeks. Icould not wait I just wanted to play, We started training strait away,today we worked on Offence we have a play that works really well on man to man defence it is called double banana and an other play called High ball which works on zone defence. we run these plays for the next hour untill the play is in our heads. It comes to the end of training, we all go home, on my way home I run in to an old freinf of mine who was in “Heat73″ but I soon relize he is not hear to catch up he is hear to threaton me and make me go back to Miami. He told me if I didnt go back he come back and personally kill me, I told him I have started a new life and im playing basketball for a college side, he doesnt care. I do not want to go back to Miami.    

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One week later was the night of the practice match

I was one of the starting 5 I played in position 3 (tall forward) I had Chris Paul and Kevin Garnet on my side. at half time it was us 51 to the other side 56 we were losing by 5 points, we were still in it, we could still win it. at three quater time we were still down by three points the score was 73 to 76. We went in to the forth quater trailing by three, 10 minutes to go in the game they hit a three point shot which brings there lead to 5 the score was 112 to 117. 5 minutes to go I drove downt the centre of the key dished the ball off to Chris Paul at the three point line he hit the shot, they were up by two all we needed was a three point shot. The other team imbounded the ball we got a steal Chris Paul took a three point shot again it was good it went in, the umpire said his foot was over the line and was only a two point shot the score was 117 to 117 with only 35 seconds to go. we ran our play which had me driving to the ring, I layed it up I got fouled the ball was rolling around the ring it fell off it was a miss, I had two free throws from the foul, the siren went it was just me on the court i was nervous I took my first shot it missed i had one more if i didnt make it I wouldnt get on the side, I shot it bounced off the ring hit the back board and went in we had won by one point.                                                                         

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on the 16 of May the first try outs were held. iwas going to attend it i was felling sick in the gut and nervous. The try outs started at 5:00 PM I turned up at 5:10 PM, I was late the coach did not like it he made me run laps of the court 30 times!!!! I did not feel like running anymore but I new I had to if I wanted to get on the team. The whole night all we did was run I did not stop all night, the coach and assistant coach cut 20 people out of 40 that night, I felt i was going to get cut from the side, luckily I didnt I got asked to come back and play a practice match.   

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On Tuesday the 3 may

I went down to the local courts to met up with the scout his name was Derik Fisher he was one of the scouts for a college side in Philidelphia. He said he liked my game and would like to see me play college ball and then go on and play for the Philidelphia 76ers it was a great opertunity to get out of the gang and move to a different city I had to think long and hard about leaving Miami, my home and my family just to try out for the side. i had thought long enough it was tim to make dissision, I decided to leave. I had to sell my house and get enough money to start a new life. The gang leader find out I was trying to leave, he told me if i didnt stay he would have to kill me (or probly get some one to do it for him) I started to get worried and thougt if that was what I really wanted, it wasnt so I left Miami before any one could see I was leaving, I had to catch 3 buses and a train to get to Philidelphia, I finally got there, it wasnt that great it looked just like Miami I had to catch one more bus to get to the basketball stadium (Staple stadium) were the scout was going to pick me up from. I was waiting for around 1/2 hour when he decided to turn up, I got in his car we drove for nearly 45 minutes, we started to drive through a really nice area where we stoped. Derik said ” this is were you will be living for the next few months” this was great news I was so excited.

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today was the day i was going to start turning my life around, i have a big basketball game at night it was my chance to show every one and tonight there was a scout from a college side in Philadelphia it was not who I wanted to play for but it was a way to get out and change my life.The game was good we won 108- 106 it was a tight game i scored 24 points, 12 assists, 7 blocks and 13 offensive rebounds. the scout noticed how i played he invited me to talk with him on tuesday 13 May 2008.  

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today i have to go to court at 10:30 for the murder of shop keeper Lambeth Hackmi, Lambeth came from a prison gang known as Aryan Brotherhood a white gang originated in California. It came to 10:30 and i was waiting for the witness to turn up, she didnt turn up so i was let off until the police could get in contact with her. I get a lift home with Henry Maine he is also in my street gang, he tells me on the way home that everything has been taken care of and I wont have to worry about the witness anymore, I start to get worried and start thinking that someone from Heat73 has killed her and ill get blaimed for it. On the news that night hear that the witness for my case has been murderd, I start thinking about how i can leave this gang before it gets out of control, The last person that tried to escape got killed before he got to start a new life, My phone rang about 10 minutes later it was Henry he said one of our rival gangs Big Circle Boys was coming down to fight, i did not want to fight i needed to start turning my life around i wanted to play college ball in Boston. The two gangs fought, 10 turned out dead from stabbing’s and gun shots and 25 people were injured 6 with serious injury.   

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Hi my name is Chris O’Neil,

 I live in Miami (USA) I’m in a gang known as heat73 some day i would like to get out of this gang and go and play college basketball in boston. The gang is in trouble with the law and the community, they dont care what they do, today i was made to shoot and kill a liquor store owner because he owed money to our gang. Unfortuanitly I did it and what was even worse there was a witness, the witness went strait to the police. Later that day around 7:00 there was a knock on my door, it was the police they arrested me, i had to go to the station. they would keep me locked up at the station until i was proven guilty or inicent.    

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