Lindsay's+tale


 * __Never Give Up __**
 * Donnell has grown up being in love with everything to do with basketball and The LA Lakers team. Since he grew up in the small town of Henderson and was the big man on the court at his high school, he thought he would be an automatic in onto his favorite NBA basketball team. Instead of practicing as much as his best friend Lucas did, who had also dreamed of becoming a part of the LA Lakers team since he was seven years old, Donnell decided he would just take it easy until the time of the draft pick in August 2013. From the day of June 13 when Lucas and Donnell graduated from high school Lucas played basketball all day and night and devoted his life to anything that would better his game all the while Donnell spent time with his friends doing whatever he pleased and not taking his future in basketball as seriously as he should. **


 *  Well when the draft finally comes around on August 8, 2013 Donnell thought he still had all his skills and Lucas was sure he still had his skills. All the guys selected for the draft had already been picked by a team except Donnell and Lucas. It was down to only those two, and The Lakers was the only team that needed one more player. The Laker’s Coach had remember how both the boys played in high school, and thought they were really good, so he made Lucas and Donnell play a face off game against one another to see who got the last draft spot. The face off game would be to five. The game was on the hill and Lucas already had four points before Donnell could manage to even get one point, then Lucas scored the game winning point and by doing so he secured his spot on The LA Lakers while Donnell was left with no team. **


 *  On the contrary to what everyone thought Donnell would do he decided to go ahead and start training and practicing for next years draft pick, because he realized that while he was hanging out with his friends during the summer he should have been training for the draft and focusing on his future career in basketball. **


 *  As august 2014 rolled around, Donnell was very confident with his training and he had no doubt that he would get picked this year by the Lakers. On the day of the draft The LA Lakers picked Donnell first for their team and the first new player in the 2014 NBA draft. **
 * moral: If at first you don't succeed, try again. **