Down there, basketball is the big thing. Some of my friends that I've known since kindergarten are still playing.

I didn't start playing until I was 12, but I didn't get really serious until I was in high school.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Basketball is his life. But since the accident, he's a different person. He knows what his friends mean to him. Life means more to him because it was almost taken away.

I moved from Florida when I was younger, and sports, especially basketball, were a good way to make friends. I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan, so that had a lot of influence on me.

We're really good friends. We used to go out all the time in the middle of winter and play (basketball) with our gloves on.