By Chinua Obaze
| Chinua Obaze was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin
Wall. At that time he had no idea what he would do when he grew up. And he
didn’t really care. As Chinua grew up he started to take an interest in
basketball, every time a game was on he would jump at the chance to watch
it.
When he went to school and he heard there would be a basketball
team he signed up right away. His hero was Michael Jordan. Every time he
thought of basketball he thought of Michael. Just as the commercials said,
he wanted to be like Mike.
After Chinua finished college, he was signed by the L.A. Lakers. He
believed the day he started playing in the NBA to be the best day of his
life. As a player for L.A. Lakers he was so good, he became a very
successful player and made a lot of money. However, Chinua didn’t really
care about the money, all he cared about was playing the game he loved.
The moral of this article is that money isn’t everything.
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