“I’ve never had my own ball to shoot with before,” he explained happily. While the other handful of lucky kids surely went home and put theirs in places of honor, this boy had already dribbled, shot and worn off Ceballos’s valuable signature.Ĭurious, I asked the boy why he hadn’t taken the ball straight home. But what really touched me was this: As I left the gym, I saw the boy outside shooting baskets on one of the blacktop courts. One lucky recipient, a boy about eleven years old, hugged Ceballos and then hugged the ball. At the end of the event, Ceballos-then playing for the Los Angeles Lakers-handed out half a dozen autographed basketballs. A number of years ago, NBA All-Star Cedric Ceballos hosted a free basketball clinic for a couple hundred youngsters.
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