SSR 5

The book that i am now reading is " Can I Keep My Jersey?", by Paul Shirley. It is auto biography, So for in the story Paul is telling the story of his life and how his professional basketball career all started when he was just a small boy playing in his grave driveway with his brothers on their old junky hoop. In Paul's small hometown in Kansas were his house was on a intersection where the streets didn't even have a name. Paul also said he is going to tell how he was just an ordinary kid how happened to grow to be 6'10 and was very good at basketball. So far in the story Paul is summarizing what his life was like as a pro basketball player, not any pro basketball player. One that played on 11 teams, in 5 different countries, all in 4 years. Before he started his crazy short NBA career, Paul when to Iowa State University where he wasn't one of the stars on the team but he was one of the key contributors which led Iowa to back to back conference titles in his junior and senior years. The only reason he wanted to play basketball in collage was because he got a full ride academic scholarship, not an athletic so he got his collage degree for free. Paul never thought he was good enough to play Pro ball, he didn't think anything of it until graduation day of collage from Iowa State. Where he convinced himself with the help of his good friends to at least try to make it to the pros before he starts his long, real life working career. That's all i read up to, so far this book is very interesting, it makes me want to read more.


Joe Kamenske
Period 3