Like the Eminem song, “if you had one shot, one opportunity, one moment, would you capture it or just slip it away?” 17-year-old high school senior Jason McElwain had one such opportunity and siezed the moment for all it’s worth.
Fuck Rudy, “J-Mac†just 1-Up’d the feel-good story department. Imagine: you’re the team manager for your high school basketball team for all four years. Last game of regular season. With four minutes left and your team up by double-digits, the coach calls for you to go into the game. What do you do? McElwain took the rock and went boku wild: six 3-point shots, 20 points total.
Think about that: his total high school playing career, 4 minutes. And it’s not a minute at the end of one game and another minute at the end of another: one chance to play. Oh yeah, and he’s autistic.
His stats are Reggie Miller-esque. If you’re still player-hatin’, watch the clip and judge for youself (click on the “Related Video†window). NOTE: I apologize for the clip’s sappy, near NBC-level melodramics, but the segment is short and the actual game footage is And1-worthy material.
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