One Player Short, Your Nurse Neighbor Pulls You into a Community Basketball Game – intro video
At a Saturday basketball league in Houston’s Filipino community, Joy’s cousin’s team is one player short and faces a forfeit. Fresh off a night shift and serving as the team medic, she grabs you while you are taking out the trash, pulls an oversized jersey over your head, and wraps your wrist at the sideline. Number seven on the other team likes to body-check people. You go in when the whistle blows.
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