Bailey just finished her first season of girls b-ball. She played in a girls 3rd/4th grade league. She got lucky and had a great coach - a former college basketball player himself. The coach had them doing tons of plays and was going crazy with the b-ball whiteboard at every time-out.
Bailey really liked the social aspect of this game...goofing around with her friends on her team and the opposing teams. She didn't care too much about the competitive part of it until...the last 2 games when Mike decided to make things a little bit interesting...
Money Talks!!!
Mike told Bailey he would pay her 5 bucks (Singapore dollars) for every basket she scored and 2 bucks for every rebound or steal. Suddenly Bailey woke up to the game of basketball! She finally took her first shots and actually scored a basket in the last 2 games. I had to leave the game where she scored her first basket (Jack had a dirty diaper conveniently) but my friend sent me a text saying, "Bailey just scored a basket!" I was in tears! I remember those feelings of scoring a basket for the first time in a game. It really is one of the best feelings out there. Apparently Bailey's smile could have lit up the barges of the Brother of Jared with how brightly it gleamed after that basket.
Bails ended up with $20 and then another $18 for the last 2 games of the season.
After the last game the coach awarded her the "Play Me" award b/c she was the kid on the team who was constantly asking the coach to put her in the game and was mad when he took her out. Way to go Bails!
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