never give up
David likes basketball. He is reading an article about retired NBA player Spider Webber. The following is the article.
The shortest player in the National Basketball Association.
Sparta Weber 1963 was born in Deco, USA.
He is short, much shorter than other children in school. However, he has a big dream. He wants to play in the National Basketball Association.
When he was in junior high school, Spade participated in the selection of the school team.
But he was rejected from the beginning because he was too short. He didn't lose heart. When he finally got the chance, he scored 20 points in the first game. Since then, he has become the star of the team.
When he was in high school, Spade couldn't because of his height.
Not often sitting in the stands. He trained harder and made the coach change his mind. Spader went on and became the captain of the team. In his last year of high school, he was named "Texas Player of the Year".
However, no university is willing to invite him to play basketball, just because he is only 170 cm tall. He decided to play in a university. There, he led his team to win the national championship. This attracted the attention of North Carolina State University. So he won the prize successfully.
Scholarship.
Although he is an excellent player in college, the National Basketball Association is not interested in him because all its players are more than 20 centimeters taller than him. After graduation, he was forced to play in another basketball league. He stayed there for about a year before the National Basketball Association noticed him.
1985 joined Atlanta Hawks and became the shortest player in the National Basketball Association at that time. He has many great achievements, but his proudest moment was winning the slam dunk contest in 1986. Through hard work, Spade and Weber proved that it doesn't matter whether you are tall or thin. As long as the water doesn't give up, there is almost nothing you can't do.