When my family and I moved to the United States, my eldest son had never played or seen a game of basketball. He was not even that interested in sports. But on arrival, he was invited to join a neighborhood recreational team. That opportunity awakened a love for the game that then became his passion until he went to university. As it turned out, being a serious basketball player in North Carolina is not a trivial matter. It structured much of his life, including how he experienced school, our town, the intersections of gender, class, and race, as well as his own physical development. However, there was neither an identity nor a way of acting as a basketball player that was somehow hidden inside him waiting to jump out.
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