Basketball promotes camaraderie and sportsmanship, not only that, it is a team sport and there is no I in team. My love for the game started when I was young, not even when I was in Magallanes Village yet. My cousins and I started playing the game and even played in leagues during summer, in this research I am going to do, I would like to know more and assess myself, with the good and bad effects of basketball in youths, since I still belong in this category.
An article I found about this certain topic is written by Dan Peterson and it is called, "Bad Sports Behavior Starts in Youth," published in Live Science. He mentioned here a lot of young athletes, not only from basketball who shows bad behaviors, some were sensationalized by the media where in fact a lot of these things happen around the world. He said that these high contact sports are highly bad for the youth, even though that sports is cited as an antidote for delinquency, there are far more things that can affect youth, whether its their culture, environment and the media.
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I definitely disagree with what he said in the article for I have been playing the sport since I was a child, I look up to players like Kobe Bryant and Dirk Nowitski. For me, basketball specifically, makes the bond of teams stronger and builds friendship and