Summer Ball

Mike Lupica
Popular Fiction
Pages 72-157

Danny and Ty arrive are driven from the airport to camp by a college player named Nick Pinto, who was also very short. When Danny and Ty saw the camp they thought it was basketball paradise. There was a lighted court everywhere you looked and a lake just out in the distance. The kids were broken into different bunks where they would stay for the rest of the month, Danny and Ty were suppose to be in the same bunk because Richie was able to call and arrange it, but they ended up mixing Danny's name up with another kid named Danny and he had to bunk with the littler kids. This wasn't to bad because Danny ended up meeting a kid who was feeling even worse then him, but was even shorter then he was. The kids name was Zach Fox and he said he didn't even want to be here and his parents forced him to come. He got so worked up he almost cried, but he left the room with his ball before he completely lost it. Danny followed Zach to the court were he started shooting the ball and dribbling it. Danny noticed that he was really good at handling the ball and lighting fast like him. When Zach shot his goofy shot Danny laughed because it looked like his shot when he was that age. Danny ended up playing Zach in one on one and really started to like the kid, Zach felt a lot better and looked up to Danny as his idol. In the distance he could see two guys watching him, Rasheed and Lamar. Rasheed was on the team that Danny beat in the 7th grade finals and was their stare player until he fail out on an offensive charge that Danny set. Rasheed already called him out earlier on it saying he could only flop and had no game. Lamar was a taller kid, who was an arrogant player, but probably the best at the camp, he yelled at them saying "look at the two midgets playing they should be using a girls ball." The next day Danny finds out he is on the same team as Rasheed and his coach is Mr. Powers a man who hold a grudge against his father from backing out of going to his college.

I believe that Danny and Rasheed are going to be competing against each other for most of the season and that in order to be successful they are going to have to play together as a team. Also, Mr. Powers might go harder on Danny because dislikes his father just like Mr. Ross did for most of the first book. I can't wait to get to read about them starting to play games and Danny playing Lamar's team.

I believe that Danny is going to have