The benefits of Basketball

I played basketball for 13 years, I started when I was 6 but unfortunately I had to stop last year because I needed to dedicate myself to college completely. During High School, it is not very hard to play basketball while making good grades. However, college is a different matter, the amount of work that college requires, makes it almost impossible to make good grades while playing sports. As almost all sports, to play basketball has great benefits for one's health. In order to keep up with the practices and play in the games, one has to give it all every practice. Consequentially, working hard every practice produces greats results for one's health. Moreover, basketball has other kind of positive results that are not always visible for those who do not play it. In order to play good basketball and win, a team has to work together. All the players, have to not only work towards the same goal but work together to achieve it. Every player has to completely trust his/her teammates and be able to help them every time they need. Basicly, everyone has to have each other backs because one game one person my be playing bad and need a lot of help from the teammates. However, in the next game that person might have an amazing game and help all the team. That is why teammates have to be there for the other teammates' good and specially bad moments. When this happens, your team almost feels like your family. To look around during the practice and see that everyone is working as hard as they can in order to achieve the same goal as you, gives you an amazing feeling that cannot be explained.
In conclusion, everyone that has enough free time should play basketball because it will benefit you in many ways. Basketball has great benefits for one's health because a lot of physical exercise. Furthermore, basketball teaches you something that will help you through all your life. To play basketball teaches you that with teamwork you are able to achieve many thing, that you would not be able to achieve working by yourself. Through basketball, people learn not only to work with other people but to trust others. This is not only a very important thing in life, but a very hard thing to learn and through basketball you can learn it. That is why if you are lucky enough to have time in your life to play basketball in a team, you should do it because you would surely benefit a lot from it.