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WASHINGTON — A child is waving his hands and shaking his head at Washington Wizards guard Jordan Poole while waiting in line.
In the middle of Poole’s free basketball clinic at the team’s practice facility in southeast Washington, the very small child — barely 3 feet tall — is clearly talking trash to the former NBA champion. While I sit a few hundred feet away, I can make out that the child is boasting about what he’s about to do in the upcoming drill, which is focused on off-ball movement and finishing.
When it’s finally the camper’s turn to go, he quickly drops the trash talk, sprints from his spot on the baseline towards the top left of the key, stutter steps and turns his body as he shifts to a spot beyond the 3-point line, where he receives a pass from a counselor.
As the camper beelines toward the basket, another counselor is waiting to contest the basket. The camper — in a white T-shirt, all-white Nike shorts with a giant black swoosh across the front, white and orange Nike sneakers and a faded haircut that mirror’s Poole’s — quickly pivots his body for a Euro step, perhaps taking one extra step, contorts his small body in the air and releases. The ball hits front rim and slides through the net.
