When my older sister joined the junior high basketball team, my dad bought her Larry Bird’s book, Bird on Basketball. In it, Bird said he began each day by shooting 500 jump shots. Then he would go to the free-throw line and shoot free throws until he hit 99 in a row.
This blew my nine-year-old mind. I wasn’t sure I’d even shot a basketball 500 times in my entire life. How did he do it 500 times a day?
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