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Basketball as an Outlet

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So we live in a generation people, you know, they escape to social media or substance abuse or god for things that are worse than that. Person has to look to put to put the pain somewhere. Yeah. Like an outlet. An outlet. So basketball was my outlet. So one day I'm playing basketball. I was getting very aggressive, angry, not really knowing where it's coming from. I don't know how to place it. I had a channel. So I'm playing basketball and I tell the kid, you know, I probably missed a shot. Missed a shot. I said, "I'm going to kill you." Just I I was probably upset at the kid. Maybe he pushed me or something. I'm going to kill you. By us, that's like a normal thing you say. You tell the guy I'm going to kill you. You know, it's a normal thing. I'll kill you. Oh wow. He thought I was going to kill him. Oh wow. So he went to the man and he said, "Look, Mo Proctor says he's going to kill me." Oh my gosh. He's going to kill me. Now the man took me into his office, sat me down. And to those viewers who know of uh who like basketball, into basketball, who know there was something called Malice at the Palace. You can look it up. Malice at the Palace, which was when the two basketball teams were playing against each other. This was, I think, the early 2000s, where the players got so heated that the game went into the stands and they started, you know, and fans started throwing beers and food at the players and they started punching. It was not much a crazy brawl. And so this manal showed me a clip of this brawl, of this fight. Wow. Probably to calm me down, to give me a little a little smile and say it's okay. But probably trying to, you know, to to get that point inside of me, you know, that I'm feeling aggression. I'm feeling it's so like you have a place for it. Like it's real. It's okay. I understand it.