Sunday, 14 February 2016

Zhangsanity




Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, Michael Jordan, David Hailu Zhang, Jeremy lin, Lebron James, Steve Nash, Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin Durant; what do they all have in common? They all share a love for basketball. But seriously, which one of these stand out? King James? Kobe? How about David H. Zhang. What do the rest of these famous basketballers have in common? They all started somewhere, and that somewhere is where we find David today.

David is an avid basketballer, and he takes after his idols like any young kid should. He’s certainly energetic, funny, modest, but above all he is the humblest guy you will meet. Seriously. It gets annoying at times when one of the most skilled basketballers in the school says he won’t make the school team, but he always knows he isn’t the best and will always do whatever to help me or you out whenever we ask for help.

As opposed to what most of you probably think, David didn’t start playing at a very young age, he only started recently. About 4 years ago he started to play basketball at an organized level, he also made the highest level, for an older age group. To sum it all up, he was very good at basketball to start with but where did that love for basketball come from?  David was a part of a big following called “Linsanity”. Jeremy Lin is an Asian American basketballer who took the NBA by storm and created this large following which inspired David to finally take up organized basketball.

That year was the year I met David Zhang, well, actually 2. Grade 4 was the start of middle French immersion and kids from all around the area went to W.E.J to take part in the program. One thing so many people were surprised about was there were 2 David Zhangs, it was also confusing. We decided This David will be known by his middle name: Hailu. The next year he surprisingly went to a new school: Broadview. He enrolled in the gifted program there and spent grades 5 through 7 at his new school.

September of 2015, David changed schools once again, finally ending up at the Earl of March secondary school for grade 8 and is in my class. Some day he may start up the “Zhangsanity” but for now, he’s still David Hailu Zhang playing AAA baskeball and going to grade school



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