I used to play, but only cause it was fun. I wasn't that good lol, but I stepped up in a few games. 8th grade was my last season. I figured it wouldn't be fun this year and I needed a break anyway. The way our basketball team worked in our middle school years was...we had no coaching and we played with a lot of laughs. We weren't a serious team by any stretch. Last year, though, we were the #4 team in our league of 12, which is pretty good for being the smallest school. Yeah, that #3 team thought they were the shit, beating us by 1-3 points every time we played them. No exaggeration. And the 1 and 2 teams were stacked beyond belief. We were the team of semi-talented clowns. It was fun while it lasted. It lasted until the playoffs when the #5 team beat us. Ahh well. Cool story bro?