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Awesome Sportsmanship: High School Basketball Player Gives Ball to Opposing Team Member Who Is Mentally Challenged to Make the Final Basket


 
 26 Feb 2013   Awesome, Heartwarming, Sports, Video, Youtube

All the feels with this one!

Mitchell Marcus is team manager for the basketball team at Coronado High School in El Paso, Texas. He doesn’t play for the team because of his disabilities, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s Coach Peter Morales’ favorite on the team or his love for the game.

In one of the final games of the season, Coach Morales decided to let Mitchell suit up and play in the last few minutes, hoping that Mitchell would score a basket, with no care at all whether they won or lost. Unfortunately, with his team members passing him the ball every time, it didn’t look like the game was going to go in Mitchell’s favor until, with only a little bit of time left, opposing team member Jonathon Montanez of Franklin High School did something amazing. He called out Mitchell’s name and threw him the ball, letting him score the final basket, despite Montanez’s team losing by 15 points.

“I was raised to treat others how you want to be treated,” Montanez told CBS News. ”I just though Mitchell deserved his chance, deserved his opportunity.”

And that, my friends, is what real sportsmanship looks like.

 

via cbsnews, reddit

 


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  • http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackWyrmDesigns TrillianDW

    Gaaaah, all the feels!!

  • Conspiracy Einstein

    Here’s your headline: “Scranton Area Paper Company, Dunder Mifflin, Apologizes to Valued Client; Some Companies Still Know How Business is Done.”

  • Missin’ Mississippi

    Awwwww. That made me cry.

  • http://dailyoftheday.com/ Lascivious Lass

    Aww, video is gone now. I wanna see!!
    Edit: Found it, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/mitchell-marcus-special-needs-teen-basketball-game_n_2766354.html

    • Bling-Nye, the Daft Punk guy

      Went for the video, stayed for Anne Hathaway’s nipples. Those show stealers.

      • http://dailyoftheday.com/ Lascivious Lass

        I clicked on that too. : D

      • DRoseDARs

        ♫”We saw your boobs!”♫

  • Dayner

    I love the support for Mitchell. That was amazing to watch.

  • http://robvincent.net/ Rob T Firefly

    If more sports stuff was like this I could actually get to like sports stuff.

  • Patrik

    Um, did he heckle that other guy after scoring? Looks like he blocked him and shouted something. Would be ironic.

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