Book #3 Project (After the Shot Drops)
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- Wallace (on the right), Nasir's (on the left) cousin, needs money to pay his rent. His landlord has made the rent prices higher, and Wallace can't afford it. Wallace lives with his grandma, and doesn't want her to be sent to a retirement home and die. So he has turned to betting on high school games to get the money. Wallace asks Nasir, who used to be friends with Bunny, but isn't really because of an argument, to tell Bunny to sell an upcoming game (lose on purpose). This game is the state championship. Wallace has tried betting against Bunny in previous games, because he would get a ton of money if Bunny lost, but Bunny is too good. He hasn't lost a single game, and Wallace is in deep debt. Wallace is betting that Bunny will not win the upcoming game and is asking Nasir to make Bunny lose. Nasir is against doing this, but does it anyway.
- Uh... I'll see what I can do, Wallace.
- I need you to make Bunny lose the game. One more lost bet and me and Grandma are definitely getting evicted. I need the money!
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- Bunny doesn't want to lose on purpose. Wallace hates Bunny because Bunny transferred to a different school for basketball, and Wallace's school and Bunny's school are rivals. Bunny asks, "What has Wallace every done for me?" Nasir says that Bunny shouldn't do it for Wallace, and that he should do it for him, and their friendship instead. Bunny walks off without making a decision. (The dialogue in this frame is taken directly from the book)
- I need you to lose the game tomorrow.
- I hate that I am. But I am.
- Are you really pulling me into this, asking me to throw the game?
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- Bunny thinks about it, and ends up saying that although he doesn't care about Wallace, his and Nasir's friendship is more important to him that basketball. He hands Nasir a ticket and asks him to come watch him lose at the finals tomorrow. Nasir and Bunny are reunited by this. Their argument doesn't matter, and they are friends again. Bunny is going to stay over at Nasir's house tonight and then go to the finals with him tomorrow morning.
- Ok, I'll do it.
- What? You will?
- Bunny and Nasir have a great time. It's just like the "old days", as Nasir puts it. They play all the games they used to, and they both couldn't be happier. They both feel as if things are finally back to normal. Little do they know, things are about to be just the opposite of that.
- Now it's the championship. The game is heating up, and Bunny's the fire. But the ref is against him, and his team is down by 16 points. And although he agreed to lose, Bunny wants it to be close; this is a big game, he has to play well, because there will definitely be scouts. He just dunked on someone who was clearly moving, but the ref called it as a charging foul. (The dialogue in this frame is taken directly from the book)
- This is your warning, Twenty-Three. Calm down!
- You blind? He was moving!
- The game's over. Bunny's team won. He didn't mean to win, he just wanted it to be close. But in the heat of the moment, when he wasn't thinking, just doing, he made the winning play, passing it to his wide open teammate under the rim. And then they won. Everyone's as happy as can be, but the only thing Bunny is thinking is, What did I just do to Wallace?
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