Close your eyes for a moment, clear your mind of the thousands of daily concerns, and take a mental journey...

What do you see? Does this remind you of the twelve or thirteen-year-old child? Yes, you are not mistaken, it is you. You who stands in the middle of a concrete court, you who tie the laces of your new shoes with reverence, you who hear the sound of the basketball like the most beautiful melody in your ears.

Keep your eyes closed; only then will the images from an invisible album continue to pass before you like photographs: Your first time attending a basketball game; the moment you saw, even from a distance, those heroes – whom until then you admired on television – performing their magic and you wondered if they were human.

And then you dreamed that you were the one wearing the number 6 jersey, the 5, the 7, or the 23. You were the one who scored the winning basket in a packed arena with thousands cheering you on, and you became part of history.

Because every moment when a child anywhere in the world "drops" the ball for the first time, the story of basketball is rewritten from the beginning.

So let's remember it...