Na'vi Allstars. Final Draft

My Name is Ebok and I am the Shooting guard for the Na’vi basketball team. The Na’vi people always had an interest in basketball ever since the Humans introduced the sport to us back home in Pandora. We had made peace after the horrid war that lead to the destruction of Home Tree. There are many humans that live on Pandora and there are just as many Na’vi natives living here on Earthy, we are able to live here as the humans kindly developed a breathing machine for us Na’vi to use which allows us to inhabit the planet. Basketball was the most popular human-engineered sport amongst the Na’vi people and we pleaded to have our places in the sport amongst the humans, that is, our own basketball team in the NBA. Eventually after many pleas and many forms of persuasion, Commissioner David Stern Jr. finally agreed to give us a shot. This is where our story begins and we had no idea of the challenge ahead of us.

I knew that this task would not be an easy one; the all-star team we faced was stacked with the best players in the league. Ranging from LeBron James all the way to Stephen Curry, these players were extremely skilled at the game and also had much more knowledge of the game than we did. We took the first two games no sweat but the humans came back with motivation to represent themselves as the top competitors of the sport and did they prove it.

They won the next three games by landslides, beating us by at least twenty or more points. We knew we had to come back with the same intensity they did in game six because if we lost this game, it would be the end of any Na’vi’s chances of ever playing in the NBA. At this point I realized, if they won the series doesn’t that mean that the match up of Na’vi vs. Humans in the game of basketball would be fair contest. So I went up to David Stern Jr. and said “If we lose this next game, doesn’t that mean that we can play in the league because it’s a fair contest between Humans and the Na’vi?” at which point Stern bluntly replied “Just wait ‘til the series is over.”
I stormed out of his office and made a huge Na’vi head shaped hole his door frame. I didn’t make an effort to duck because he didn’t make an effort to hear my plea.

Tip-off commenced and to my surprise us Na’vi had the ball. Possession wise, both teams had the ball for an equal amount of time. As for defense, they had the upper hand on us. As we were taller we had to bounce the ball quite high, which gave the opportunity for steal the ball and score many fast-break points. It was almost entertaining to see how fast the humans were able to race down to the other side of the court and how the players on the bench reacted every time a player would do a flash dunk or pass. Jake, our head coach, was yelling at us, saying that we needed to sharpen up and help each other out on the court. Jake had no idea how important the home court advantage was on this particular game, even though we had the upper hand in Height and Athleticism they still maintained to keep the scores leveled and hold the scores tied with their impeccable defense.

The score was 150-149 to us, there was six seconds left in regulation time and the ball was in our possession. Jake had told all of us that once the ball is in-bounded, just hold on to it and draw the foul or drain the time out. I had got open, I yelled for the pass and the ball started coming towards me. Time slowed down, I started imagining many of my fellow Na'vi playing in the beautiful game that is basketball and the humans and Na'vi growing closer together and accepting each other as equals and living in perfect harmony. This was when it happened, from the depths of the court, surging from the ground LeBron James Leaps almost to my height and snatches the ball from its pathway to my hands and to the Victory of the Na'vi Natives, He drove down the lane and did a 360-windmill-double-pump-no-look Slam dunk to win the game. Even though we lost, it was a beautiful defeat.

As my fellow team mates and I commenced our way to the locker room we received a standing ovation from the crowd and the players from the other team. I was in awe at this praise for failure; at this point I realized they were showing us praise for taking on the best players of the game and coming out proving that they were the better than a bunch of 10 foot aliens. Amongst the people that were applauding us was Commissioner David Stern Jr., he came up to me and shook my hand and told me to come with him to the centre of the court. He then said “On behalf of the NBA I would like to congratulate the Na’vi Super beings on their efforts in taking on the Best players in the NBA. This however was an unfair contest in my opinion, because we at the NBA care about the Na’vi instead of giving them a team in the NBA we have decided create an organization for the Na’vi to play basketball and we will call it the NBO, the Na’vi Basketball Organization. No further questions.”

I was stunned at the fact that he still said that it was an unfair contest of basketball when we clearly lost, before I could even question him about what he said he had already left. I saw the humans shoot around for a bit after all the commotion over the new league and I realized why Mr. Stern said that It was an unfair contest. When it comes to basketball, you just can’t beat the humans, enough said.