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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 3900054, member: 7548"] Fantastic friendship. . I also see where she got her desire to never be benched Consider a game in which Bueckers ... [I]was in second grade[/I]. She was already playing with kids a few grades older because she'd been too good to play with those her own age. Her dad, Bob, was filling in as coach. It was overtime and they were down by a couple of buckets, and Bueckers was on the bench. So Bob did what any coach would do -- he put in his best player. But there was a problem: This was a rec-league game -- and rec-league rules stipulated that every kid was required to play even time. And, of course, Bueckers had already maxed out. Bob had no idea. The opposing coach flagged down the refs. "You can't do that!" he said. [B]So Bob pulled his daughter out of the game. She went over to the bench, tears in her eyes. "I need to be in the game," she said.[/B] [/QUOTE]