Yeah, Right, Whatever

I saw this on FoxNews last night. I didn't hear the audio, so I didn't realize the importance of the high school kid sinking some shots. Now I know different.

Senior Jason McElwain had been the manager of the varsity basketball team of Greece Athena High School in Rochester, N.Y.

McElwain, who's autistic, was added to the roster by coach Jim Johnson so he could be given a jersey and get to sit on the bench in the team's last game of the year.

Johnson hoped the situation would even enable him to get McElwain onto the floor a little playing time.

He got the chance, with Greece Athena up by double-digits with four minutes go to.

And, in his first action of the year, McElwain missed his first two shots, but then sank six three-pointers and another shot, for a total of 20 points in three minutes.

OK... take out the fact that Jason is autistic, and let's just look at the rest of the facts. Jason was the team manager... which means he filled water bottles and didn't do lay-ups during practice. He taped ankles, not shot free-throws. So, after spending the entire season NOT practicing, the coach puts him in (in a Rudy kind of way.) So, he gets the ball, and shoots an air-ball (go figure). Then he missed a lay-up (happens to everyone, right?) THEN... he ends up shooting 7 for 9, 6 of them 3 pointers. How many other kids on that team made 20 points in the game, much less in 4 minutes? The fact that Jason is a high-functioning austistic is just... icing on the cake.

His classmates and teammates love him, he is the media's feel-good story for right now, and Disney wants to talk to his parents about a movie. Because of 4 minutes in his first varsity basketball game. Not bad, Jason... not bad at all.