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...sports memory that will stick in my mind most, however, is not a Boston sports memory but a Belmont sports memory. I will always remember Asa Palmer's dunk against archrival Lexington during my junior year in high school...
Those statistics were nothing next to Asa Palmer's performance. I don't remember how many boards Asa grabbed or how many points he scored. I just remember the dunk--his first ever in a game--and how it brought the house down...
Although he routinely dunked in practice, Asa had tried to dunk twice before in a game and had been unsuccessful. Against Burlington during our sophomore year in a game that I am sure Harvard baseball's Denny Doble remembers, Asa found himself alone under the basket with Belmont desperately trying to make a comeback. Asa tried to dunk but missed, smashing the ball off the back...
...tried to dunk a second time, against Wakefield, early in our junior season. On a turnaround post move, Asa found himself staring right at the basket with no one guarding him. Seeing a rare opportunity, Asa went up for the jam. The ball rattled around the rim for what seemed like an eternity before dropping through the cylinder...
...names from the team is removed, long after the trophics are removed from the trophy case, long after I forget that we even won a state championship, I will remember the lasting friends I made on that team. I will the remember little moments--Asa's first dunk, for example--that have special significance...