Courts of Dreams

… on the eve of the annual “senior night” game - held in the students’ final year of high school - the team’s coach handed J-Mac, as he is known, a shirt with 52 sewn on the back, having told him he would try to get him into the all-important game at some point. Come the final few minutes, Jason was duly sent onto the court. As his team-mates fed him the ball, Jason calmly took aim and made seven hoops from 13 shots, scoring five points a minute and breaking school records. Athena beat their rivals Spencerport by 79-43. At the final whistle, spectators carried Jason off the court on their shoulders. (Telegraph.co.uk)

Fortunately for J-Mac, his basketball triumph was captured on film and sent about the Internet until it eventually reached the sports cable network ESPN, making the autistic teenager the national hero that he is today. Film companies, publishers, basketball superhero “Magic” Johnson, and even Oprah Winfrey are now bidding for his attention.

When Jason McElwain entered the game and immediately flubbed the first basket, his coach prayed. That prayer was answered seven times thirteen, as the young autistic student of Monroe County, New York made headlines by scoring twenty points in four minutes at his high school basketball game. The unlikely teen-age champion, J-Mac, has even become a hero to President George W. Bush who traveled to New York to present him with an award. If you missed the heart-warming story, “RofaSix” has posted the video of the basketball game in which the young man starred. WATCH!