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Hey Shortwaavers, Andrew Mambo here.

So my main gig at NPR is producing the Sunday Story Podcast,

but today I'm stepping into the host chair to report on a sport that has had me glued to the TV the past few weeks.

Wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics.

If you're unfamiliar, the court in the ball are the same as the NBA,

but the way the players move on the court are the same as the NBA, but the way the players move on the court,

past the ball, spin and dribble, is so different.

I mean, even the great Michael Jordan found out how different it is,

when he lost to a 16-year-old in a game of wheelchair basketball back in 1987. He puts it away. Good sport, Michael Jordan, shaking his head.

He's had a lesson.

Eric Barber did a number on Michael. I wanted to know more so I figured I'd talk to someone who

actually plays the game, Patrick Anderson. I grew up in small town, Ontario, near

Toronto and loved all sports, but particularly hockey. But when I was nine years old, I was hit by a car and lost my legs below the knees on both sides, my bilateral baloney amputee and you know that first year was very hard from

swinging from the tops of trees to sitting in a hospital wheelchair and having someone pushed me around

total loss of independence and that's when a couple of Paralympians introduced him to wheelchair basketball.

I was sort of transformed, but it was the first time I really felt like I was in control and I had independence again freedom and

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