KALEB WILSON - Player/Assistant, Brookline High School
State Championship - 4th Quarter
Statline: 22 PTS, 12 AST, 7 REB
Score: Brookline 61, Catholic Memorial 61
0:08 Remaining
The air in the TD Garden was a solid thing, thick enough to chew. Every breath Kaleb took felt like a conscious effort. The bright lights were no longer intimidating; they were illuminating a stage he had earned the right to stand on. Eight seconds separated him from immortality or heartbreak.
The Championship game against Catholic Memorial had been a forty-minute masterpiece of high school basketball. It was a back-and-forth affair, a game of runs and counter-runs, of individual brilliance and team execution. Kaleb had been the maestro, conducting the symphony he had helped compose. He'd hit clutch threes, threaded impossible passes, and quarterbacked a defense that had bent but refused to break.
