PROLOGUE: ‘Let There Be Light’

Scripture teaches God said: “Let There Be Light”, thereafter, there was light.  We can debate as to how light appeared on earth, but there is no doubt that it appeared and remains here today as a necessary source of life.

Can the same not be argued about the sport of basketball.  James Naismith proclaimed it to be a sport.  Did God not grant that proclamation.  Didn’t basketball grow globally to the extent that it can’t be eradicated from earth.

The game of basketball remains here today on every corner of earth.  Its been my experience that there is a basketball hoop in every city, town, and country I have visited. on five different continents.

After the game was proclaimed  ‘Let There Be Basketball’,  what happened thereafter.  How did basketball appear, on every part of the world.  It remains a globally popular sport today. 

It started somewhere, from something … … it starts from the actions of people.  This Book I is about one of those people who proclaimed there must be basketball and all that comes with it in my life for as long as it be granted by power of what created the sport. 

… … WAS BASKETBALL ORDAINED WITH A ‘MANIFEST DESTINY’ TO THE WORLD.   …. IS IT ORDAINED WITH MANIFEST DESTINY YO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS IN LIFE.

How did the game of basketball come into existence, and how did it grow into the version of the game we have today.  How did it manifest itself in the past into those who loved the game.  This Book begins to answer those questions in one individual’s basketball experiences.

In this Book One I, the first of a trilogy, we address what happened to a young man from Indiana immediately after he proclaimed: Please God, let there be basketball in my life.

The desire granted, the response, “YES,  YOU SHALL PLAY BASKETBALL!” Go forth young man play until you are a man of great experience.  We start here in the beginning, when the journey  started and take you decades down the path.

We introduce you to the young years of the Author, Christopher Lee Winans,  under  pseudonym,  Doctor Dunkenstein, and the early years resulting in his destiny to play the game of basketball from the age of 10,  into his high school years,  then at the NCAA College level, and eventually as a professional in Europe and South America.

This digital Website: ‘Michael & The Cricket’,  we present in Book II, ‘The Cricket’, Victor Wembanyamt and his early basketball career. 

In Book III is a look at the author’s experience with the early career, before he was MJ,  of Michael Jordan and his pursuit to be the best to have ever played.  We combine the author’s personal stories of these individuals with  a large accumulation of stories about basketball players, coaches, teams, games, practices, international travel,  grand pianos in hotel lobbies, and living life while playing the game for an education and for money. 

It is narrated by a former professional basketball player of little and diminishing re-known, now into his elderly years.  The purpose of this undertaking is not to glory days gone by or  provoke self recognition. It serves as a testament to … … that if you love to do something in life, you should pursue it.  With a little support from many great people, a relentless determination and pursuit, and a few prayers to the Almighty, you just might have your dreams come true. 

Take your best shot at your love in life!   Hopefully, it will seve to motivate  young individuals to pursue their goals.  

Book I: ‘Let There Be Light’

‘Michael & The Cricket’