Knicks, Obi Toppin (Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images)
There is something familiar when I watch New York Knicks‘ rookie Obi Toppin play basketball.
I shudder to think about my first year of classroom teaching. At 22, I had spent the majority of my life inside a classroom. I knew what it meant to be a student and having watched my mom and multiple aunts, I had some idea of what it meant to be a teacher, but none of those instincts were visible.
All hesitation. All fear.
I see that same hesitation–that same fear–in Obi Toppin’s game.