The Crossover

"In this game of life / your family is the court / and the ball is your heart. / No matter how good you are, / no matter how down you get, / always leave / your heart / on the court" (20)

This is one of Dad's basketball rules, and it resonates throughout the entire text. Dad uses basketball terms to say that the game is life and the court is your family: no matter how hard things are, you need to remember to always "stay" in your family because that is where you belong. By the end of the text, Alexander has ably borne out this metaphor that family is everything.