Begining - Entry to a New World

Year 2024 Planet Earth:

As Raine was watching a regular game of NBA basketball, he began thinking about what it would be like to have played with everyone that was on the screen. But that is very unrealistic he wasn't even able to stand with out crutches anymore.

During his time in College he was attacked by a group of gang members, who found out he was taking the gang leader's brother's playing time, crippling him leaving him there without any way to contact authorities.

But luckily after an hour he was found by a passer by who contacted the medical department. But the damage and time was too much and the doctor even pursuaded to get them amputated.

Raine refused as he was willing to rehabilitate and try and walk again and even try play basketball again.

After 2 week the college found out he was crippled and didn't want to waste a scholarship on Raine so they decided to cancel the scholarship for Raine.

This left Raine in even more dispare and even thought of Suicide however his family of mother and sister where his glue and didn't allow him to fall into darkness.

This lead to Raine being more willing to get back to his feet.

After few years and now 25 Raine was still needing crutches.

Sitting on the sofa he thought 'will I ever be able to walk properly again?'.

Just as this happened the screen previously showing the NBA suddenly turned off, making the room pitch black.

This scared Raine who began panicking just as he reached in the dark for his crutches the TV turned back on showing a College Basketball game.

What confused Raine most was the names of the colleges, The Astonishing University of Toronto and Ginkgo University, with one player looking identical to Raine himself,in a red jersey, in the lineup of Toronto University.

As the game began Raine could feel the atmosphere of the match it reminded him of the matches he played in college it was different from professional it had an aspect of youth and unwillingness to lose in front of peers in the university.

Raine on the TV began with dribbling the ball,wearing the large number 79, he drove towards the opposing player, wearing 77, as he began to crossover the ball flashes from his hand as he found his teammate 97 wide open who then placed the ball neatly into into the hoop.

Watching this Raine thought that the play style was very similar to his even identical.

As the game continued the two teams were neck and neck with the score at 90:88 to Toronto university and the time less than a minute Raine on the TV collected his 6th rebound of the match but that was the only good data he had,with only 4 assists and 0 points, he began a fast break with a head start he steamed ahead and as he entered the free throw line as he began to lay up he saw an arm fly into his face.

*SWOOSH*

Sweeping him mid air reminding

The Raine watching of the foul on Gary Payton II in the playoffs this caused him to stand weakly looking at the Raine on TV as unlike GP2 he seemed to have been knocked unconscious.

Raine watching this moved closer to the TV and as he touched the screen, the screen showed no resistance and he fell through.

As he was falling the light beneath collided with him and new memories that were similar however the history of the world was different Raine in this world also had only a mother and sister.

However what was different was the NBA didn't exist instead it was the ABA this switch is what lead to a world that was completely different with many key figures in NBA not showing up or being named differently.

As the light began to fade and the memories became linked the two Raines met the Raine from the TV who then hugged Raine and said

"look after them this time"

As they began to merge leaving Raine by himself to think 'It'll be different this time'.

2024 Parallel world:

Raine was woken by a sudden shock as water was poured on his head, "where am I?" He asked in confusion as he began to look around he found he was on a Basketball court one that was very familiar.

'The Game on the TV' he thought to himself.

He looked around to see the teammates and coach as well as the referee looking at him with concern as the referee asked "are you able to stand"

"Yes just a knock" Raine replied as he began to stand looking at his teammates that were concerned "I'm fine" which caused the relief to most the team except the player 93 Nile he seem disappointed that Raine was fine.

Raine noticed this and the new memories began to play Nile, 21, was the staring point guard but was injured before the season and has barely recovered leaving out of the Coach's rotation.

Having a bad experience with angry teammates Raine shivered at the thought 'I'll keep an eye out this time' as he immediately began to think about taking some MMA classes.

He sat down receiving a look from the Coach Joe "can you play the last minute" he asked

"Yes" Raine replied instantly even jumping off the seat causing a laughter to burst from the team around Raine which made him feel embarrassed but he still held firm eye contact with Joe.

Joe then Laughed "I won't replace you but if you make a mistake in the next play I'm subbing you out" he finished his sentance with a clear authorative tone making Raine respond in a salute "Yes Sir" this caused even more laughter with the coach smiling at the antics of Raine.

Joe then annouced the next play with the foul being an ejection and a free throw he hoped to be 3 point ahead almost providing a barrier to Ginkgo he hoped to prevent a three from being scored allowing them to enter the mid-range.

As the plan was Drawn out the buzzer went ending the timeout this caused the players to enter the court.