It took a freak injury for Joel Freeland, pictured, to give up his football dreams, a broken leg and two weeks in hospital was enough to turn the teenager away from one game into another.
He was 17 when he picked up a basketball for the very first time, ploughing the pocket change accrued from a part-time job in his local Sainsbury's into supporting his new habit and a regular commute to his nearest club in his native Hampshire.
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