“As sisters, we fight, like any sisters do, but I think it feels good to play with my younger sister. I can tell we’re improving on the court together, and it shows since we both made the All-Star list and get to travel. Sometimes when our parents leave town for a while, they make us stay to guard the house from thieves. When they tell us we can’t go to practice, we feel sick. It’s our dream to be better players than the boys. We don’t want them to look down on us. We want to be better than them. Our hope is to crossover dribble and break a boy’s ankles. One day.”

Noella and Shyaka — 16, 14 years old