Family celebrates blind uncle scoring a goal

NAIROBI: A video of a blind man successfully putting a ball in the basket on the first go has become viral on social media. 

The video was shared by former basketball player Rex Chapman with the caption, “This family’s reaction to their blind Uncle hitting a free throw on his first try — is the Twitter content I’m here for.”

My uncle blind y’all, and made a free throw on his first try pic.twitter.com/aHYSFmm9Ri

— 乃ㄥ卂ᗪ乇 🔪 (@YoungBullBlade) May 28, 2019

The video shows a blind man surrounded by his family while he gets ready to free throw a basketball. The joy around this much-hyped throw is evident in the video as his entire family is ready with their phones out, recording the throw.  

Moreover, when he successfully throws the ball into the basket, his entire family gets into a frenzy in order to celebrate. The entire family can be seen jumping around and shouting in the video and the blind man smiling.

The video has already garnered over 7 million views, more than 5 lakh likes and 1 lakh retweets.