Miles of heart: Born without legs, makes the basketball team anyway

Technically, 13-year-old Josiah Johnson has a disability. But almost no one sees it, because he doesn’t see it.

Although born without legs, he has yet to find his Kryptonite. He always did everything the other kids did. But that invincibility was put to the test last fall when Johnson decided to try out for the one sport where altitude is everything — the Moore Middle School basketball team in Louisville, Kentucky.

At this point you may be wondering, why doesn’t he just join a wheelchair basketball team? It would certainly be a lot easier. Exactly, Johnson said.

“It was easy,” he said. “It was too easy.”