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A Kentucky teenager is proving to be the secret weapon on his high school basketball team, despite having been born with no legs.

Josiah Johnson, 13, decided in the fall to try out for the Moore Middle School basketball team in Louisville, Kentucky.

He was accepted, on merit, and is now the toast of the team.

'He started taking the ball from people,' one of his teammates told CBS News.

'He took the ball from me. I was mad. You would have thought Steph Curry was in the gym.'

Johnson could have played in his wheelchair, but he said doing so would have been too easy.

'He made the team - we didn't put him on the team for no sympathy reasons or anything like that,' said one coach.

'He showed up to every trial, he gave it his all. He put himself on the team by making the squad.'

As a child, Johnson took part in gymnastics, but said basketball was his love.

His mother, Whitney, said that Josiah was confident, and stubborn.

'Josiah is very competitive, and if he feels like something is too easy, he's not going to do it,' she said.