Then Preet missed a three-pointer, and the ball came to Greg and all of Greg's former teammates were all over him. Towards the end of practice, Patel handed out the team's uniforms which was recycled from tryouts and had a sponsor that was closed for code violations. He is a six-time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award winner for 'Favorite Book' and has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Due to the custodial staff having to take care of lunch, the principal is forced to give everyone the day off.

After that they started running a full-court press and they were blocking Greg's team from passing the ball and everytime there was a rebound, the Slacksville center would steal the ball.

After the game ended Susan said that Patel should've run different plays and that Greg should've gotten more playing time. Greg wonders how sports got started in the first place, and thinks sports is just a way to settle things without needing a war. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot is the sixteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Ruby Bird now has 2 front teeth, unlike her previous appearance in The Third Wheel, where she only had 1 front tooth. After that, Susan told Greg and his teammates that they will be playing until they win which made Greg shocked.

Susan explains that some food advertisements are misleading and says that people such as Chef Marinara is probably just an actor. Greg remembers a time where he threw a balled-up napkin that landed Justin White's empty milk glass which the whole cafeteria went crazy over and turned lunch into a nightmare where kids would try to re-create Greg's shot.Patel and one of the guys on the team started to argue about the time they booked the gym but then Patel came up with a solution: Play a game against them and whoever won would have the court. The team started with dribbling drills then passing but because of all the tables, half of the team had to practice on the stage that was set up for a kindergarten play. He attempts to go the gym with his father Frank, but they are both kicked out due to Greg making too much noise. The clock was ticking down, with the Winter Dogs being 2 points ahead, Greg looked at Susan and she didn't look like she was rooting for him. On Twitter, Jeff Kinney said that he was working on both Book 15, now known as The Deep End, and 16 both at the same time, and book 15 was finished.

After a disastrous competition at school, Greg decides that he's officially retired from ANY kind of sport! Greg states a flashback that he's only been to one professional sports game in his lifetime, when Frank took him to the city to watch a football game. Susan rented a big van and told everyone that there's a chance that they may be playing for more than one day but everyone overpacked such as Yusef packing two loaves of bread and a bunch of supplies for sandwiches and a backpack filled with chocolate-covered raisins. Bosh is worried about, because they have a lot of athletes, and she also is worried that some adults are going to compete in field day. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he’s officially retired.Greg was playing video games and hoping that Susan would forget about him joining sports but despite him telling her that sports will be replaced by e-sports in the future, she pressured him which made him decide which sports that he wanted to play. In a response to a fan letter, he confirmed that he was writing both a fifteenth and sixteenth book. He says that the reason why Plainview hates the surrounding towns is because they always destroy them in sport and the town that they hate the most is Slacksville.