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♪ Hoop dreams ♪
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[Announcer] And welcome to
the 38th annual NBA All-Star game...
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A standing-room-only crowd.
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A steal by Jordan.
He spun it away from the Mailman.
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[Announcer #1] And the chances
of a West comeback are slipping away.
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Right now, I wanna, you know,
play in the NBA...
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like anybody else would wanna be.
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That's who -
That's something...
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I dream and think
about all the time -
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He's just doing something
that he loves so much.
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He just love it so much.
I'm just happy for him.
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If somebody can understand
the way William play...
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that'll make me feel
a lot better.
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The way they should have
understood the way I played.
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[Game Announcer] This Chicagoan
is making his seventh All-Star appearance.
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When I get in the NBA...
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the first thing I'm gonna do...
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I'm gonna see my mama,
I'm gonna buy her a house...
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I'm gonna go there and make sure
my sister and my brother's okay.
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Probably get my dad...
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[Woman]
Something real long.
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[Father]
Dominique! Ooh!
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[Woman]
He dreams about it.
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He look at those basketball commercials...
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where they be advertising
these Nike shoes?
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He'll tell his little, small brother...
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I don't even think about it,
if he don't make it.
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Just 'cause I'm so -
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♪ By the time we hit the courts
Roll hard, you know, squad up ♪
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♪ I'm just a young man with a dream
but the streets continue to test me♪
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♪ Like a full-court press, G
I ain't even tryin' to hear that though ♪
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♪ 'Cause gonna make it automatic
like a free throw ♪
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♪ See, in my neighborhood
the streets are law, but not for me ♪
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♪ And I will never let the hood
destroy my dreams ♪
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- ♪ Hoop dreams ♪
- ♪ Where dreams are made or broken ♪
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- ♪ Hoop dreams ♪
- ♪ One in 100,000 fulfill this dream ♪♪
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I'm off to Central...
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and the Congress Expressway -
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a park over there where there are
some pretty talented young men.
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[Narrator] Earl Smith works downtown
as an insurance executive.
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On weekends he's an unofficial talent scout
for several area high schools.
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This is the job
of most of your freshmen coaches...
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and guys like me who -
who played a little bit of the game...
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I will bet you a steak dinner
in four years you'll be hearing from him.
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I don't even know anything about him.
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a chance to see Arthur perform.
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[Smith]
Your role today, Arthur...
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is to impress the coaches.
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Try not to be too fancy.
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Take the open shot when you have it.
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Play good defense
and make good passes.
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The rest of it,
just play natural, you know.
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Well, if he be there...
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I'll be shocked...
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'cause that'd be my first time
ever seeing him...
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up close, you know, real life.
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Basketball has to be second
to your academics.
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If you don't get your grades,
you're not gonna play.
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If you work hard at the grades,
and if you work hard at basketball...
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And I guarantee this.
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I can't promise you where you're gonna
go and if you're gonna be a star...
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that would be best for you.
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I'm making a commitment to you...
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there are a few like Arthur
that Coach Pingatore is recruiting.
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[Arthur] It was like million of guys
trying to be better than the other...
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but, to me,
I was better than all of them...
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except for Isiah.
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high school all-American...
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all-American from Indiana University...
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five-time NBA All-Star...
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In everybody's neighborhood,
there's a guy who can really play.
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He can shoot the lights out.
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Every time down the court -
Swish, swish, swish!
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and the guy gets cut.
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You say, "But Tom was real good.
Why did he get cut?"
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See, Tom didn't learn
the fundamentals of team basketball...
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which is what you're learning
how to play.
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[Arthur] He told my daddy
that he knew I could play...
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But I don't see the confidence.
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He had that total combination
of personality, confidence, talent...
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intelligence.
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I think I see it in one kid
that's coming here.
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He flows with a smoothness
and confidence...
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and strength...
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that you don't see in every kid.
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But he could become a great player.
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I'm trying to let him know right now
you gonna get hit, get knocked down...
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you gonna get banged around,
so you better get used to it now.
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Stop it. One-hand hook.
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All these basketball dreams I had,
they gone.
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All I see - All my dreams is in him now.
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[Woman] If they want to play basketball
and stuff, that was always okay.
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But I was gonna make sure all of 'em
got through high school.
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[William] My mother,
she was like mother and father to me.
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'cause of the gangs.
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I'll at least get a good chance
to go to a good college.
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That would be good for me.
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[Arthur's Father]
That was my first son.
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I said, "That's Daddy's man,"
so we just started calling him "Man."
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Get around it!
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I could have been a good college player.
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Most likely I would have
made it to the pros.
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But, you know, once I had my son...
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I knew then something good
was gonna come out of it.
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I think the talent gonna be passed on.
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He told me, "I'm so scared of growing up."
I said, "Why?"
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you know,
have a better life than what I had.
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I don't want him experiencing
bad things that I went through in life.
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both Arthur and William make
a three-hour round trip each day...
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between the city and St. Joseph's.
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[Arthur] That was strange for me
going out to a far-out school.
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Come on.
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- Three, four, five or 10?
- Ten.
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You got it. Three, four, five?
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[Narrator] Arthur wins the starting
point-guard position on the freshmen team.
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Ettmeyer, four.
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Hey, Arthur, you know
if you miss free throws...
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Then if you don't pay it,
they gonna make you run 50 laps,
and still you have to pay the money.
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- You still gotta pay the money?
- That's way out.
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[Pingatore]
When Arthur first started at St. Joseph's...
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he was a good kid,
from what we saw...
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but he was very immature.
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He might have been a little more
disruptive, speaking out...
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getting into childish things.
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He wasn't used to the discipline
and the control.
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He reverted back to, maybe,
his environment, where he came from.
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I just never been around
a lot of white people and...
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it was different, because at a black school
I could associate with the people.
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You know, they talk the way I talk.
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We kept saying up in the stands,
"Get the ball to Arthur...
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because he's going to do it for you."
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[Cheering]
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[Sheila] I noticed a change immediately
after he started going out there.
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To see your child mature, you say,
"Oh, maybe this is good for him."
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the top-ranked squad in the state.
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from Division I schools -
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Marquette and Rice and Creighton,
Illinois State...
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to name a few.
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Beat him! Beat him! Beat him!
Keep back!
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Hold it up! Hold it up!
You're killing us!
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Why did he get to the ball before you?
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[William] He asks me, do I wanna be
a great player? And I keep saying yeah.
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He said, "For four years,
I'm gonna be on you every day."
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So he said, "You might as well
get used to it now."
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Hard left. No, no. Go hard left.
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Not bad. Do it again.
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you have detention.
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And they'll suspend you quick
at the school too.
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They'll suspend you quick.
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The kids that are willing to do it...
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[William]
Back in grammar school...
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academics really didn't matter
too much to me at all.
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It was playing ball for the team -
really, we was the standouts in the school.
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If you showed up in class,
that was good enough for them.
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[Narrator] Arthur also entered St. Joe's
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.
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[Arthur] Nobody in their right mind
is crazy about school.
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If the president brought up a thing right now
that say, "Close all schools"...
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Okay, fellas. Good.
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[Sister Marilyn] At the end of the year,
he was still in the lower group.
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[Photographer]
One, two, three!
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[Narrator]
For Arthur, the season is over.
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His freshman team finished second
in the conference.
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Against Proviso East,
William plays his best game yet.
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St. Joe's made it downstate
five of the last six years.
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I think by not doing it,
it cost us a state championship.
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[Narrator] In the sectional finals,
Fenwick challenges St. Joe's title hopes.
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William scores 16 points to lead
the Chargers to the sectional title.
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[Man]
From Chicago, it's The Sports Writers On TV.
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I think I may have seen
the next Isiah Thomas.
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St. Joe of Westchester
has a kid named William Gates...
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who is starting as a freshman.
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Remember, you heard it first
from Bill Gleason.
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to decide who will go downstate.
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William plays more like an intimidated freshman
than a freshman sensation.
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But in the third quarter,
William takes over again.
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William's 13 points
in the second half...
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[Game Announcer]
Eric Anderson!
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[Narrator] Despite the loss,
William's gutty performance...
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bodes well for next year.
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[Announcer] There will be an announcement
on ticket sales immediately following the game.
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[Man]
Rewriting 7,300 times 10...
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to the negative fifth
in scientific notation.
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- 7.3...
- 7.3...
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Very good.
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[William] When I went out there,
I was very intimidated...
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'cause I just knew that everybody out there
was just smarter than me.
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As the year went on...
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I just felt like,
"Hey, I'm just as good as them."
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Now what you have to identify -
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[Narrator] Both William and Arthur
have partial scholarships from St. Joe's.
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a Cabrini Green organization.
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But Cycle can't cover
this year's tuition increase.
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[Woman] I was called on
by Brother Edwin Duprais.
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He was trying to raise money
to help kids...
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that couldn't otherwise go
to those kind of schools.
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It really touched a soft spot
in my heart...
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and so I decided that my husband and I
would participate on a personal basis.
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William was selected as the kid...
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that was able to go to school,
based on our contribution.
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- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
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will be free.
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and the increase comes
at an especially bad time.
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Worked for Sara Lee, got laid off.
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Uh, worked for Scala's Meat Packing.
Got laid off there. You know.
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And you got your bills due here,
your bills due there.
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I got called down to the office.
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I was staying out, like,
two and three weeks and stuff.
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By the end of the freshman year...
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whatever balance there was for tuition
was never taken care of.
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Consequently,
going into the sophomore year...
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we had the balance
plus the new tuition...
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and scout out
these little basketball players...
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and get 'em to come to their school
and offer them these scholarships.
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Then once they get out there,
the story is totally different.
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[Narrator] Finally, with the Agees
owing $1,500 in back payments...
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St. Joseph's forced Arthur
to leave the school.
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You have to draw the line
because, as I said...
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tuition is something that,
as a school, we depend on...
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for 90% of our revenue.
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I guess he thought I wasn't gonna be
that big of a ballplayer.
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So why would he just waste some money
on me staying there?
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Or, you know, he thought
I wasn't gonna grow.
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He kept on saying,
"When are you gonna grow?"
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If I had known that all of this
was gonna lead to this...
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Arthur would have never went
to St. Joseph's.
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and myself - the anguish of it...
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and then to put him out
in the middle of a school year -
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[Man]
IDs, ladies and gentlemen.
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All right. Okay, okay. All right.
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[Guard]
Can't take no beepers in here.
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Give me my beeper, man.
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Mr. Wade, I need to see you
at the front door.
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Now where you gonna go?
Your friend go to jail. No beepers in here.
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[Narrator] Arthur is accepted
at the public high school near his home.
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He's been out of school for two months
and lost a whole semester's credit.
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If he was going out there and he was playing
like they had predicted him to play...
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he wouldn't be at Marshall.
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He's not making it like they thought he was
gonna make it on the basketball court...
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so he's not there, simple as that.
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It doesn't take no brilliant person
to figure that out.
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[Sheila] He was so depressed and devastated,
he just closed himself off in the room.
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I would go in there and tell him
every day, "Hey, things will look up."
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[Woman]
What kind of techniques were being used...
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to take away the freedoms
that had been earned?
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- Jeannetta.
- Poll tax.
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Poll tax. Okay, Arthur,
what other techniques were used...
247
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to keep black Americans from voting?
248
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[Woman] In comparing
Marshall High School to St. Joseph...
249
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I don't think
that there is any comparison.
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People can afford
to send their children there.
251
00:31:19,611 --> 00:31:23,714
Whereas our students,
if they get out of high school...
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a lot of them,
it's an accomplishment.
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[Man] Trinomial. What's this gonna be?
Both of these are what?
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Because, uh, I wanna help him
with his little dream.
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00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,834
[Kids Shouting]
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as a nurse's assistant...
257
00:31:53,111 --> 00:31:55,413
because of chronic back pain.
258
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kids don't even have a playground
or play area...
259
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[Narrator]
In June, after 20 years of marriage...
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Arthur's dad leaves the family.
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00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:19,163
Make sure you look at
how many shots have been taken.
262
00:33:19,264 --> 00:33:23,267
Jordan might shoot, uh, 15 out of 40.
263
00:33:24,302 --> 00:33:26,203
Fifteen out of 40?
264
00:33:26,304 --> 00:33:28,572
I'm just saying, for instance.
He's done it.
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00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:32,510
But see, if you do that,
you're gonna know about it.
266
00:33:32,577 --> 00:33:34,478
Ooh.
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00:33:34,579 --> 00:33:37,014
[Emma] Curtis tells William,
"The most important thing...
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[William] He's always telling me,
you should do this and you should do that.
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Seems like everybody I know
is my coach.
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[Curtis]
I know a whole lot about basketball.
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[Cheering]
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[William] When he went to college,
and Michael Jordan first came to the NBA...
273
00:34:30,202 --> 00:34:34,839
they would, you know, sit around and argue
over him - who could play the best.
274
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but he also developed a reputation
for being uncoachable.
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Curtis's idea of being real good is...
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you don't follow the rules,
you do what you wanna do.
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Security. Can I help you?
278
00:35:25,190 --> 00:35:28,159
[Curtis] I'm used to everybody
in the neighborhood loving me...
279
00:35:28,260 --> 00:35:30,594
and knowing how good I can play.
280
00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:34,965
It just seemed like people looked up
to Curtis Gates when it came to basketball...
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[Announcer]
Welcome to the prep game of the week...
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[Announcer #1]
Gates! Good!
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00:36:05,564 --> 00:36:07,531
William Gates is one
of the premier sophomores.
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[Narrator]
William scores 17 points in the first half...
285
00:36:10,569 --> 00:36:14,305
as the Chargers look to return
to the state finals.
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[Announcer #1]
Gates.
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00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:19,176
Good!
288
00:36:26,852 --> 00:36:29,086
[Announcer #2]
Can they get it done here now?
289
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:32,556
[Narrator] In the second half, Gordon Tech
turns to their own sophomore star.
290
00:36:40,131 --> 00:36:42,032
[Announcer #1]
Three-point lead with 12 seconds left.
291
00:36:42,133 --> 00:36:44,034
My guy's William Gates.
292
00:36:44,135 --> 00:36:47,838
I'd like to see him get it, just get to go
one-on-one and pull up and ice it.
293
00:36:52,310 --> 00:36:54,245
Oh, boy. This is it.
294
00:36:55,547 --> 00:36:57,982
- Gates is the man with the ball.
- That's the one I would want.
295
00:37:40,425 --> 00:37:42,493
Come on.
296
00:37:42,594 --> 00:37:45,296
[Narrator] Arthur's season ended well,
and he has high hopes...
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00:37:45,397 --> 00:37:48,065
to play for the varsity next year.
298
00:37:50,335 --> 00:37:53,504
Whoo! Lots of iron on that shit.
299
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,341
[Narrator]
Arthur's dad shows up.
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00:38:05,317 --> 00:38:07,318
Watch this.
301
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:31,542
[Narrator]
Increasingly, this playground court...
302
00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:34,645
has become a place
to buy and sell drugs.
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00:38:50,061 --> 00:38:51,962
[Sheila]
"Dear Mother...
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00:39:00,572 --> 00:39:02,873
who can provide
and take care of me.
305
00:39:02,974 --> 00:39:05,676
You are the one
that makes our family work.
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00:39:05,777 --> 00:39:10,180
You are the one that I will miss so much
when I go away to college.
307
00:39:10,281 --> 00:39:12,850
No one can replace you ever.
308
00:39:12,951 --> 00:39:15,085
Love always, Man."
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00:39:30,769 --> 00:39:33,237
[Wier] I said to him,
"What are you gonna do this summer?"
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00:39:33,338 --> 00:39:35,706
He said, well, he didn't know.
311
00:40:00,131 --> 00:40:02,132
all sorts of stuff.
312
00:40:05,370 --> 00:40:08,505
But I just pushed myself
to come out here...
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00:40:08,606 --> 00:40:11,942
because I know, in the long run,
it's gonna be good for myself...
314
00:40:19,851 --> 00:40:24,822
All she done for me, I don't think there ever
be enough that I can get to pay her back.
315
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,682
I drew on these.
Look at my name.
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00:40:59,824 --> 00:41:04,128
I had heard that his nickname used to be
Tuss, so I just started calling myself Tuss.
317
00:41:04,229 --> 00:41:06,797
Say "Tuss."
[Laughs]
318
00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:13,604
[Chuckling]
319
00:41:13,705 --> 00:41:17,541
[Sheila] You know, I say,
"Man, you may not make it to the NBA."
320
00:41:17,642 --> 00:41:19,943
He said, "Don't keep on
telling me things like that.
321
00:41:20,044 --> 00:41:23,247
That's just like showing me
you don't have any trust in what I do."
322
00:41:23,348 --> 00:41:27,718
I said, "I do, but don't just keep
putting everything into this."
323
00:41:36,561 --> 00:41:39,463
Go first.
[Laughs]
324
00:41:39,564 --> 00:41:43,500
[Sheila]
I say, "Hey, it's your dream. What can we do?"
325
00:41:43,568 --> 00:41:45,502
Yeah!
326
00:42:10,295 --> 00:42:13,564
"We are going to kick off the season
with a midnight madness celebration."
327
00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:41,058
$500 in there for you too."
328
00:42:42,126 --> 00:42:44,061
[Laughing]
329
00:42:55,173 --> 00:42:57,474
Did you see Isiah play the other night?
330
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,643
Yeah, I caught the end of it.
331
00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:07,050
[William] The whole school
see me as being a Isiah Thomas.
332
00:43:07,151 --> 00:43:09,920
I'm trying to build my own identity.
333
00:43:10,021 --> 00:43:14,024
When I leave, they're gonna be, like,
"You're gonna be the next William Gates."
334
00:43:32,143 --> 00:43:34,978
[Announcer] Everything he does
is what a coach is looking for.
335
00:43:39,550 --> 00:43:42,419
What an eye!
336
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,923
You're actually a better shooter
than Isiah from the outside.
337
00:43:47,025 --> 00:43:48,925
- [Chuckles]
- True.
338
00:43:49,027 --> 00:43:52,829
[Announcer] That's heads-up ba -
Oh! Thomas! What a move.
339
00:43:52,930 --> 00:43:55,399
[Pingatore] That means you have
a lot of responsibility, William.
340
00:44:00,505 --> 00:44:02,472
- You wanna go downstate?
- Yeah.
341
00:44:02,573 --> 00:44:06,843
You gotta do something about it.
You have two years to get us down there.
342
00:44:06,944 --> 00:44:08,912
It's going to be all on your head.
343
00:44:09,013 --> 00:44:12,683
[TV Announcer]
Isiah Thomas has just hit his 20th point.
344
00:44:13,685 --> 00:44:15,619
[Pingatore]
Go!
345
00:44:28,366 --> 00:44:31,568
Stras shoot the ball there,
or you stop in here and shootin' the ball?
346
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,071
- Me.
- Well, shoot it!
347
00:44:35,173 --> 00:44:39,176
[Narrator] William practices today
having just recovered from a slight knee injury.
348
00:44:40,645 --> 00:44:43,080
Come on. Let's go.
You're playing soft.
349
00:44:43,181 --> 00:44:45,882
William? Does it bother you?
350
00:44:51,889 --> 00:44:54,891
Hold it. That's bullshit!
351
00:45:20,151 --> 00:45:22,719
Go!
352
00:45:22,787 --> 00:45:24,421
Go!
353
00:45:24,489 --> 00:45:26,423
Go.
354
00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:33,663
Now we start all over.
355
00:45:33,765 --> 00:45:36,466
You people just refuse to work.
356
00:45:45,977 --> 00:45:48,845
Give me a good reason why I should
keep you on this team, Corey.
357
00:45:48,946 --> 00:45:52,048
How 'bout you, Reed?
Give me a good reason.
358
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:54,918
What do you think, William?
359
00:45:55,019 --> 00:45:57,454
I mean, how many of these people
work hard?
360
00:45:57,555 --> 00:45:59,856
- Not too many.
- Not too many.
361
00:45:59,957 --> 00:46:03,427
Wanna stay home
when the state tournament comes?
362
00:46:15,573 --> 00:46:18,542
[Beeping]
363
00:46:18,643 --> 00:46:22,479
[Narrator] The next day in practice,
William reinjures his knee.
364
00:46:22,580 --> 00:46:25,282
[Machinery Beeping]
365
00:46:30,421 --> 00:46:34,357
You, most likely,
have at least torn this cartilage...
366
00:46:34,459 --> 00:46:36,359
the inside cartilage of your knee.
367
00:46:37,595 --> 00:46:41,898
And you may have
a ligament tear in your knee, okay?
368
00:46:43,234 --> 00:46:46,570
If the ligament is torn, William,
you would miss this year...
369
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:48,605
entirely.
370
00:46:48,706 --> 00:46:51,107
This is a lot to happen to you
at an early age.
371
00:47:23,140 --> 00:47:25,642
All you guys can't get large.
372
00:47:26,944 --> 00:47:29,145
- Somebody accidentally -
- What's up, man?
373
00:47:29,247 --> 00:47:32,516
Somebody gotta wear medium.
You little skinny guys wanna get in a large.
374
00:47:37,121 --> 00:47:41,291
[Narrator] Junior year, Arthur makes varsity
for the Marshall Commandos.
375
00:47:59,744 --> 00:48:02,112
This is it.
All righty.
376
00:48:02,179 --> 00:48:04,414
Not too bad.
377
00:48:04,482 --> 00:48:06,349
Fine.
378
00:48:13,224 --> 00:48:16,860
[Narrator] Back home,
the family's troubles have worsened.
379
00:48:16,961 --> 00:48:19,663
Now I'm on welfare...
380
00:48:22,767 --> 00:48:27,304
And trying to live month-to-month
on something like that is very hard.
381
00:48:27,405 --> 00:48:30,140
You have three growing kids
that need this...
382
00:48:32,577 --> 00:48:36,079
and it's just not enough
to make ends meet.
383
00:48:39,584 --> 00:48:43,887
Man! Sweetie, is Man in there?
384
00:48:43,988 --> 00:48:46,756
[Sheila]
I was never raised on welfare.
385
00:48:46,857 --> 00:48:50,193
My mother and father both worked.
386
00:48:59,303 --> 00:49:01,438
So, therefore,
do you know what happened?
387
00:49:01,539 --> 00:49:03,974
Our lights were cut off.
Our gas was cut off.
388
00:49:04,075 --> 00:49:06,309
And we were sittin' in the dark.
389
00:49:15,953 --> 00:49:19,756
They had cut me off because
I failed to meet an appointment.
390
00:49:55,726 --> 00:49:55,759
[Machinery Whirring, Beeping]
391
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,695
[Machinery Whirring, Beeping]
392
00:50:16,313 --> 00:50:19,783
The good news is
that your ligament looks fine.
393
00:50:19,884 --> 00:50:22,452
- Good.
- Okay? Your ligament looks fine.
394
00:50:22,553 --> 00:50:25,188
We can actually
sew the cartilage back.
395
00:50:32,963 --> 00:50:36,132
Possibly being able to play
by tournament time.
396
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,134
Okay?
397
00:50:48,179 --> 00:50:50,914
to kind of take the edge
off of things, okay?
398
00:50:50,981 --> 00:50:52,916
All right?
399
00:50:53,017 --> 00:50:55,285
- I can tell.
- Yeah.
400
00:51:17,775 --> 00:51:20,009
If it stays there.
401
00:51:20,111 --> 00:51:23,713
Probably go with the right post here
and little stuff.
402
00:51:32,156 --> 00:51:35,658
So what do you think
that gon' do to his career?
403
00:51:52,843 --> 00:51:55,345
I just wanted this one to make it.
404
00:52:16,867 --> 00:52:19,602
[Narrator]
Curtis lost his job as a security guard...
405
00:52:19,703 --> 00:52:22,739
and has been unemployed
for over four months.
406
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,708
Sometimes I sit around
and my eyes just kinda get watery...
407
00:52:25,810 --> 00:52:28,678
'cause I be, like,
I ain't amounted to nothing.
408
00:52:28,779 --> 00:52:31,047
You know, I ain't got nothing.
409
00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:36,519
I can't even go out there and get a job
making seven dollars an hour.
410
00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:41,157
I'll be sitting there telling myself,
"You ain't gonna get no better."
411
00:52:44,862 --> 00:52:44,894
[Chattering, Indistinct]
412
00:52:44,895 --> 00:52:47,530
[Chattering, Indistinct]
413
00:52:51,302 --> 00:52:53,203
y'all get your own place?
414
00:52:53,304 --> 00:52:55,805
We can all go to Arby's, baby!
415
00:52:55,906 --> 00:52:58,942
- And get fresh Matt's Cookies.
- And going to Jewel's for our meat.
416
00:52:59,043 --> 00:53:03,446
- [Girl] That's a lot of food stamps.
- [Boy] We ain't gonna need no food stamps.
417
00:53:04,548 --> 00:53:07,684
[Sheila]
Each day is a struggle.
418
00:53:07,785 --> 00:53:10,386
Trying to deal with the kids' attitudes
as well as my own...
419
00:53:18,529 --> 00:53:21,331
[Laughing]
Don't you say that about my son.
420
00:53:21,432 --> 00:53:23,566
My son got a brain.
Now, you cut that out.
421
00:53:23,667 --> 00:53:25,802
- But he don't use it.
- See that brain there?
422
00:53:25,903 --> 00:53:28,571
[Narrator] Now there are two
new members of the Agee household.
423
00:53:28,672 --> 00:53:33,142
Arthur's sister Tomika
has a baby girl named Jazz.
424
00:53:33,244 --> 00:53:36,746
And Arthur's best friend Shannon moved in
to escape his own troubled home.
425
00:53:37,882 --> 00:53:39,949
[Arthur]
Shannon is like me.
426
00:53:51,362 --> 00:53:55,331
It's been crazy, as far as his father
and his mother's breakup.
427
00:54:00,471 --> 00:54:02,939
and beat on his mother and stuff.
428
00:55:10,341 --> 00:55:14,777
[Game Announcer] Starting at guard,
number 11, a junior, Arthur Agee!
429
00:55:14,878 --> 00:55:17,480
[Arthur] When I played basketball,
I knew what I wanted to do.
430
00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:20,450
This is what I want, you know.
431
00:55:20,551 --> 00:55:23,553
This is what I wanna do
for the rest of my life.
432
00:55:28,359 --> 00:55:30,259
Come on, win it, boy!
433
00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:36,632
Get that ball!
434
00:55:38,569 --> 00:55:41,437
[Bedford] He's way behind
where I think he should be at this point.
435
00:55:41,538 --> 00:55:43,806
I've had a few guys come
to me from college -
436
00:55:43,907 --> 00:55:46,442
"Ooh, I like that kid.
He's quick, he's fast."
437
00:56:02,626 --> 00:56:04,594
I couldn't handle two guys like that...
438
00:56:04,695 --> 00:56:08,064
so I tried the lesser of the evils.
439
00:56:31,155 --> 00:56:33,689
[Narrator] After spending
most of the game on the bench...
440
00:56:33,791 --> 00:56:36,359
Arthur gets another chance.
441
00:56:45,069 --> 00:56:47,270
[Narrator]
In the final minutes of a close game...
442
00:56:47,371 --> 00:56:50,273
Arthur takes it strong to the hoop.
443
00:56:50,374 --> 00:56:52,141
[Whistle Blows]
444
00:56:52,242 --> 00:56:55,378
He's called for charging
and fouls out of the game.
445
00:56:55,479 --> 00:56:58,047
[Buzzer Buzzes]
446
00:57:41,492 --> 00:57:43,626
[Narrator]
The daily regimen of rehabilitation...
447
00:57:58,342 --> 00:58:02,845
[William]
I was just basically scared to tell people.
448
00:58:02,946 --> 00:58:05,014
I was feelin' sick, you know...
449
00:58:05,115 --> 00:58:07,016
holding all this stuff
inside of me.
450
00:58:13,624 --> 00:58:14,590
And I said...
451
00:58:14,691 --> 00:58:17,627
"Oh... three, four months ago."
452
00:58:17,728 --> 00:58:19,662
[Both Laughing]
453
00:58:19,763 --> 00:58:21,864
He was like,
"Three or four months ago?"
454
00:58:23,233 --> 00:58:25,168
I was in the delivery room.
455
00:58:25,269 --> 00:58:27,136
The nurses gave her to her...
456
00:58:33,243 --> 00:58:35,144
[Chuckles]
457
00:58:35,245 --> 00:58:38,247
Once we got her home
William offered his help and stuff...
458
00:58:41,919 --> 00:58:44,120
You know?
Instead of the two of us.
459
00:58:44,221 --> 00:58:48,991
So then, after a while we -
I finally let him keep her.
460
00:59:18,622 --> 00:59:21,357
Your numbers look real good.
461
00:59:21,458 --> 00:59:25,261
I think you're two to three weeks away
from being able to practice full.
462
00:59:25,362 --> 00:59:28,898
- You know what I mean?
- Two or three weeks?
463
00:59:28,999 --> 00:59:33,669
I know you wanted to
waltz in here today and I'd tell you
to go back to practice right now...
464
00:59:37,808 --> 00:59:41,644
[William]
I felt that this was the year for me.
465
00:59:43,113 --> 00:59:45,615
- ♪♪ [Pep Band]
- [Cheering]
466
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,102
I look up on the scoreboard -
467
01:00:07,137 --> 01:00:10,039
My name is not even on there anymore.
468
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,915
[Fans Cheering, Shouting]
469
01:00:22,486 --> 01:00:24,887
[Narrator]
William takes a makeup exam in math...
470
01:00:24,988 --> 01:00:27,256
because he skipped the final.
471
01:00:32,696 --> 01:00:35,965
Here's the cutoff point for passing.
472
01:00:48,912 --> 01:00:52,348
I understand we, uh -
we got the ACT results.
473
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,996
[Narrator]
William scores a 15 on his first ACT.
474
01:01:07,097 --> 01:01:11,000
He needs to score an 18 to qualify
for an athletic scholarship...
475
01:01:17,474 --> 01:01:21,277
We'll have to talk to Mrs. Wier. Okay?
476
01:01:22,713 --> 01:01:25,748
Sometimes you have had the right answer
and you changed it to the wrong answer.
477
01:01:28,919 --> 01:01:32,221
the cost of the six-week class is waived.
478
01:01:45,068 --> 01:01:46,969
[William]
You just don't know the feeling...
479
01:01:47,070 --> 01:01:48,971
not knowing
if you gonna be able to play...
480
01:01:49,072 --> 01:01:50,973
just because of a test.
481
01:01:51,074 --> 01:01:55,478
I mean, as soon as you don't tighten one screw,
everything falls apart.
482
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:56,712
- [Female Teacher] El caballo.
- [Students Respond] El caballo.
483
01:01:56,713 --> 01:01:59,648
- [Female Teacher] El caballo.
- [Students Respond] El caballo.
484
01:02:29,212 --> 01:02:31,080
Hey, Shannon!
485
01:02:31,181 --> 01:02:34,083
[Bedford] Most of them
that have come through here...
486
01:02:34,184 --> 01:02:36,085
and had that type of attitude...
487
01:02:36,186 --> 01:02:39,255
usually end up in the streets
talkin' about they used to play for Marshall...
488
01:02:46,062 --> 01:02:49,265
trying to find a job, then can't find a job,
that kind of thing.
489
01:02:49,366 --> 01:02:51,367
This is where he's headed, really.
490
01:02:51,468 --> 01:02:53,836
♪♪ [Rap, Faint]
491
01:03:32,142 --> 01:03:35,044
where they worried about the injury.
492
01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:38,948
When this happens,
they may never be the player they were.
493
01:03:39,049 --> 01:03:42,051
♪♪ [Continues]
494
01:03:57,067 --> 01:03:59,001
[Whistle Blows]
495
01:03:59,102 --> 01:04:01,604
William should have shot it.
496
01:04:06,877 --> 01:04:10,312
He gotta do that the whole game.
He only do it when they leadin'.
497
01:04:19,756 --> 01:04:21,690
[Man Shouts]
Run it out!
498
01:04:21,791 --> 01:04:24,226
[William]
I always felt that Curtis...
499
01:04:24,327 --> 01:04:26,795
should not be living his dream
through me.
500
01:04:40,477 --> 01:04:43,345
You gotta come out
and start playing hard all the time.
501
01:04:43,446 --> 01:04:45,681
Otherwise you're just another player.
502
01:04:45,782 --> 01:04:48,684
You follow me?
Just remember the way we talked.
503
01:04:48,785 --> 01:04:52,821
Okay? As long as you're physically able.
If you're not, you shouldn't be playing at all.
504
01:04:52,923 --> 01:04:56,025
So nervous about the start tonight.
505
01:04:59,162 --> 01:05:01,063
Now I can just...
506
01:05:01,164 --> 01:05:03,899
get onto the floor more better.
507
01:05:05,068 --> 01:05:08,971
[Chanting, Clapping]
508
01:05:09,072 --> 01:05:10,940
Spread the floor to four corners!
509
01:05:11,041 --> 01:05:14,009
[Narrator]
St. Joe's has made it to the sectionals.
510
01:05:33,096 --> 01:05:35,130
Always a clutch free-throw shooter...
511
01:05:37,667 --> 01:05:40,302
he sinks four straight
to help seal the victory.
512
01:05:40,403 --> 01:05:42,471
[Chanting]
513
01:05:42,572 --> 01:05:44,940
[Buzzer Buzzes]
514
01:05:49,446 --> 01:05:51,480
[Narrator]
In the sectional finals...
515
01:05:51,581 --> 01:05:53,716
St. Joe's looks for revenge
against Gordon Tech...
516
01:05:53,817 --> 01:05:56,418
the team that knocked them out
last year.
517
01:06:08,765 --> 01:06:10,633
You are not working hard enough!
518
01:06:10,734 --> 01:06:13,502
You understand me?
They want it harder than you!
519
01:06:13,603 --> 01:06:16,105
- [Whistle Blows]
- At the beginning of the fourth quarter...
520
01:06:16,206 --> 01:06:18,507
St. Joe's leads by a point.
521
01:06:29,953 --> 01:06:33,355
[Buzzer Buzzes]
522
01:06:34,691 --> 01:06:36,558
Got any pain with that?
523
01:07:05,789 --> 01:07:07,856
- [Whistle Blows]
- William calls time-out.
524
01:07:09,759 --> 01:07:13,228
I want it down floor
so we can get it to one of our good jumpers.
525
01:07:28,778 --> 01:07:31,146
With six seconds to go...
526
01:07:31,247 --> 01:07:34,116
William steps to the line
with two free throws...
527
01:07:36,219 --> 01:07:38,220
[Cheering Continues]
528
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,921
[Whistle Blows]
529
01:08:37,747 --> 01:08:40,616
He shouldn't have been out there.
He shouldn't have been playing.
530
01:08:40,717 --> 01:08:43,152
- The knee?
- I'm very disappointed.
531
01:08:43,253 --> 01:08:45,687
Y'all get that on tape 18 times.
532
01:08:54,731 --> 01:08:59,334
That ain't no excuse. He got out there,
said there wasn't nothin' wrong with him.
533
01:08:59,435 --> 01:09:01,336
That's an excuse.
534
01:09:01,437 --> 01:09:04,439
If he was hurt,
he shouldn't have got out there.
535
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,235
There's two possible problems
you could have.
536
01:09:36,239 --> 01:09:38,073
and still have
a small residual tear.
537
01:09:38,174 --> 01:09:40,042
[Narrator]
William's brother-in-law, Alvin...
538
01:09:40,143 --> 01:09:43,345
takes him to see Dr. Hefferon,
the Chicago Bulls team doctor.
539
01:09:43,446 --> 01:09:46,481
What you need to do is have
your knee arthroscoped again.
540
01:09:48,785 --> 01:09:50,686
- What side we gonna do?
- Right side.
541
01:09:59,329 --> 01:10:01,797
Coach kept sayin'
it's really up to me...
542
01:10:01,898 --> 01:10:05,434
and if you leave it up to me
I'm goin' back out there on the court.
543
01:10:10,974 --> 01:10:14,509
He'll have a higher incidence of arthritis
as he gets older than you or I would.
544
01:10:14,611 --> 01:10:19,615
But in terms of his basketball career,
he has a good chance of performing fine.
545
01:10:19,716 --> 01:10:21,683
- There's the medial meniscus.
- [Nurse] Wow.
546
01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:33,128
is makin' it down there.
547
01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:36,899
I want to be able to go all out
the whole year.
548
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:38,901
No setbacks, no nothin'.
549
01:10:39,002 --> 01:10:41,904
At least Coach won't have to say,
"William, you didn't play hard this game"...
550
01:10:42,005 --> 01:10:45,874
'cause when I step on that floor
I'm gon' be all business, and that's it.
551
01:10:48,611 --> 01:10:50,512
- ♪♪ [Organ: Upbeat]
- [Clapping]
552
01:10:50,613 --> 01:10:52,514
[Narrator]
One year after he left...
553
01:10:52,615 --> 01:10:55,517
Arthur's dad Bo rejoins the family.
554
01:10:55,618 --> 01:10:58,220
He spent seven months in jail
for burglary...
555
01:10:58,321 --> 01:11:01,023
and overcame an addiction
to crack cocaine.
556
01:11:01,124 --> 01:11:04,893
- [Woman] Man might fail ya,
but Jesus never fails!
- ♪♪ [Organ Punctuating Sermon]
557
01:11:04,994 --> 01:11:08,630
Praise God! Whoo!
If you haven't tried him, try him!
558
01:11:14,270 --> 01:11:17,139
- Even in the midnight hour, he's there.
- Amen.
559
01:11:19,475 --> 01:11:21,810
- Hallelujah!
- Hallelujah!
560
01:11:29,452 --> 01:11:34,923
Glory to God. Even in the beginning, Lord,
you blessed that first family.
561
01:11:39,729 --> 01:11:43,765
Send strength, Lord, glory to God,
wherever there is weakness.
562
01:11:44,767 --> 01:11:46,668
Please, Lord...
563
01:11:46,769 --> 01:11:48,904
let the love prevail.
564
01:11:49,005 --> 01:11:50,872
♪♪ [Organ]
565
01:12:00,083 --> 01:12:02,317
- Yeah!
- Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Lord!
566
01:12:02,418 --> 01:12:04,720
♪ I've had my ups and downs ♪
567
01:12:04,821 --> 01:12:06,755
That's right.
568
01:12:06,856 --> 01:12:11,259
♪ And, Lord ♪
569
01:12:32,048 --> 01:12:34,750
♪ I wanna thank the Lord
for protectin' my family ♪
570
01:12:34,851 --> 01:12:37,285
- [Clapping]
- ♪ I just wanna say thank you, Lord ♪
571
01:12:39,389 --> 01:12:42,290
[Bo] I just hope this be
a lesson to my children...
572
01:12:42,392 --> 01:12:45,127
to see me turn my life
over to the Lord.
573
01:12:50,433 --> 01:12:52,300
[Shouting, Scattered Applause]
574
01:12:52,402 --> 01:12:57,005
♪ You washed my tears away ♪
575
01:12:57,106 --> 01:12:58,974
[Woman]
Oh, yeah!
576
01:12:59,075 --> 01:13:04,146
♪ The Lord has
brightened up my days ♪♪
577
01:13:04,247 --> 01:13:06,148
- ♪♪ [Continues]
- [Arthur] When I was little...
578
01:13:06,249 --> 01:13:08,250
he had let me down.
579
01:13:10,219 --> 01:13:14,856
People used to come up to me -
"Your father a drug addict" and stuff.
580
01:13:14,957 --> 01:13:17,259
And I'd just be, like, "Yeah, okay."
581
01:13:17,326 --> 01:13:18,827
You know?
582
01:13:20,063 --> 01:13:22,964
And I used to take so much,
you know...
583
01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:39,347
Give me a hug before you go.
584
01:13:39,449 --> 01:13:41,349
- Give your granddad a hug.
- Thank you!
585
01:13:41,451 --> 01:13:45,420
[Bo] The closeness was not there at first,
when I come back home.
586
01:13:45,521 --> 01:13:49,157
And then Arthur,
he was watchin' me -
587
01:13:49,258 --> 01:13:51,159
What move would I make now?
588
01:13:51,227 --> 01:13:53,128
Am I just...
589
01:13:53,229 --> 01:13:55,964
bein' like this
since I just come back...
590
01:13:56,065 --> 01:13:59,234
or am I gonna break bad again?
591
01:14:18,154 --> 01:14:22,390
He hasn't lived with the family
since William was a baby.
592
01:14:22,492 --> 01:14:25,494
The car that I was gonna give you,
uh, I didn't finish it up yet.
593
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,201
It never popped in my mind.
594
01:14:33,302 --> 01:14:36,438
- The car back there?
- No, that's the car right over there.
595
01:14:36,539 --> 01:14:38,573
That black Cutlass right there.
596
01:14:39,609 --> 01:14:41,510
[William]
I think he's, like...
597
01:14:41,611 --> 01:14:44,412
"Oh, he really must be able
to play some basketball."
598
01:14:44,514 --> 01:14:47,482
I think now he sees
somethin' at the end for himself.
599
01:14:51,621 --> 01:14:55,924
I remember one time he tried to whup me,
but I wouldn't let him.
600
01:14:56,025 --> 01:15:00,929
I said, "You may be my dad biologically,
but as far as being there -
601
01:15:24,287 --> 01:15:27,923
[Alicia, William Chattering]
602
01:15:29,292 --> 01:15:31,426
Alicia, you're my only friend.
603
01:15:37,266 --> 01:15:41,670
[William] I always knew that I was
gonna be a better dad than he was.
604
01:15:41,771 --> 01:15:44,839
I wouldn't just leave her like that.
605
01:15:44,941 --> 01:15:47,142
- Alicia?
- Hmm? Yes, Mama?
606
01:15:47,243 --> 01:15:50,412
[William] If Alicia has a problem,
then I have a problem.
607
01:15:50,513 --> 01:15:52,881
[Babbling]
608
01:15:52,982 --> 01:15:55,183
She's believing whatever she said.
609
01:15:55,284 --> 01:15:57,285
[Babbling Continues]
610
01:15:58,854 --> 01:16:01,122
[Catherine Laughs]
611
01:16:11,467 --> 01:16:14,903
used by many
of Chicago's pro athletes.
612
01:16:16,005 --> 01:16:20,709
Both of William's operations and rehabs
have been paid for by the school's insurance.
613
01:16:42,999 --> 01:16:46,368
- [Girl] No, you don't!
- [Class Laughing]
614
01:16:46,469 --> 01:16:50,105
- [Chattering]
- [Teacher]
What about the woman's perspective?
615
01:16:51,140 --> 01:16:54,042
[Teacher]
All right, quiet down a minute here!
616
01:16:54,143 --> 01:16:57,879
[Narrator] For the second straight year,
Arthur and Shannon must take summer school.
617
01:17:00,950 --> 01:17:03,018
- [Class Laughs]
- Shut up!
618
01:17:03,119 --> 01:17:06,187
[Narrator] This class
is for freshmen, sophomores and juniors...
619
01:17:06,289 --> 01:17:09,257
who have failed English.
620
01:17:09,358 --> 01:17:11,226
The basic problem here...
621
01:17:25,508 --> 01:17:28,009
Because exactly what is having sex...
622
01:17:28,110 --> 01:17:32,480
but engaging in an act
that doesn't fulfill -
623
01:17:32,581 --> 01:17:35,450
[Kelly]
Shannon really didn't care...
624
01:17:35,551 --> 01:17:37,452
so he just stopped coming...
625
01:17:37,553 --> 01:17:40,322
and he was dropped
from the roll.
626
01:17:44,327 --> 01:17:46,728
[Narrator]
Even if Arthur passes summer school...
627
01:17:46,829 --> 01:17:49,731
he may not graduate
with his class next year...
628
01:17:49,832 --> 01:17:53,368
because St. Joseph's is refusing
to release his transcripts.
629
01:17:53,469 --> 01:17:55,403
[Kelly]
I called up the school.
630
01:17:55,504 --> 01:17:58,940
The lady explained to me
that he owed $1,800...
631
01:17:59,041 --> 01:18:02,644
so I felt, well, they have
a school policy there...
632
01:18:02,745 --> 01:18:06,414
and there's, uh, nothing
I can do about that.
633
01:18:18,494 --> 01:18:20,929
[Man]
About how much can you afford?
634
01:18:23,632 --> 01:18:26,568
- 13. 10.
- Oh.
635
01:18:26,635 --> 01:18:28,536
13. 10?
636
01:18:28,637 --> 01:18:30,705
[Man]
1,813. 10.
637
01:18:31,741 --> 01:18:34,342
Well, to total that out...
638
01:18:39,582 --> 01:18:42,584
[O'Brien]
We're looking at somewhere around -
639
01:18:43,819 --> 01:18:46,588
It's 181.30 per month.
640
01:18:50,659 --> 01:18:54,195
- Sure.
- Could his credits be released too?
641
01:18:54,296 --> 01:18:58,767
I will get a promissory agreement
drawn up. Okay?
642
01:18:58,868 --> 01:19:01,603
As long as you show me good faith
after the first two months...
643
01:19:01,704 --> 01:19:04,038
I'll release 'em, uh -
644
01:19:08,144 --> 01:19:11,045
- Then I'll send 'em to Marshall.
- Okay. That would be fine with us.
645
01:19:11,147 --> 01:19:13,548
- I really appreciate this.
- How's Arthur doing, anyway?
646
01:19:19,422 --> 01:19:21,322
- Yeah. Me too.
- Well, things -
647
01:19:21,424 --> 01:19:24,659
- Things happen, you know, and -
- [Sheila] Things happen, you know, and -
648
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:26,694
- Hey -
- That's part of life.
649
01:19:26,796 --> 01:19:29,697
- I can't let him down no more.
- Good.
650
01:19:38,808 --> 01:19:40,708
- Okay? Very good.
- All right. Thank you very much.
651
01:19:40,810 --> 01:19:42,811
- Have a nice day.
- Take care now.
652
01:19:42,912 --> 01:19:45,280
Okay. Very good.
653
01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:21,216
I almost threw my life
right along with it.
654
01:20:24,153 --> 01:20:26,054
He can just look at my life...
655
01:20:26,155 --> 01:20:29,657
and say here's a good example
of what not to do.
656
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:33,228
If he had my ways...
657
01:20:44,673 --> 01:20:46,541
[Cash Register Rings]
658
01:20:46,642 --> 01:20:49,244
Hey, look at that Georgetown coat.
Man, I might get that.
659
01:20:56,051 --> 01:20:57,752
How much?
660
01:20:58,787 --> 01:21:01,456
Seventy bucks even, no tax.
661
01:21:21,977 --> 01:21:24,679
A'ight.
662
01:21:33,656 --> 01:21:33,688
[Chattering]
663
01:21:33,689 --> 01:21:35,290
[Chattering]
664
01:21:35,391 --> 01:21:37,425
[Bell Tolling]
665
01:21:41,230 --> 01:21:43,598
[Man]
While you're sitting here today...
666
01:21:48,504 --> 01:21:52,006
You are one of a hundred
of the best high school players...
667
01:21:52,107 --> 01:21:54,842
in this country,
the United States.
668
01:21:54,944 --> 01:21:57,845
My mother, God bless her,
she's in heaven today.
669
01:21:57,947 --> 01:22:02,050
She used to always say to me, "This is America.
You can make something of your life."
670
01:22:02,151 --> 01:22:05,053
- [Shouts]
- [Chattering]
671
01:22:05,154 --> 01:22:06,788
- Come on! Come on!
- [Whistle Blows]
672
01:22:06,889 --> 01:22:10,191
- Okay.
- [Whistle Blows]
673
01:22:10,292 --> 01:22:14,495
All the coaches from over here.
To the stands, please, coaches!
674
01:22:16,632 --> 01:22:19,767
If you a player, somebody up there
gonna recognize that you a player.
675
01:22:19,868 --> 01:22:22,804
[Man]
So there's 250 of us here.
676
01:22:27,009 --> 01:22:29,877
There aren't very many kids at any level,
including the NBA...
677
01:22:29,979 --> 01:22:32,780
that really understand
what basketball is all about.
678
01:22:32,881 --> 01:22:36,050
We always say, you're going to war, would you
want him behind you covering your flank?
679
01:22:36,151 --> 01:22:39,020
If you're pouting,
they're gonna also recognize that.
680
01:22:39,121 --> 01:22:41,956
And don't tell me
they're not gonna write it down in that book.
681
01:22:42,057 --> 01:22:43,925
[Narrator]
At the prestigious Nike camp...
682
01:23:03,412 --> 01:23:07,882
One, two, three, four!
683
01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:11,919
♪ Check, check, check, check it out ♪
684
01:23:40,449 --> 01:23:42,617
- [Horn Blows]
- [Whistle Blows]
685
01:23:44,319 --> 01:23:46,287
[Whistle Blows]
686
01:23:56,865 --> 01:23:59,233
A few coaches - more coaches
comin' around to look...
687
01:24:11,380 --> 01:24:13,514
and others of you will not make it.
688
01:24:13,615 --> 01:24:17,685
[Man] This is summer for them.
They don't wanna be sitting in a classroom.
689
01:24:24,460 --> 01:24:27,328
Fifteen hours a week for basketball.
How many hours do we have up here?
690
01:24:27,429 --> 01:24:32,734
[DuBois] The statistics on Division I players
graduating from college are really frightening.
691
01:24:32,835 --> 01:24:36,003
[Instructor] Let's assume you're playing
big-time college basketball...
692
01:24:36,105 --> 01:24:38,840
[Voice Fades]
and your team travels -
693
01:24:51,587 --> 01:24:54,756
The only reason why you're here -
694
01:24:55,791 --> 01:24:57,692
you can make their team win.
695
01:24:57,793 --> 01:24:59,861
If their team wins...
696
01:24:59,962 --> 01:25:02,063
these schools get a lot of money.
697
01:25:28,824 --> 01:25:31,192
[Chattering]
698
01:25:31,293 --> 01:25:34,228
There's one particular kid
who's here now...
699
01:25:34,329 --> 01:25:37,165
I've watched him since sixth grade;
I've watched him blossom.
700
01:25:37,266 --> 01:25:40,134
That's when you wanna get on 'em -
when they're young -
701
01:25:40,235 --> 01:25:42,503
and start writin' 'em
before everybody else writes 'em.
702
01:25:42,604 --> 01:25:46,007
Try to get any edge you can
in this business.
703
01:25:52,981 --> 01:25:56,450
you know,
and serve professional meat.
704
01:25:56,552 --> 01:25:59,554
[Shouting, Chattering]
705
01:26:02,357 --> 01:26:05,860
What schools do you think
are most involved with William right now?
706
01:26:05,961 --> 01:26:07,995
I would say DePaul...
707
01:26:08,096 --> 01:26:11,465
Marquette, Indiana, Michigan.
708
01:26:12,501 --> 01:26:15,603
- [Whistle Blows]
- Excellent.
709
01:26:15,704 --> 01:26:17,872
Great job! Way to go!
710
01:26:17,973 --> 01:26:21,242
Bob Gibbons done seen me
play my best game out here.
711
01:26:21,343 --> 01:26:24,679
Turned in 16 points, 12 assists.
712
01:26:24,780 --> 01:26:27,081
Bob Gibbons over there like this -
"Hmm."
713
01:26:27,182 --> 01:26:29,083
[Boy Laughs]
714
01:26:34,156 --> 01:26:36,290
Give me a slice of the crust.
715
01:26:38,193 --> 01:26:40,061
[Boy]
Probably will.
716
01:26:40,162 --> 01:26:42,430
- Thanks a lot.
- [Laughing]
717
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:46,467
Look.
718
01:26:46,535 --> 01:26:48,202
Hey, Mom.
719
01:26:48,303 --> 01:26:50,404
[Laughing Continues]
720
01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:54,041
[William]
Right now I'm feelin' good about myself.
721
01:26:58,447 --> 01:27:02,850
I really feel like, since I been down here,
that I was all-American.
722
01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:08,122
When I go back home
I'm gonna feel unstoppable.
723
01:27:09,791 --> 01:27:13,761
[Man] This one eyebrows up.
This one eyebrows up.
724
01:27:21,536 --> 01:27:24,038
[Chattering, Shouting]
725
01:27:32,681 --> 01:27:36,083
[Man] I'm gonna pull up on it, okay?
Tell me if it hurts more.
726
01:27:47,262 --> 01:27:49,230
Easy does it, now.
727
01:27:53,635 --> 01:27:57,104
It's on the muscle.
It's not on the joint. It's above the joint.
728
01:27:57,172 --> 01:27:58,973
Okay?
729
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:21,162
- ♪♪ [Hip-hop]
- [Chattering, Laughing]
730
01:28:37,779 --> 01:28:39,680
- Six.
- Six?
731
01:28:39,781 --> 01:28:42,149
[Narrator] Arthur's transcript
from St. Joseph's has arrived.
732
01:28:42,250 --> 01:28:45,553
If you pass all of the classes
that you're presently taking...
733
01:28:45,654 --> 01:28:47,955
you can graduate
from summer school.
734
01:28:52,794 --> 01:28:54,695
When do you plan to take it?
735
01:28:54,796 --> 01:28:56,731
Sometime soon.
736
01:28:56,832 --> 01:29:00,401
What institution are you planning on going to?
Have you decided that?
737
01:29:00,502 --> 01:29:04,905
I was, um, thinking about,
going to, um... Alabama.
738
01:29:05,007 --> 01:29:08,142
But you need to take
Algebra-Trig. Okay?
739
01:29:09,144 --> 01:29:11,045
Do you plan to take that?
740
01:29:11,146 --> 01:29:13,447
[Laughs]
I don't know.
741
01:29:13,548 --> 01:29:15,583
You don't know?
742
01:29:17,252 --> 01:29:20,154
So you just barely gettin' by again.
743
01:29:27,062 --> 01:29:29,964
Now, you gonna have to do better than that
if you wanna go to Alabama...
744
01:29:30,065 --> 01:29:32,466
or any other school.
745
01:29:43,478 --> 01:29:46,847
St. Joe's just messed everything up.
Shouldn't have even went there.
746
01:29:48,383 --> 01:29:50,284
Thought I had more credits than this.
747
01:29:50,385 --> 01:29:53,788
They gon' kick me out
'cause I ain't payin' 'em money. Man!
748
01:29:56,425 --> 01:29:59,427
[Arthur] That's all right, though.
I'm gonna still make it.
749
01:30:04,299 --> 01:30:07,568
[Emma] "Don't let your best
opportunity get away from you.
750
01:30:07,669 --> 01:30:11,839
You can have a great experience
at Marquette University.
751
01:30:11,940 --> 01:30:13,808
Once you visit our campus...
752
01:30:13,909 --> 01:30:18,612
I feel confident that you will know
that Marquette is the right place for you.
753
01:30:24,853 --> 01:30:26,954
I like these.
754
01:30:27,055 --> 01:30:31,025
I been gettin', like, two a week
from the school for...
755
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:34,061
a couple of months.
756
01:30:34,162 --> 01:30:36,363
So that's quite a few.
757
01:30:36,465 --> 01:30:40,734
[Woman On TV] I know you're game,
but, Monica, you seem very overwrought.
758
01:30:42,838 --> 01:30:45,372
[Curtis]
I had Division I offers.
759
01:30:45,474 --> 01:30:49,643
I had even signed at Marquette 'cause
they thought I was gonna make the grades.
760
01:30:52,314 --> 01:30:54,482
The great ballplayers...
761
01:30:54,583 --> 01:30:57,485
they care about basketball
more than they care about school...
762
01:30:57,586 --> 01:30:59,987
and I know they do.
763
01:31:28,183 --> 01:31:31,552
then the Marquette Warriors
are for you.
764
01:31:31,653 --> 01:31:34,522
[Narrator]
William's first home recruiting visit.
765
01:31:42,631 --> 01:31:45,166
[Man] If you don't make the test score,
it doesn't mean we don't want you...
766
01:31:45,267 --> 01:31:47,201
because we still do -
that's what I'm telling you.
767
01:31:47,302 --> 01:31:49,203
If you tear your knee out
again this year...
768
01:31:49,304 --> 01:31:51,172
and you can't play ever again...
769
01:32:00,849 --> 01:32:03,851
The bottom line is this -
we want to win the national title.
770
01:32:03,952 --> 01:32:06,654
Number two - I wanna make you
the best player I can.
771
01:32:06,755 --> 01:32:09,690
I wanna give you an opportunity to,
maybe someday...
772
01:32:09,791 --> 01:32:12,927
be one of those guys that makes
some money in Europe or in the NBA.
773
01:32:13,028 --> 01:32:16,530
You're one of seven guys
that we're recruiting right now.
774
01:32:16,631 --> 01:32:19,600
- You're recruiting seven guys?
- Seven guys for three spots.
775
01:32:32,380 --> 01:32:35,616
Well - Well, that's what
it's gonna come down to.
776
01:32:35,717 --> 01:32:38,586
If I tell you that, hey,
you're our guy and this and that...
777
01:32:38,687 --> 01:32:41,589
and I lose you to Kansas, Indiana,
North Carolina State or something...
778
01:32:41,690 --> 01:32:43,591
I'm out of luck.
779
01:32:43,692 --> 01:32:46,460
The president's saying to me,
"I thought you were recruiting a guard."
780
01:33:09,784 --> 01:33:11,685
[Ellis]
It's a great place.
781
01:33:11,786 --> 01:33:13,854
We're gettin' ready
to have it rockin'.
782
01:33:14,889 --> 01:33:17,825
The best is yet to come.
783
01:33:20,128 --> 01:33:23,130
Lot of serious ballplayers
been through this building -
784
01:33:23,231 --> 01:33:27,935
Junior Bridgeman, Sidney Moncrief,
Bob Lanier, Oscar Robertson.
785
01:33:33,975 --> 01:33:37,177
Big difference from St. Joe's, now.
786
01:33:41,283 --> 01:33:43,183
[William]
We stayed at the Hyatt.
787
01:33:43,285 --> 01:33:46,620
Man, it was nice. Real nice.
788
01:33:46,721 --> 01:33:50,224
They had these balloons
all hangin' up on the ceiling, everything.
789
01:33:50,325 --> 01:33:52,960
They - They really did it up.
790
01:33:53,061 --> 01:33:55,663
And I must say, we did it up too.
791
01:33:55,764 --> 01:34:01,001
We - Room service.
[Laughs] Man!
792
01:34:18,086 --> 01:34:20,888
Gates launches a running one-hander!
It's on the way!
793
01:34:20,989 --> 01:34:23,991
- It is good!
- [Tape: Fans Cheering]
794
01:34:24,092 --> 01:34:29,096
Gates buries a 13-footer
just ahead of the horn...
795
01:35:23,084 --> 01:35:27,020
Obviously, if you wait you'll have
all the other schools that were on you before...
796
01:35:27,122 --> 01:35:31,158
like Kansas and Indiana
and North Carolina State.
797
01:35:43,271 --> 01:35:45,139
- [Boy] Poop!
- Yeah!
798
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:47,474
- [Cork Pops]
- Yea!
799
01:35:47,542 --> 01:35:49,476
Boo!
800
01:35:49,577 --> 01:35:52,012
- [William Laughs]
- [Glasses Clink]
801
01:35:52,113 --> 01:35:54,148
Is there any cash with this?
802
01:35:54,249 --> 01:35:56,183
[Alvin Laughs]
Uh, it's in the mail.
803
01:36:17,005 --> 01:36:20,641
I am fixing him
a birthday dinner today.
804
01:36:30,118 --> 01:36:33,253
Everything that you can imagine
was going wrong with this family...
805
01:36:33,354 --> 01:36:36,123
but now everybody's together.
806
01:36:36,224 --> 01:36:38,492
It's his favorite cake.
807
01:36:38,593 --> 01:36:40,828
He's a great kid.
808
01:36:40,929 --> 01:36:44,364
And some kids don't live
to get this age, you know.
809
01:36:44,466 --> 01:36:47,701
That's another thing
to be proud about -
810
01:36:47,802 --> 01:36:50,938
that, you know,
it's his 18th birthday, he lived...
811
01:36:51,039 --> 01:36:54,875
and to get to see 18, that's good.
812
01:37:06,688 --> 01:37:08,589
- Ohh!
- Hey-hey!
813
01:37:08,690 --> 01:37:10,591
- Happy birthday!
- I love you too!
814
01:37:14,062 --> 01:37:16,296
- Where you goin', homes?
- [All Laughing]
815
01:37:16,397 --> 01:37:20,501
♪ Happy birthday, dear Arthur ♪
816
01:37:28,877 --> 01:37:31,278
[Narrator]
Two months after his 18th birthday...
817
01:37:31,379 --> 01:37:33,780
Arthur is cut off public aid.
818
01:37:53,868 --> 01:37:57,838
I was gettin' 368.
Now I get 268.
819
01:38:02,243 --> 01:38:05,746
And that's to take care of me
from one month to the next.
820
01:38:26,868 --> 01:38:29,469
[Tape: Man #1]
A message to the Oreo cookie.
821
01:38:29,571 --> 01:38:33,273
No matter how much you wanna switch,
here's what they think about you:
822
01:38:38,079 --> 01:38:41,248
big-thighed, fast-runnin',
high-jumpin', spear-chuckin'...
823
01:38:41,349 --> 01:38:44,818
360-degree basketball-dunkin'...
824
01:38:54,796 --> 01:38:56,663
[Frequencies Tuning]
825
01:38:56,764 --> 01:38:58,865
[Man #1] Play the music, motherfucker!
Put the music on!
826
01:38:58,967 --> 01:39:01,101
- Bam!
- [Rapping] ♪ Tune into the radio ♪
827
01:39:01,202 --> 01:39:04,104
♪ Listen for a minute
Yo, G, stick a fuckin' tape in it ♪♪
828
01:39:09,110 --> 01:39:10,711
Shoot it.
829
01:39:10,812 --> 01:39:14,915
[Man]
Rebound! Go, go, go!
830
01:39:34,569 --> 01:39:36,036
[Buzzer Buzzes]
831
01:39:36,137 --> 01:39:38,905
I don't believe the other players
have complete confidence in William.
832
01:39:40,575 --> 01:39:43,377
They were in awe of William
when he was a sophomore.
833
01:39:43,478 --> 01:39:45,812
They're not in awe of him anymore.
834
01:40:08,236 --> 01:40:10,170
[William]
Sophomore year...
835
01:40:10,271 --> 01:40:12,472
I was just carefree.
836
01:40:28,356 --> 01:40:29,823
[Pingatore]
Go!
837
01:40:31,192 --> 01:40:33,260
Hold up!
That's crap!
838
01:40:33,361 --> 01:40:35,862
That is dog-shit crap!
839
01:40:36,864 --> 01:40:39,566
Why did you have to
do something unnecessarily?
840
01:40:39,667 --> 01:40:43,904
If you would've kept it over here, William -
Look at me!
841
01:40:44,005 --> 01:40:48,442
If you had kept it over here, wide,
you could have gone all the way.
842
01:40:48,543 --> 01:40:52,045
What is that crap,
the shovel pass?
843
01:40:53,414 --> 01:40:55,816
[William]
There was never any point in our school...
844
01:40:55,917 --> 01:41:00,520
where we just -
just played outright, you know.
845
01:41:14,469 --> 01:41:17,904
[Chattering, Laughing]
846
01:41:39,093 --> 01:41:41,495
All that bullshit that you be playin' -
847
01:41:41,596 --> 01:41:44,765
You play half of a game, for two
or three minutes you play pretty good...
848
01:41:44,866 --> 01:41:46,767
then you go to sleep.
849
01:41:54,842 --> 01:41:58,345
[Bedford] When we start out,
Arthur will be completely in the ball game.
850
01:42:00,615 --> 01:42:04,284
But as the game progresses,
then he digresses.
851
01:42:40,121 --> 01:42:41,988
On a crucial possession...
852
01:42:42,089 --> 01:42:44,090
the ball goes to Arthur.
853
01:42:51,933 --> 01:42:55,969
[Buzzer Buzzes]
854
01:43:03,377 --> 01:43:07,747
Hey, Arthur G! You ever got rich,
they'd catch you for sure! Come here, dog!
855
01:43:07,849 --> 01:43:09,716
[Chattering, Laughing]
856
01:43:11,819 --> 01:43:14,521
I want it up high, G.
I want it up high.
857
01:43:14,622 --> 01:43:16,590
[Arthur Laughs]
858
01:43:16,657 --> 01:43:17,090
♪♪ [Rock]
859
01:43:17,091 --> 01:43:19,626
♪♪ [Rock]
860
01:43:24,632 --> 01:43:27,534
[Narrator]
Led by William's 16 points a game...
861
01:43:27,635 --> 01:43:30,003
the Chargers have a 20 and 3 record.
862
01:43:30,104 --> 01:43:33,039
But Coach Pingatore feels they're not ready
for the impending play-offs.
863
01:43:33,140 --> 01:43:36,042
[Pingatore]
Alabama! Alabama!
864
01:43:36,110 --> 01:43:37,911
Alabama!
865
01:43:40,715 --> 01:43:43,250
[Fans Cheering]
866
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:54,361
Will you quit cryin'!
867
01:43:55,396 --> 01:43:58,198
This team just drives me crazy.
868
01:43:59,233 --> 01:44:01,468
It's been a struggle all year.
869
01:44:02,536 --> 01:44:04,437
You think you're better than you are.
870
01:44:04,538 --> 01:44:06,706
The two big guys are prima donnas.
871
01:44:06,807 --> 01:44:09,576
They should be killin' people.
872
01:44:09,677 --> 01:44:12,545
For you people
that are really agonizing...
873
01:44:19,787 --> 01:44:21,788
so you won't have to worry about it.
874
01:44:21,889 --> 01:44:24,257
That's the point.
875
01:44:26,994 --> 01:44:29,930
I wanna end this game
in the next three to four minutes.
876
01:44:30,031 --> 01:44:32,966
Otherwise it's gonna be a ball game.
All right, let's go get 'em. Come on.
877
01:44:33,067 --> 01:44:34,968
Hail Mary, full of grace.
878
01:44:42,710 --> 01:44:45,111
[Pingatore]
William's just too nice of a kid.
879
01:44:45,212 --> 01:44:47,347
I don't know if he has
the killer temperament.
880
01:44:47,448 --> 01:44:49,916
I don't know if he has
the eye of the tiger.
881
01:44:52,653 --> 01:44:54,654
Remember, square up!
882
01:45:03,364 --> 01:45:06,866
♪♪ [Pep Band: Fight Song]
883
01:45:23,217 --> 01:45:25,585
- His coach is stingy and selfish.
- My coach is not -
884
01:45:25,686 --> 01:45:28,088
He just want William
to run out there and play -
885
01:45:28,189 --> 01:45:30,557
- My coach is not stingy and selfish.
- Yes, he is!
886
01:45:30,658 --> 01:45:34,027
The day she was gonna be born
I told him he had to be there.
887
01:45:34,128 --> 01:45:37,030
I don't care what his coach say.
I know the game was important.
888
01:45:37,131 --> 01:45:41,835
But this was more important,
and his coach doesn't see it like that.
889
01:45:53,381 --> 01:45:56,783
- [Alicia Cooing]
- That's what I was tryin' to get you to say.
890
01:45:56,884 --> 01:45:59,953
Especially around that time
of the year too - state tournament.
891
01:46:00,054 --> 01:46:02,589
It was simply out of the question.
892
01:46:08,863 --> 01:46:10,764
He keeps sayin' in the fu -
893
01:46:10,865 --> 01:46:13,299
Basketball was my ticket
out of the ghetto.
894
01:46:13,401 --> 01:46:16,302
If I wouldn't have been playin' ball,
I would not even be goin' to college.
895
01:46:16,404 --> 01:46:19,472
I'm goin' to college, and I have a daughter.
So what's my excuse?
896
01:46:29,216 --> 01:46:32,786
♪♪ [Stereo: Jazz Funk]
897
01:46:36,357 --> 01:46:39,325
♪♪ [Continues]
898
01:46:41,362 --> 01:46:43,763
[Alicia Babbling]
899
01:46:43,864 --> 01:46:47,467
- [Squeals]
- [Laughs]
900
01:46:54,141 --> 01:46:57,277
[Curtis]
I haven't been workin' for about a year.
901
01:47:00,915 --> 01:47:04,217
And if it wasn't for William
knowing Miss Wier...
902
01:47:04,318 --> 01:47:06,219
I wouldn't even be here.
903
01:47:10,958 --> 01:47:15,361
It ain't much better than a person
without a college degree can get.
904
01:47:32,813 --> 01:47:35,048
What you lookin' at?
905
01:47:35,149 --> 01:47:39,385
[Arthur] I don't believe people
when they be sayin', "Wow, school's hard!"
906
01:47:44,792 --> 01:47:47,660
If I gotta do, like,
a report or somethin'...
907
01:47:47,761 --> 01:47:51,631
I don't like none of the topics,
so I'll just pick somethin' that's simple.
908
01:48:04,411 --> 01:48:06,312
No, man!
909
01:48:06,413 --> 01:48:09,282
- I wanna hear it -
- I'm just doin' this stuff!
910
01:48:09,383 --> 01:48:11,951
I know, but I just wanna hear
how you write.
911
01:48:12,052 --> 01:48:14,420
"Well, as the people bloom
into another year..."
912
01:48:14,522 --> 01:48:17,123
You know, the year just changed,
January 1.
913
01:48:17,224 --> 01:48:19,125
"The butterfly also blooms.
914
01:48:19,226 --> 01:48:21,628
The butterfly are very beautiful
flying objects."
915
01:48:21,729 --> 01:48:25,765
Then it say at the beginning of the butterfly,
it goes through a change and all that.
916
01:48:25,866 --> 01:48:28,768
Then I keep goin', man.
I just wanna, like, do that stuff.
917
01:48:44,652 --> 01:48:47,754
- Millions of Americans break the law and use it.
- [Beep]
918
01:49:04,805 --> 01:49:06,673
Will you do me a favor?
919
01:49:06,774 --> 01:49:10,677
When you see things are slippin' like this,
give me a call and let me know.
920
01:49:10,778 --> 01:49:13,179
Let me make sure I have
the right phone number.
921
01:49:17,284 --> 01:49:20,687
I say, "Where your book?" "We didn't have to
work on the book. It's in my locker."
922
01:49:20,788 --> 01:49:23,489
He gonna have to start
showin' me somethin' better.
923
01:49:30,864 --> 01:49:33,733
But I'm gon' stay up on his behind
this time around.
924
01:50:00,661 --> 01:50:02,962
I don't need nobody to push me.
925
01:50:03,964 --> 01:50:08,034
All I gotta do is have the goal
and the motivation, and I'm ready.
926
01:50:08,135 --> 01:50:10,470
[Narrator]
It's Sheila's graduation day...
927
01:50:10,571 --> 01:50:13,439
from a nurse's assistants class
at a local community center.
928
01:50:13,540 --> 01:50:16,442
A high grade
will assure her certification.
929
01:50:35,763 --> 01:50:39,198
- You scored 89 on the exam.
- [Gasps]
930
01:50:39,300 --> 01:50:43,202
You're gonna get the highest
grade point average for the class.
931
01:50:43,304 --> 01:50:45,705
Really? Really?
932
01:50:45,806 --> 01:50:47,807
No, no, no, no!
[Laughing]
933
01:50:55,249 --> 01:50:57,483
Oh, thank you, Miss Martin!
934
01:50:57,584 --> 01:50:59,485
- [Laughs]
- You did it yourself.
935
01:50:59,586 --> 01:51:02,488
[Sobbing]
Oh, thank you.
936
01:51:11,365 --> 01:51:13,933
I didn't think I could do it.
[Continues Sobbing]
937
01:51:24,378 --> 01:51:27,046
Not just stop right here,
but go farther.
938
01:51:28,048 --> 01:51:30,950
And people told me
I wasn't gon' be anything.
939
01:51:43,097 --> 01:51:45,698
♪ I sing ♪
940
01:51:45,766 --> 01:51:48,468
♪ Because ♪
941
01:51:48,569 --> 01:51:51,371
♪ I'm happy ♪
942
01:51:55,776 --> 01:52:00,413
- Miss Sheila Agee.
- ♪ I'm free ♪
943
01:52:00,514 --> 01:52:02,615
♪ And his eye ♪
944
01:52:02,716 --> 01:52:08,588
♪ Is on the sparrow ♪
945
01:52:10,157 --> 01:52:12,625
♪ And I know ♪
946
01:52:12,726 --> 01:52:15,795
- ♪ He watches ♪
- [Applause Continues]
947
01:52:15,896 --> 01:52:19,065
♪ Over me ♪♪
948
01:52:28,742 --> 01:52:33,346
[Narrator] The gym is packed for today's
game against West Side rival, Westinghouse.
949
01:52:36,583 --> 01:52:40,186
Marshall's rebounded
from last year's dismal 9 and 16 record...
950
01:52:40,287 --> 01:52:42,288
to go 16 and six.
951
01:52:59,807 --> 01:53:03,376
A lot of these kids won't talk
to a junior college...
952
01:53:03,477 --> 01:53:06,045
really until after they've seen
the dream of, you know...
953
01:53:06,146 --> 01:53:09,549
Illinois and Nevada, Las Vegas
and Georgetown kind of fade.
954
01:53:20,961 --> 01:53:23,496
[Wilson]
It's just too bad those kids don't realize...
955
01:53:23,597 --> 01:53:27,200
hey, if they had an 18,
the door is so much wider open.
956
01:53:27,301 --> 01:53:30,870
- [Bedford] You're in the middle!
- ♪♪ [Pep Band]
957
01:53:39,012 --> 01:53:41,247
They trail by one.
958
01:53:48,722 --> 01:53:50,456
Defense!
959
01:53:52,993 --> 01:53:55,428
- [Crowd Cheers]
- [Yelling]
960
01:54:01,268 --> 01:54:05,438
[Narrator] Derrick Zinneman's layup
pushes Marshall to a one-point lead.
961
01:54:09,610 --> 01:54:14,514
and then a double technical puts Arthur
on the line with a chance to ice the victory.
962
01:54:14,615 --> 01:54:16,782
[Crowd Cheering]
963
01:54:29,062 --> 01:54:31,063
[Cheering]
964
01:54:51,318 --> 01:54:53,553
[Cheering]
965
01:55:10,571 --> 01:55:13,673
- Arthur Agee, you lead the books.
- Junior!
966
01:55:13,774 --> 01:55:16,842
You got seven.
967
01:55:16,944 --> 01:55:20,713
Seven turnovers.
Even for the guards, that's too many.
968
01:55:34,761 --> 01:55:37,630
[Tomika] Oh, Mom. You know he did good.
You're just killing me.
969
01:55:37,731 --> 01:55:40,132
[Laughing]
You know your mother's proud of you.
970
01:55:43,303 --> 01:55:46,439
Like a real star.
[Laughs]
971
01:55:46,540 --> 01:55:50,610
- [Crowd Cheering]
- [Man On PA] Number 11...
972
01:55:50,711 --> 01:55:54,714
Arthur Agee!
973
01:56:13,233 --> 01:56:15,267
- Where you been, man?
- Where I been?
974
01:56:15,369 --> 01:56:17,269
- Yeah. Where you been?
- I've been workin'.
975
01:56:31,652 --> 01:56:33,552
- Well, Jamal -
- You ain't there.
976
01:56:33,654 --> 01:56:37,123
- Yeah, you're right. I had to break out.
- Yeah.
977
01:56:43,130 --> 01:56:46,866
but I wasn't sure
if you had time to do it.
978
01:57:22,335 --> 01:57:24,637
[Cheering]
979
01:57:24,738 --> 01:57:29,008
♪♪ [Pep Band]
980
01:58:00,373 --> 01:58:03,809
- So you came in case
you have to play St. Joe's?
- Yeah.
981
01:58:03,910 --> 01:58:06,178
[Boy]
Arthur. Arthur. [Chuckles]
982
01:58:07,481 --> 01:58:10,316
[Chattering]
983
01:58:10,417 --> 01:58:12,318
- What's up, man?
- What's up, man?
984
01:58:12,419 --> 01:58:15,287
- What you been up to? You playing basketball?
- What? Yeah.
985
01:58:15,388 --> 01:58:17,490
- How'd you guys do?
- We did a'ight. Still playin'.
986
01:58:17,591 --> 01:58:19,825
Still playin'?
When's your next game?
987
01:58:19,926 --> 01:58:22,328
- We gotta play Crane. High school in Chicago.
- That's cool.
988
01:58:22,429 --> 01:58:24,363
It'll be all right.
989
01:58:42,048 --> 01:58:42,081
[Crowd Cheering]
990
01:58:42,082 --> 01:58:44,049
[Crowd Cheering]
991
01:59:02,903 --> 01:59:06,872
William enters the game to go head-to-head
with Nazareth star Sean Pearson...
992
01:59:06,973 --> 01:59:10,176
his friend and roommate
from the Nike camp.
993
01:59:28,562 --> 01:59:30,529
[Narrator]
But near the end of the game...
994
01:59:30,630 --> 01:59:32,631
St. Joe's begins to unravel.
995
01:59:38,939 --> 01:59:40,940
[Loud Cheering]
996
01:59:42,309 --> 01:59:44,243
[Narrator]
William takes control.
997
01:59:47,013 --> 01:59:49,715
- [Whistle Blows]
- [Loud Cheering]
998
02:00:19,346 --> 02:00:21,881
Down by one,
with just over a minute remaining.
999
02:00:27,420 --> 02:00:30,022
And for William,
there is no next year...
1000
02:00:30,123 --> 02:00:32,491
no more chances to get downstate.
1001
02:00:53,546 --> 02:00:56,415
[Crowd Cheering]
1002
02:02:30,410 --> 02:02:33,412
I'm trying to get it, man.
I'm striving for the same thing.
1003
02:02:36,916 --> 02:02:39,051
Hey, man. We'll call you.
Give me a ring. All right?
1004
02:02:39,152 --> 02:02:42,354
- All right.
- You played a good game, boy. All right.
1005
02:02:58,171 --> 02:03:00,539
The team was dressed and already talking.
1006
02:03:00,640 --> 02:03:03,308
Then he came strolling in.
1007
02:03:30,437 --> 02:03:35,307
Um, now we look back on it
as just one of those great moments in -
1008
02:03:35,408 --> 02:03:37,976
in our high school scene.
1009
02:03:38,078 --> 02:03:40,546
Our toughest loss to take,
and we talk about it.
1010
02:03:40,647 --> 02:03:43,682
So that's what I look at, you know,
with these things now.
1011
02:03:54,928 --> 02:03:56,361
- School.
- Yeah.
1012
02:03:56,463 --> 02:03:58,664
All right. I'm watching you score.
How's your grades?
1013
02:03:58,765 --> 02:04:00,666
- They're all right.
- Good.
1014
02:04:00,767 --> 02:04:02,668
- They're all right.
- We missed you.
1015
02:04:07,273 --> 02:04:09,641
Mr. Bedford said
a lot of good things about you.
1016
02:04:09,742 --> 02:04:12,144
- You be in touch. Okay?
- Okay. All right.
1017
02:04:12,245 --> 02:04:14,179
- Good luck.
- All right. You too.
1018
02:04:34,267 --> 02:04:36,135
[Crowd Cheering]
1019
02:04:38,138 --> 02:04:41,907
[Narrator] Marshall's second-round opponent,
Manley, presents little challenge.
1020
02:04:42,008 --> 02:04:45,344
This just explains a little bit
about our program...
1021
02:04:47,747 --> 02:04:50,382
I like what you're sayin',
and I want him close to home.
1022
02:05:02,162 --> 02:05:04,630
I'm Tommy Travis,
Northeastern Illinois assistant coach.
1023
02:05:10,737 --> 02:05:12,137
- I'm over at Kennedy-King.
- Kennedy-King?
1024
02:05:12,238 --> 02:05:14,139
- Yeah.
- Okay.
1025
02:05:14,240 --> 02:05:16,341
May the best man win.
1026
02:05:16,442 --> 02:05:20,112
- I thought mom was a cheerleader.
- Oh, thanks.
1027
02:05:23,383 --> 02:05:27,186
His parents seem to think
he may, uh, pass the ACT.
1028
02:05:52,579 --> 02:05:55,280
That's when you'll be
excited the whole year.
1029
02:05:55,381 --> 02:05:59,284
I'll be excited as soon as I step up
in there - first day of practice.
1030
02:06:00,720 --> 02:06:03,755
If I graduate, I think I'll be
the only one in my family...
1031
02:06:03,856 --> 02:06:06,725
besides my uncle,
to finish college.
1032
02:06:11,598 --> 02:06:14,132
[Narrator] In the fourth round
against heavily favored Taft...
1033
02:06:14,234 --> 02:06:17,236
Marshall meets their first
true test of the play-offs.
1034
02:06:18,771 --> 02:06:21,273
[Whistle Blows]
1035
02:06:21,374 --> 02:06:24,142
But the Commandos have been
bucking the odds all year.
1036
02:06:34,220 --> 02:06:37,356
Arthur plays one of his best games
of the season...
1037
02:06:37,457 --> 02:06:39,358
scoring 19 points...
1038
02:06:51,304 --> 02:06:53,438
[Indistinct]
1039
02:06:58,678 --> 02:07:01,380
Do you guys feel you can play with
any team in the city?
1040
02:07:01,481 --> 02:07:04,216
On any given day, we can play with anybody.
We can beat anybody.
1041
02:07:18,498 --> 02:07:21,933
King High School,
the rulers of the public league.
1042
02:07:36,015 --> 02:07:40,452
[Bedford] We don't understand what
we're really doing to these young kids.
1043
02:07:46,893 --> 02:07:48,994
Falls back in the paint.
1044
02:07:49,095 --> 02:07:51,797
I'm not going to start
recruiting in that manner.
1045
02:08:04,077 --> 02:08:06,578
[Cheerleaders Shouting]
1046
02:08:09,749 --> 02:08:15,153
[Narrator] King's strategy is to
go inside to its two seven-foot starters.
1047
02:08:29,168 --> 02:08:31,970
And King's poor play
keeps the game close.
1048
02:08:35,675 --> 02:08:37,843
I think they gonna take it.
1049
02:08:38,845 --> 02:08:42,347
[Narrator]
But in the second half, King makes their move.
1050
02:08:46,119 --> 02:08:48,286
- What are you doin'?
- [Man] Come on. Get in the game!
1051
02:08:48,388 --> 02:08:50,822
[Narrator]
King grabs a four-point lead.
1052
02:08:50,923 --> 02:08:53,325
Hey, Mookie, Mookie, Mookie!
1053
02:08:53,426 --> 02:08:55,794
Y'all playing
with no confidence whatsoever.
1054
02:09:19,852 --> 02:09:22,087
- [Whistle Blows]
- [Loud Cheering]
1055
02:09:22,155 --> 02:09:24,990
[Yelling]
1056
02:09:26,826 --> 02:09:28,727
[Chattering]
1057
02:09:29,796 --> 02:09:32,931
[Bedford] Players, sit down.
We got three minutes to go. Sit down.
1058
02:09:33,032 --> 02:09:36,134
[Narrator]
Marshall grabs a six-point lead late in the game.
1059
02:10:25,117 --> 02:10:28,787
For the defending national champions,
it's all over.
1060
02:10:28,888 --> 02:10:31,523
- ♪♪ [Pep Band]
- ♪♪ [Singing]
1061
02:10:34,560 --> 02:10:37,863
And unranked Marshall
will play for the city title.
1062
02:10:41,501 --> 02:10:43,502
♪♪ [Singing, Indistinct]
1063
02:10:55,448 --> 02:10:59,684
Whoo! 26 and 2 now!
1064
02:11:14,767 --> 02:11:16,668
I knew y'all was going all the way.
I told ya.
1065
02:11:16,769 --> 02:11:18,703
I said, "You're going all the way."
1066
02:11:19,705 --> 02:11:23,108
This is your last year.
You're going all the way. Yeah.
1067
02:11:25,144 --> 02:11:28,246
[Sheila]
They got the best shot of him, you know.
1068
02:11:28,347 --> 02:11:31,750
And it's great. That was a great shot, wasn't it?
[Laughs]
1069
02:11:31,851 --> 02:11:36,388
But this one in the, uh, Tribune
is what I really like.
1070
02:11:36,489 --> 02:11:40,292
It says,
"Arthur Agee stood as still as a statue.
1071
02:11:40,393 --> 02:11:43,762
Time after time was on his side."
1072
02:11:47,300 --> 02:11:49,200
Yeah.
1073
02:11:49,302 --> 02:11:52,938
Twenty-one years later I got a chance
at getting a championship through him.
1074
02:11:53,039 --> 02:11:55,574
You know, you're always trying to
build your children up...
1075
02:11:55,675 --> 02:11:57,576
and saying, "Well, you-all can do it"...
1076
02:11:57,677 --> 02:12:00,478
but, you know, really lying on
the inside a little bit, saying...
1077
02:12:00,580 --> 02:12:02,480
"Well, you know, you got a long haul."
1078
02:12:02,582 --> 02:12:04,649
But, you know,
this make you even more confidence...
1079
02:12:04,750 --> 02:12:07,686
because if he's sure of hisself,
then you know you can bank on it.
1080
02:12:12,391 --> 02:12:15,060
And, you know, I haven't heard that
in, uh - You know.
1081
02:12:15,161 --> 02:12:19,631
You can feel it, but I haven't heard it
coming verbally from him.
1082
02:12:48,094 --> 02:12:50,895
- [Whistle Blows]
- [Announcer] Busts this game wide open.
1083
02:12:50,997 --> 02:12:55,367
Did you see that?
Did you see it? Did you see it?
1084
02:12:56,802 --> 02:12:59,871
[Announcer]
They are celebrating because they know...
1085
02:12:59,972 --> 02:13:03,008
their high school is headed
to the elite eight in Champaign.
1086
02:13:03,109 --> 02:13:06,578
[Crowd Cheering]
1087
02:13:06,679 --> 02:13:10,482
[Announcer] And the Marshall Commandos
have won the Public League Championship...
1088
02:13:28,734 --> 02:13:31,703
[All Yelling]
1089
02:13:39,979 --> 02:13:42,814
[All]
Marshall, baby. Marshall!
1090
02:13:42,882 --> 02:13:44,783
Marshall!
1091
02:13:44,884 --> 02:13:48,687
Marshall! Marshall!
1092
02:14:06,172 --> 02:14:08,907
Uh, you've taken the test -
Now, this was for the fourth time.
1093
02:14:09,008 --> 02:14:12,510
Now, if you add all those up,
it comes out to 17.2.
1094
02:14:12,611 --> 02:14:15,380
In order to play at Marquette,
you're gonna have to get the 18.
1095
02:14:15,481 --> 02:14:17,382
And they're very, very concerned.
1096
02:14:17,483 --> 02:14:21,453
One assistant called twice this week,
and Bo Ellis called today.
1097
02:14:23,556 --> 02:14:26,191
Smile, William.
It's not the end of the world.
1098
02:14:26,292 --> 02:14:28,226
- Right?
- I hope not.
1099
02:14:28,327 --> 02:14:31,563
Well, you gotta work at this
as hard as you worked at your jump shot.
1100
02:14:31,664 --> 02:14:34,165
And it was missing a lot this year.
1101
02:14:34,266 --> 02:14:36,234
Okay.
[Laughing]
1102
02:14:36,335 --> 02:14:39,904
Now you are down to the final inning
and the last strike.
1103
02:14:41,741 --> 02:14:43,675
[Sighs]
1104
02:14:46,312 --> 02:14:49,247
We're going, going downstate!
We're going downstate!
1105
02:14:49,348 --> 02:14:52,517
Now let's, let's celebrate!
Now let's celebrate!
1106
02:14:55,488 --> 02:14:58,356
[Bedford]
Your Marshall Commandos!
1107
02:15:12,705 --> 02:15:15,306
[Chattering]
1108
02:15:33,025 --> 02:15:35,860
[Cheerleaders Shouting]
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A!
1109
02:15:35,961 --> 02:15:38,963
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A!
1110
02:15:39,064 --> 02:15:43,201
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A!
1111
02:16:04,623 --> 02:16:06,758
[Announcers Chattering]
1112
02:16:06,859 --> 02:16:10,929
[Narrator] In the media glare of a statewide
audience, Marshall shows big-game jitters.
1113
02:16:11,030 --> 02:16:12,964
[Announcer]
Now bust out.
1114
02:16:13,065 --> 02:16:15,934
And Marshall missed the layup.
1115
02:16:17,403 --> 02:16:19,838
Sealed off, blocked by Williams.
1116
02:16:19,939 --> 02:16:23,842
You got easy shots.
You gotta make your easy shots.
1117
02:16:30,816 --> 02:16:35,720
Luther Bedford looks like
he's ready to commit suicide over there.
1118
02:16:46,232 --> 02:16:48,132
One, one, one, one!
1119
02:17:00,145 --> 02:17:04,315
Yes! That's the way you go!
1120
02:17:04,416 --> 02:17:06,584
- [Announcer #2] Here we go.
- [Announcer #1] Picked him clean.
1121
02:17:11,924 --> 02:17:14,926
[Announcer #1] Like a lightning bolt,
the Commandos have struck.
1122
02:17:32,077 --> 02:17:33,978
When I was at St. Joseph...
1123
02:17:34,079 --> 02:17:36,681
maybe we could have went downstate,
and maybe we couldn't.
1124
02:17:36,782 --> 02:17:39,751
But we did when I'm at Marshall.
1125
02:17:53,332 --> 02:17:55,934
[Narrator]
Arthur's big fourth quarter helps add Batavia...
1126
02:17:56,035 --> 02:17:57,969
to Marshall's growing list of upsets.
1127
02:17:58,070 --> 02:18:01,639
[Announcer] Spectacular comeback
in the fourth quarter by the Commandos -
1128
02:18:01,740 --> 02:18:03,675
[Narrator]
In the postgame news conference...
1129
02:18:03,776 --> 02:18:07,011
Coach Bedford labels
his unranked team "the giant killers."
1130
02:18:15,821 --> 02:18:19,691
This is the first time in the history
of the school that we've gone this far.
1131
02:18:19,792 --> 02:18:22,427
- Really?
- In the history of the school.
1132
02:18:52,491 --> 02:18:55,660
[Sheila] Yeah. This is really,
you know, something that a -
1133
02:18:55,761 --> 02:18:58,363
a child would really miss out on.
1134
02:18:58,464 --> 02:19:01,032
Like a whole different world.
1135
02:19:39,138 --> 02:19:42,840
He can get downcourt
as quick as anyone I've ever seen.
1136
02:19:42,941 --> 02:19:44,842
[Narrator]
In the semifinals...
1137
02:19:44,943 --> 02:19:48,312
Arthur goes head-to-head
with Howard Nathan, the all-American.
1138
02:19:48,414 --> 02:19:51,482
Make him work for it, Man.
Make him work for what he get.
1139
02:19:52,484 --> 02:19:55,653
All right! Let's go!
All the way, Man! All the way!
1140
02:19:56,955 --> 02:19:59,957
Yeah! That's it! That's it! That's it!
1141
02:20:00,059 --> 02:20:04,695
[Announcer]
Arthur Agee, spinning inside, tough shot. Good.
1142
02:20:11,003 --> 02:20:13,438
[Announcer]
He's got it.
1143
02:20:14,440 --> 02:20:17,141
Get up for the Rams!
Everybody get up!
1144
02:20:30,556 --> 02:20:33,391
[Narrator]
But it's the Rams who don't miss a beat...
1145
02:20:33,492 --> 02:20:35,426
pressing the tempo against
the tired Commandos.
1146
02:20:35,527 --> 02:20:38,196
You're not in the offense at all.
1147
02:20:38,297 --> 02:20:40,932
You're just out there
playing individual basketball.
1148
02:20:41,033 --> 02:20:42,934
Completely.
1149
02:20:43,035 --> 02:20:47,071
Hey, hey, guys. No fouls.
We want to keep the clock going. Remember?
1150
02:20:52,144 --> 02:20:55,213
[Announcer] Marshall showed us last night
they have the ability to come back.
1151
02:20:55,314 --> 02:20:57,381
Let's see what they can do here.
1152
02:21:11,997 --> 02:21:14,098
This is Nathan.
1153
02:21:14,199 --> 02:21:16,100
Nice pass.
Knock it down.
1154
02:21:16,201 --> 02:21:20,037
Biggest lead of the game now,
and the Rams fans can smell it.
1155
02:21:21,507 --> 02:21:24,408
Been a great run
for Luther Bedford's team.
1156
02:21:25,410 --> 02:21:27,812
- The string of upsets stops here.
- [Whistle Blowing]
1157
02:21:29,414 --> 02:21:32,416
- And a foul on Agee.
- [Announcer #2] He fouls out.
1158
02:21:32,518 --> 02:21:35,720
But he just never quit.
He just kept going for the basketball.
1159
02:21:36,722 --> 02:21:38,723
[Horn Blows]
1160
02:22:08,053 --> 02:22:09,987
We're still number one.
1161
02:22:10,088 --> 02:22:11,989
- [Whistle Blows]
- All right. All right.
1162
02:22:12,090 --> 02:22:14,091
[Narrator]
Though they lose to Peoria Manual...
1163
02:22:14,193 --> 02:22:19,363
they finish third in the state, the highest
a Marshall team has finished since 1960.
1164
02:22:25,470 --> 02:22:30,575
There is nothing sweeter
than going downstate as a young person.
1165
02:22:36,615 --> 02:22:38,849
- You know, and you're part of that.
- [Man] Yeah.
1166
02:22:38,951 --> 02:22:41,085
- That's part of history.
- Ah!
1167
02:22:41,186 --> 02:22:44,355
But for you seniors, you know -
1168
02:22:49,628 --> 02:22:52,129
Mr. Williams and I
will be around school...
1169
02:22:52,231 --> 02:22:54,131
as we always are -
[Clears Throat]
1170
02:22:54,233 --> 02:22:57,001
to help you if you want to be helped, okay?
1171
02:22:59,204 --> 02:23:02,940
Winning five games in six days,
that really takes a lot out of you.
1172
02:23:03,041 --> 02:23:06,043
Like Coach said, you just gotta sacrifice -
1173
02:23:06,144 --> 02:23:08,145
you know, sacrifice everything you have.
1174
02:23:08,247 --> 02:23:11,916
Like, if you love the game of basketball,
you just go out there and give all your heart.
1175
02:23:12,017 --> 02:23:15,086
He got a little ways to go,
but he's - he's gonna get there.
1176
02:23:15,187 --> 02:23:17,722
Hopefully he's got his head
screwed on pretty good, you know...
1177
02:23:17,823 --> 02:23:21,993
and now, you know,
he's gonna be on his own to do whatever.
1178
02:23:27,833 --> 02:23:31,302
They lookin' like: "Who they got on their team?"
I had to come out and prove myself.
1179
02:23:31,403 --> 02:23:35,139
I think I could play Division I basketball.
1180
02:23:35,240 --> 02:23:39,210
'Cause all I need is just a scholarship.
That's - That's all I'm looking for.
1181
02:23:39,311 --> 02:23:41,279
[Man On PA]
Arthur Agee.
1182
02:23:46,518 --> 02:23:48,519
All right!
1183
02:24:08,874 --> 02:24:12,176
[Man] All this area through here
is our new computer labs.
1184
02:24:18,717 --> 02:24:24,121
The strength that I see here
is the tremendous teaching that goes on here.
1185
02:24:32,964 --> 02:24:35,533
That, and, uh -
I like that and accounting.
1186
02:24:35,634 --> 02:24:37,968
- Like business.
- Oh. Okay.
1187
02:24:38,070 --> 02:24:42,006
We enjoy winning things,
but the primary purpose is your education.
1188
02:24:53,618 --> 02:24:55,920
[Gray]
This is where it all happens.
1189
02:24:56,021 --> 02:24:59,123
Beautiful place.
And it gets to rockin'.
1190
02:24:59,224 --> 02:25:02,126
- You gonna try it on there?
- [Arthur] Yeah.
1191
02:25:12,871 --> 02:25:14,772
with two years
of your college finished...
1192
02:25:14,873 --> 02:25:18,542
a scholarship to a Division I university.
1193
02:25:18,643 --> 02:25:22,980
Exactly where you'd want to be -
on track to graduate in four years.
1194
02:25:28,453 --> 02:25:30,654
♪ My man Ben pulled a mack move
and called a mack ♪
1195
02:25:30,756 --> 02:25:34,058
♪ To attack, take a track
and stack it fat like a brother ♪
1196
02:25:54,713 --> 02:25:58,315
All the ballplayers
on scholarship live here.
1197
02:25:58,417 --> 02:26:00,851
[Man]
Get your ass up, nigga.
1198
02:26:00,952 --> 02:26:02,887
[Chattering]
1199
02:26:04,923 --> 02:26:07,391
[Narrator] Of the seven blacks
in the entire school...
1200
02:26:07,492 --> 02:26:09,493
six live in this house.
1201
02:26:19,337 --> 02:26:21,238
Try to make a little home, you know.
1202
02:26:28,980 --> 02:26:31,248
We know who to trust,
who not to trust.
1203
02:26:33,552 --> 02:26:36,787
[Arthur] I just want to go somewhere
where I'm gonna play.
1204
02:26:36,888 --> 02:26:38,889
I can get the grades.
1205
02:26:42,160 --> 02:26:44,161
I love basketball.
1206
02:26:54,439 --> 02:26:58,876
How many of your players that leave there
and they end up going to a four-year college?
1207
02:26:58,977 --> 02:27:00,878
- Thirty-one sophomores in a row.
- Really?
1208
02:27:08,854 --> 02:27:13,224
She asked him to return today
over Arthur's objections.
1209
02:27:13,325 --> 02:27:15,593
[Gray] I'll show you exactly
what the scholarship entails.
1210
02:27:15,694 --> 02:27:18,462
[Sheila]
Is this a full scholarship for the two years?
1211
02:27:18,563 --> 02:27:22,967
The reason I'm skeptical is because of
the promises that was made in the past.
1212
02:27:23,068 --> 02:27:27,137
[Gray] From the time
he comes down there until he leaves,
you will not have a financial need.
1213
02:27:27,239 --> 02:27:30,007
Now, when you make this decision...
1214
02:27:46,291 --> 02:27:48,559
we will still pay -
if you have to try to pay -
1215
02:27:48,660 --> 02:27:50,694
if we can put some -
I'm just sayin'.
1216
02:27:50,795 --> 02:27:54,398
You - Understand what you're saying.
You want to save somebody money, but still -
1217
02:27:54,499 --> 02:27:56,600
But you have to still do
what is best from here.
1218
02:27:56,701 --> 02:28:00,137
But still we want the best for you -
even if you have to -
1219
02:28:02,607 --> 02:28:06,243
You understand what I'm saying?
I'm just saying. But still,
the decision is up to you.
1220
02:28:27,933 --> 02:28:30,100
- What time is it?
- [Gray] 1:56.
1221
02:28:30,168 --> 02:28:32,169
1:56.
1222
02:28:53,024 --> 02:28:54,692
Aw!
1223
02:28:54,793 --> 02:28:56,760
- You want to see it rain?
- [Sheila Laughing]
1224
02:28:56,861 --> 02:28:59,763
- [Bo] Let it rain!
- [Sheila Shouting, Laughing]
1225
02:28:59,864 --> 02:29:02,299
- You want to see it rain?
- [Sheila] One more time.
1226
02:29:06,972 --> 02:29:09,306
Let it rain!
1227
02:29:09,374 --> 02:29:11,375
Oh!
1228
02:29:13,144 --> 02:29:15,779
Peoria Manual.
Remember what they did to you now.
1229
02:29:27,726 --> 02:29:30,461
[Woman] You better stick to church music,
leave that basketball alone.
1230
02:29:30,562 --> 02:29:32,529
[Laughing]
1231
02:29:39,537 --> 02:29:41,705
- [All Yelling]
- Foul! Foul!
1232
02:29:54,052 --> 02:29:56,587
- He didn't hit nothing else!
- It's 34-28, Bo.
1233
02:29:56,688 --> 02:29:58,589
- Bo's a sore loser.
- All right!
1234
02:30:02,127 --> 02:30:04,228
- Yeah.
- Ain't no con game going on no more.
1235
02:30:04,329 --> 02:30:07,464
- No more. Ain't no more.
- The score is 32 to 28.
1236
02:30:07,565 --> 02:30:10,134
Now, you can play for 32 if you want to.
1237
02:30:10,235 --> 02:30:12,603
Game over with.
I can con too.
1238
02:30:12,704 --> 02:30:15,005
Losers quit. I'm ready to play.
1239
02:30:15,106 --> 02:30:16,940
Now, youse a coward if you don't -
Check ball.
1240
02:30:17,042 --> 02:30:19,176
- You're mad now.
- Check ball.
1241
02:30:19,277 --> 02:30:22,479
- Throw it over there.
- You ain't two years old.
You ain't gettin' no pacifier.
1242
02:30:24,582 --> 02:30:27,418
Your mama ain't here
to give you this ball. Let's go.
1243
02:30:27,519 --> 02:30:30,054
- Give me the rock.
- Let's make it rain. Make it rain.
1244
02:30:30,155 --> 02:30:32,056
- ♪ It feels good ♪
- Right there.
1245
02:30:32,157 --> 02:30:34,625
- [All Shouting]
- Bang. Bang. Right there.
1246
02:30:34,726 --> 02:30:37,695
Ha! Go sit down.
Go sit down.
1247
02:30:47,205 --> 02:30:50,974
And you're on punishment
when you get home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1248
02:30:52,377 --> 02:30:54,511
[Girl]
It's gonna rain on your head, Bo.
1249
02:30:54,612 --> 02:30:56,780
[Chattering]
1250
02:31:02,087 --> 02:31:05,756
and welcome to St. Joseph's
Annual Basketball Awards Dinner.
1251
02:31:05,824 --> 02:31:08,592
We had a...
1252
02:31:08,693 --> 02:31:10,694
difficult year.
1253
02:31:10,795 --> 02:31:12,696
Most of you are aware of that.
1254
02:31:16,067 --> 02:31:17,968
That was all I did.
1255
02:31:18,069 --> 02:31:22,206
But it became more of a job
than a sport to play.
1256
02:31:25,343 --> 02:31:30,314
[William] You know, Coach Pingatore
just had these dreams in his head.
1257
02:31:32,283 --> 02:31:36,353
He just wanted me to go
the same route he took Isiah.
1258
02:31:37,355 --> 02:31:40,190
The most steals.
1259
02:31:45,363 --> 02:31:48,665
[William] You know, basketball was just like -
He was possessed with it.
1260
02:31:48,767 --> 02:31:50,834
You know, it was his life.
1261
02:31:55,974 --> 02:31:57,941
All-state in the Sun-Times.
1262
02:31:58,042 --> 02:32:01,078
A McDonald All-American nomination.
1263
02:32:26,204 --> 02:32:28,272
[William]
When I had some real problems...
1264
02:32:28,373 --> 02:32:30,841
I couldn't go to
none of them about it.
1265
02:32:32,977 --> 02:32:36,313
You know, I was having some problems
with Catherine's family and my family...
1266
02:32:36,414 --> 02:32:40,784
and I said, you know, "Coach Pingatore,
their family's been getting on me about...
1267
02:32:40,885 --> 02:32:43,987
you know, I'm not doing this,
and I'm not doing that."
1268
02:32:44,088 --> 02:32:46,557
And the only thing
Coach Pingatore could say is...
1269
02:32:47,559 --> 02:32:49,459
"Write 'em off."
1270
02:32:49,561 --> 02:32:54,131
That was all he told me.
And I was, like, "What kind of advice is that?"
1271
02:33:03,474 --> 02:33:05,943
Uh, I mean -
1272
02:33:07,745 --> 02:33:09,746
Now, don't say anything
you don't mean, William.
1273
02:33:09,848 --> 02:33:12,816
I mean, I'm serious, Coach.
I enjoyed my four years.
1274
02:33:15,486 --> 02:33:17,387
- Who had run-ins?
- Me and you.
1275
02:33:17,488 --> 02:33:20,657
- We did?
- Yeah. Like that time
you made me run 75 stairs.
1276
02:33:20,758 --> 02:33:22,759
- I never f -
- You never forgot that.
1277
02:33:29,500 --> 02:33:34,004
But someday
you're gonna learn that, uh...
1278
02:33:34,105 --> 02:33:36,373
everything that was done
was for your benefit.
1279
02:33:36,474 --> 02:33:41,345
So that you can come back four years from now
and say, "Coach, you were right.
1280
02:33:41,446 --> 02:33:43,881
"Everything that happened
at St. Joe's helped me a lot...
1281
02:33:43,982 --> 02:33:45,949
and as a result I got a degree."
1282
02:33:46,050 --> 02:33:47,951
That's what I'm hoping for.
1283
02:33:48,052 --> 02:33:50,387
I'm going into communication...
1284
02:34:24,756 --> 02:34:26,924
- Okay.
- I expect you to do a lot better.
1285
02:34:27,025 --> 02:34:28,926
I don't want this to be the -
1286
02:34:29,027 --> 02:34:30,994
- Yeah.
- You know, the highlight of your career.
1287
02:34:31,095 --> 02:34:33,797
You've got a lot of
bigger and better things to do.
1288
02:34:33,898 --> 02:34:36,333
I'll see you later.
Good luck.
1289
02:34:39,604 --> 02:34:41,605
Well...
1290
02:34:42,840 --> 02:34:45,976
another one walks out the door,
and another one comes in the door.
1291
02:34:46,077 --> 02:34:48,045
That's what it's all about.
1292
02:35:34,058 --> 02:35:35,993
I'm eligible.
1293
02:35:37,228 --> 02:35:41,565
You know, this is one of the greatest feelings
in the world. That's about it.
1294
02:35:41,632 --> 02:35:43,567
I mean -
1295
02:35:55,179 --> 02:35:57,180
[Drills Whirring In Distance]
1296
02:36:05,523 --> 02:36:08,191
♪♪ [Band: "Pomp And Circumstance"]
1297
02:36:09,694 --> 02:36:09,760
♪♪ [Continues]
1298
02:36:09,761 --> 02:36:12,195
♪♪ [Continues]
1299
02:36:23,241 --> 02:36:27,010
all through high school
really, really was proud of me.
1300
02:36:30,081 --> 02:36:33,517
but you got to throw
your own dreams into yourself."
1301
02:36:33,618 --> 02:36:35,819
♪♪ [Continues]
1302
02:36:45,630 --> 02:36:50,200
she was, like,
"This is it, one of my proudest moments."
1303
02:36:56,641 --> 02:36:58,642
[Chattering]
1304
02:37:03,548 --> 02:37:05,715
My baby graduated.
1305
02:37:13,157 --> 02:37:16,059
and his grades weren't
good enough for him to go...
1306
02:37:16,160 --> 02:37:20,163
and now it's like
he got the grades, you know?
1307
02:37:22,333 --> 02:37:25,502
[Woman] Excuse me, Curtis.
You gonna give anybody else a chance?
1308
02:37:25,603 --> 02:37:28,672
What two countries
are we competing with for world trade?
1309
02:37:28,773 --> 02:37:32,209
[Narrator] Before Arthur can graduate,
he must pass summer school.
1310
02:37:51,129 --> 02:37:53,263
[Chattering]
1311
02:37:54,465 --> 02:37:58,368
[Arthur] We always said we weren't
gonna never do no stuff like that.
1312
02:37:58,469 --> 02:38:02,372
We were just gonna go on
and graduate and go on to college.
1313
02:38:02,473 --> 02:38:05,876
But, you know, he had to be the one.
1314
02:38:09,981 --> 02:38:12,382
[Chattering]
1315
02:38:21,459 --> 02:38:25,195
At first I thought he was gonna shoot me
because I didn't have no money.
1316
02:38:26,197 --> 02:38:29,733
'Cause he kept asking me, "You got -
You got some money. Where your wallet at?"
1317
02:38:29,834 --> 02:38:33,970
Be like, "What you driving a car like this for?"
I was, like, "I ain't got no wallet."
1318
02:38:39,810 --> 02:38:44,214
and I was about to panic and stuff,
and I just calmed down.
1319
02:38:47,752 --> 02:38:51,188
[Bo] I sit down
and had a long talk with him and his sister.
1320
02:39:40,271 --> 02:39:44,207
♪ There's quite enough hope ♪
1321
02:39:56,053 --> 02:40:00,557
♪ For we are the future ♪
1322
02:40:01,559 --> 02:40:05,595
♪ We are the future ♪
1323
02:40:05,696 --> 02:40:07,697
[Woman]
James Davis.
1324
02:40:13,504 --> 02:40:19,276
- ♪ And we're here in this very room ♪♪
- [Woman] Diana Stapleton.
1325
02:40:19,377 --> 02:40:21,911
- Arthur Agee.
- ♪♪ [Vocalizing]
1326
02:40:24,081 --> 02:40:27,851
Please hold your applause
so everyone can hear.
1327
02:40:27,952 --> 02:40:29,919
Christine Bowman.
1328
02:40:30,021 --> 02:40:32,355
♪♪ [Piano: "Pomp And Circumstance"]
1329
02:40:32,423 --> 02:40:34,424
Erica Byrd.
1330
02:40:37,328 --> 02:40:39,529
Sandra Crockett.
1331
02:40:47,905 --> 02:40:52,976
Arthur's self-esteem
was really drained from St. Joseph's.
1332
02:40:53,077 --> 02:40:55,645
I said, "Well, you are somebody.
1333
02:40:55,746 --> 02:40:58,515
No matter where you go,
it's what you have in your heart...
1334
02:40:58,616 --> 02:41:01,384
that you're gonna go somewhere."
1335
02:41:14,198 --> 02:41:16,800
Come on.
Move out of the way, boy.
1336
02:41:16,867 --> 02:41:18,768
♪♪ [Ends]
1337
02:41:18,869 --> 02:41:18,902
[Chattering]
1338
02:41:18,903 --> 02:41:20,937
[Chattering]
1339
02:41:25,209 --> 02:41:27,110
- You know it.
- ♪♪ [Hip-hop]
1340
02:41:27,211 --> 02:41:29,913
- These flame-broiled burgers -
- ♪♪ [Continues]
1341
02:41:30,014 --> 02:41:32,282
♪ Right where you're
standing 'cause, uh ♪
1342
02:41:36,020 --> 02:41:37,921
♪ Real live band ♪
1343
02:41:40,858 --> 02:41:43,059
♪♪ [Continues, Indistinct]
1344
02:41:44,462 --> 02:41:47,497
♪ Real live band ♪♪
1345
02:42:06,016 --> 02:42:09,753
- [Sheila] I thought you might
hit me in my head, fool.
- I didn't hit you in your head.
1346
02:42:09,854 --> 02:42:11,888
[Sheila]
To my son.
1347
02:42:11,989 --> 02:42:15,492
I hope you pursue all your dreams
and your desires...
1348
02:42:15,593 --> 02:42:17,560
that you have within you.
1349
02:42:17,661 --> 02:42:19,929
I love you very much.
1350
02:42:20,030 --> 02:42:23,700
- Ooh, that is so nice.
- Whatever.
1351
02:42:23,801 --> 02:42:26,336
- ♪♪ [Drums]
- [Girl] Oh, no!
1352
02:42:58,903 --> 02:43:01,604
And we ask you, Father,
when he get in college, Lord...
1353
02:43:06,010 --> 02:43:08,978
- In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
- [All] Amen.
1354
02:43:09,079 --> 02:43:13,116
- [Bo] Oh, you can cry like a river, girl.
- [Laughs]
1355
02:43:13,217 --> 02:43:15,752
You're crying so bad,
I won't even make fun of you.
1356
02:43:15,853 --> 02:43:18,922
- [Sniffles]
- [Chattering]
1357
02:43:22,059 --> 02:43:24,027
[Whispers]
Oh, God.
1358
02:43:24,128 --> 02:43:26,129
[Chattering]
1359
02:43:53,190 --> 02:43:55,892
I done told you what to do.
1360
02:43:55,993 --> 02:43:59,295
Don't get no alcohol, no wine coolers.
1361
02:44:19,583 --> 02:44:21,584
[Child]
Bye-bye.
1362
02:44:25,923 --> 02:44:29,959
I just hope he stay in there.
That's what worries me most.
1363
02:44:31,695 --> 02:44:35,498
Once he get in the door,
I want him to stay in there for four years.
1364
02:45:18,475 --> 02:45:22,679
[Arthur] When I was young - When I was little,
that's all I used to think about - the NBA.
1365
02:45:25,015 --> 02:45:27,350
If I set my mind, I can - I can go.
1366
02:45:27,451 --> 02:45:29,352
I can st - I can go.
1367
02:45:32,890 --> 02:45:36,392
But if I don't, you know, I ain't gonna be
no drug dealer, you know...
1368
02:45:51,041 --> 02:45:55,845
[Man] You don't think that you'll have the kind
of tough times like your dad's been through?
1369
02:45:55,913 --> 02:45:58,615
No.
1370
02:45:58,716 --> 02:46:03,052
I can't say - I can't say that I will.
I can't say that I don't. I don't know.
1371
02:46:28,278 --> 02:46:32,982
[William] Four years ago, that's all
I used to dream about was playing in the NBA.
1372
02:46:33,083 --> 02:46:35,485
I don't really dream about it
like that anymore.
1373
02:46:36,487 --> 02:46:39,222
You know, even though...
1374
02:46:39,323 --> 02:46:42,258
I love playing basketball,
but, you know...
1375
02:46:42,359 --> 02:46:45,094
I want to do other things
with my life too.
1376
02:46:47,364 --> 02:46:49,666
- "How you doing?"
- How you doing?
1377
02:46:49,767 --> 02:46:51,701
- Say, "I love you."
- I love you.
1378
02:46:52,770 --> 02:46:57,073
[William] If I had to stop playing basketball
right now, I think I'd still be happy.
1379
02:46:57,174 --> 02:47:00,009
- I think I would.
- [Alicia] Thank you, Daddy.
1380
02:47:00,110 --> 02:47:02,845
- [Catherine] Where'd Daddy get to?
- [Alicia] Uh, Marquette.
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[Catherine]
Marquette?
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02:47:06,950 --> 02:47:09,318
[William] That's why when
somebody say, you know...
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02:47:09,420 --> 02:47:12,488
"When you get to the NBA,
don't forget about me," and all that stuff...
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02:49:50,347 --> 02:49:52,248
♪ So push it up
and dish the rock while we hit the boards ♪
1385
02:49:52,349 --> 02:49:54,250
♪ We crash and dish and crash
till our knees are sore ♪
1386
02:49:54,351 --> 02:49:55,585
♪ And that's just
when the getting's good ♪
1387
02:49:55,686 --> 02:49:58,254
♪ We'll show why we're the kings
that reign supreme on the hardwood ♪
1388
02:49:58,355 --> 02:50:00,256
♪ 'Cause on the daily
we live and breathe the rock ♪
1389
02:50:00,357 --> 02:50:02,258
♪ And get it to the man fast
when the trigger's cocked ♪
1390
02:50:02,359 --> 02:50:04,260
♪ Give me the rock, I'm in a zone
Ooh, I got the range ♪
1391
02:50:04,361 --> 02:50:07,330
- ♪ Like the NBA, I love this game ♪
- ♪ Fast break ♪
1392
02:50:09,166 --> 02:50:11,334
♪ I'm, I'm on the fast break ♪
1393
02:50:12,336 --> 02:50:15,605
♪ Yeah, check it out
Kickin' the fast break, huh ♪
1394
02:50:15,706 --> 02:50:19,375
♪ Uhh
Out, out on the fast break ♪
1395
02:50:19,476 --> 02:50:21,410
♪ Check, check, check it out ♪
1396
02:50:21,511 --> 02:50:24,547
♪ So let's run and gun, excuse the pun
No reference to the drive-by ♪
1397
02:50:24,648 --> 02:50:27,516
♪ I elevate, I get sky-high
And, boy, I just can't be stopped ♪
1398
02:50:27,618 --> 02:50:29,986
♪ And to get with this
you got to pump more in those Reeboks ♪
1399
02:50:30,087 --> 02:50:32,021
♪ See, nowadays the game's played
above the rim ♪
1400
02:50:32,122 --> 02:50:34,023
♪ No fouls allowed
Boy, you're playin' with men ♪
1401
02:50:38,195 --> 02:50:40,096
♪ On the break the game's at its pinnacle
with Showtime ♪
1402
02:50:40,197 --> 02:50:42,098
♪ Like Magic run the Lakers
you know I'm gonna gets mine ♪
1403
02:50:42,199 --> 02:50:44,100
♪ And you can bet when I come to the hole
it's hard like steel ♪
1404
02:50:44,201 --> 02:50:46,636
♪ With the rim shaking
like Shaquille O'Neal, huh ♪
1405
02:51:03,687 --> 02:51:05,821
♪ 'Cause like Barkley wreaks havoc on the court
I'm rippin' down rebounds ♪
1406
02:51:05,923 --> 02:51:07,256
♪ See, some things
just can't be coached ♪
1407
02:51:07,357 --> 02:51:09,558
♪ You come with heart on the blacktop
or you get stomped like a roach ♪
1408
02:51:09,660 --> 02:51:11,694
♪ 'Cause on the court it's a test of wills
Come on and "D" up ♪
1409
02:51:11,795 --> 02:51:13,696
♪ You keep the pressure on, boy
I gets keyed up ♪
1410
02:51:13,797 --> 02:51:14,964
♪ That's when I take you
to the other level ♪
1411
02:51:15,065 --> 02:51:17,600
♪ Where only few have gone before
and where others revel ♪
1412
02:51:17,701 --> 02:51:19,602
♪ So here we go, here we go
Once again it's on ♪
1413
02:51:23,707 --> 02:51:26,575
- ♪ So deal with the pace of the fast break ♪
- ♪ The fast break ♪
1414
02:51:26,677 --> 02:51:28,577
♪ Yeah
Here we go, Here we go ♪
1415
02:51:36,186 --> 02:51:38,387
♪ Yeah
I'm out on the fast break, huh ♪
1416
02:51:38,488 --> 02:51:41,857
♪ And here we go, here we go
So, what you wanna do, huh ♪
1417
02:52:20,664 --> 02:52:22,665
♪ The fast break ♪
1418
02:52:24,101 --> 02:52:26,235
♪ Out, out on the fast break ♪♪
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