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And welcome to
the 38th annual NBA All-Star game...

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from Chicago Stadium.

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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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Just needs a little time-out to reorganize.

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And the chances
of a West comeback are slipping away.

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Aguirre for three.

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I have never seen an All-Star game...

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that had such spectacular passing...

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and plays,
and thundering plays like this.

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They're beginning to hang, Billy.

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Ah, what a way to end this ball game.

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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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playing in the NBA.

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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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This Chicagoan
is making his seventh All-Star appearance.

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From the Detroit Pistons, 6'1 "...

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Isiah Thomas!

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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, 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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If we were okay or not.

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Probably get my dad...

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a Cadillac Oldsmobile...

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so he can cruise in the games.

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Something real long.

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Dominique.! Ooh.!

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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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"Joe,Joe, that's me. "

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So the West leads.
Thomas trying to go the distance. Loses it.

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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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I'm so, you know,
focused in on him making it.

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I just know he'll make it.

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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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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 what you call
"beating the bushes. "

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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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who love trying to help young people
on the road to success.

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It's in! It's in!

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Today Earl spots Arthur Agee,
whojust graduated from grammar school.

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he's got the quickest first step
that I've seen in about five years.

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his first step.

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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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Several days later,

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Earl takes Arthur and his family
on a recruiting visit...

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to the high school
where NBA star Isiah Thomas played.

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The visit will give
St. Joseph's coaches...

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a chance to see Arthur perform.

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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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I'm hoping I'm gonna go to St. Joe
and play...

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but first I gotta -
I gotta get my books straight.

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And...

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hopefully come out
and impress the coaches.

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Is it kinda scary?

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Yes, it is.

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I've never been to a school
way out before...

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and I would be going to a school
with different kids, different races.

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You can look at the scenery,
new friends to meet.

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What if Isiah's there today?

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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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then I would be able to help you
as far as going to college.

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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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but I guarantee that I would help you
get into the school...

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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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if you make a commitment
to being part of this kind of a program.

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Out of all of the kids
at the St. Joseph Basketball Camp...

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there are a few like Arthur
that Coach Pingatore is recruiting.

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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 Isiah.

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It gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you a graduate of St. Joe's...

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high school all-American...

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all-American from Indiana University...

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five-time NBAAll-Star...

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Isiah Thomas.

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hello. how are you?

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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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Then he goes to St. Joseph high School...

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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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he told my daddy
that he knew I could play...

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so hejust had to play me hard.

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I can see the playground in him.
I can see talent.

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But I don't see the confidence.

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With Isiah, I just knew
he was gonna be a great one.

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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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You gotta take a shot.
Always work it. You can't block it.

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Ohh.!

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I just bang him and bruise him.

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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 in him now.

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I want him to make it so bad,
I don't know what to do.

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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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A high school diploma
was very important to me.

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My mother,
she was like mother and father to me.

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She don't want me really
hanging around over here that much...

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'cause of the gangs.

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I feel if I go to St. Joseph...

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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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That was my first son.

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I said, "That's Daddy's man, '"
so wejust 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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he said a grown-up has so many problems.
"I got so many things on my mind. "

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I just want Arthur to have more...

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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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Austin Boulevard
will be the next stop. Austin is next.

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Like Isiah Thomas before them...

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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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That was strange for me
going out to a far-out school.

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I saw a rug, flowers, clean hallways...

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things that I didn't see
in an ordinary school.

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Gotta move! Gotta move!

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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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Arthur wins the starting
point-guard position on the freshmen team.

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Agee, I want you to find
in that warm-up number two.

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Brown, number three.

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Ettmeyer, four.

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hey, Arthur, you know
if you miss free throws...

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they count 'em up,
and you have to pay 15 cents.

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Then if you don't pay
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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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When Arthur first started at St. Joseph's...

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he was a good kid,
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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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They talk the way I talk.

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It was a little hard,
but I can adjust to it.

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You can see there was talent there.

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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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And sure enough, they gave him the ball
with seconds on the clock.

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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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William begins
his freshman season on St. Joe's varsity...

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the top-ranked squad in the state.

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he's already received several letters...

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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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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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Right, I know you can do it.
Left, you can't. All right? Go hard.

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Not bad. Do it again.

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If you look at Matthew,
and again he's saying...

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at the time the kingdom ofheaven
will be like this.

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This is how Matthew's gonna useJesus.
This is how he's gonna start it out.

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What this is saying
is you have to take the faith-

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When I first came out here,
it was, like, "I wanna go home.

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Is this really the right school for me?'"

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But every little thing you do
that go against their rule...

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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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are gonna take something away

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that will help them for
the rest of their life.

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The kids that are not willing to do it...

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for whatever reason, uh...

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are not gonna be very successful
as far as here.

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The civil rights movement
started up in the '50s.

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When William first entered St. Joe's...

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tests revealed he was working
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.

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I could see that he had the potential...

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but because he was shy, it seemed as though
no one was trying to reach him.

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Sister Marilyn told me,
"You have to be one good ballplayer...

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to get in this school with these grades. '"

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- What war beginning in the '60s?
- Vietnam.

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At the end of the year,
he had gone four grades above...

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just in the way he listened and learned.

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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.

241
00:19:25,063 --> 00:19:28,055
I was just going to school for the girls.

242
00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:30,135
Trip out with your friends...

243
00:19:30,235 --> 00:19:33,363
get out, go play some more basketball.

244
00:19:33,472 --> 00:19:36,066
That was basically it.

245
00:19:39,711 --> 00:19:44,080
Arthur also entered St. Joe's
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.

246
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:48,017
Nobody in their right mind
is crazy about school.

247
00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,054
If the president brought
up a thing right now

248
00:19:50,055 --> 00:19:51,988
that say, "Close all schools"...

249
00:19:52,090 --> 00:19:55,526
do you think any kids would be trying
to go out there, stand on a picket line...

250
00:19:55,627 --> 00:19:59,586
and wave and get billboards...

251
00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:01,996
saying, "Reopen schools"?

252
00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:04,762
Nice and tall, guys.
Now, don't look at the flash.

253
00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,771
Arthur was in
the lower group of the general program.

254
00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:10,000
Okay, fellas. Good.

255
00:20:10,108 --> 00:20:13,134
At the end of the year,
he was still in the lower group.

256
00:20:13,245 --> 00:20:15,213
One, two, three.!

257
00:20:18,383 --> 00:20:21,250
For Arthur, the season is over.

258
00:20:21,353 --> 00:20:24,516
his freshman team finished second
in the conference.

259
00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:28,150
William's varsity is rolling
through the play-offs.

260
00:20:39,972 --> 00:20:44,204
Against Proviso East,
William plays his best game yet.

261
00:20:46,612 --> 00:20:50,742
And the Chargers move a step closer
to going downstate to compete for the title.

262
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,286
St. Joe's made it downstate
five of the last six years.

263
00:20:59,391 --> 00:21:02,485
The one thing we haven't done
is win a state tournament.

264
00:21:03,895 --> 00:21:08,798
Man, that'd be a big thing
if I could go downstate as a freshman.

265
00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:11,664
Isiah was good enough
to start on the varsity as a freshman.

266
00:21:11,770 --> 00:21:16,070
I didn't do it because I was worried
about bringing him along too rapidly.

267
00:21:16,174 --> 00:21:19,337
I think by not doing it,
it cost us a state championship.

268
00:21:24,216 --> 00:21:28,846
In the sectional finals,
Fenwick challenges St. Joe's title hopes.

269
00:21:28,954 --> 00:21:32,913
But in the second quarter,
William steps up.

270
00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:36,093
With his brother Curtis looking on...

271
00:21:36,194 --> 00:21:40,153
William scores 16 points to lead
the Chargers to the sectional title.

272
00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:47,700
From Chicago, it's The Sports Writers On TV.

273
00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:52,243
I think I may have seen
the next Isiah Thomas.

274
00:21:52,344 --> 00:21:56,906
St. Joe of Westchester
has a kid named William Gates...

275
00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:59,449
who is starting as a freshman.

276
00:21:59,551 --> 00:22:02,019
Remember, you heard it first
from Bill Gleason.

277
00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:05,055
Put it in your memory banks,
ladies and gentlemen.

278
00:22:05,157 --> 00:22:07,751
William Gates.

279
00:22:11,129 --> 00:22:14,792
In the supersectionals,
St. Joe's meets DeSalles...

280
00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:18,131
to decide who will go downstate.

281
00:22:18,236 --> 00:22:20,352
William plays more like
an intimidated freshman

282
00:22:20,353 --> 00:22:22,468
than a freshman sensation.

283
00:22:24,710 --> 00:22:28,908
Six-nine senior all-American
Eric Anderson dominates St. Joe's.

284
00:22:32,718 --> 00:22:36,313
But in the third quarter,
William takes over again.

285
00:22:37,422 --> 00:22:41,153
he fires over Anderson
and is fouled.

286
00:22:43,695 --> 00:22:46,095
William's 13 points
in the second half...

287
00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:48,496
pull the Chargers to within four.

288
00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:55,697
With less than two minutes to play,
it's a must-score.

289
00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:08,949
St. Joe's jump shot falls short.

290
00:23:14,326 --> 00:23:16,760
Eric Anderson.!

291
00:23:32,377 --> 00:23:35,107
Despite the loss,
William's gutty performance...

292
00:23:35,213 --> 00:23:37,113
bodes well for next year.

293
00:23:37,215 --> 00:23:38,478
There will be an announcement

294
00:23:38,479 --> 00:23:40,412
on ticket sales immediately
following the game.

295
00:23:44,289 --> 00:23:47,087
Rewriting 7,300 times 10...

296
00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:50,855
to the negative fifth
in scientific notation.

297
00:23:50,962 --> 00:23:53,021
Who wants that problem?

298
00:23:53,131 --> 00:23:55,031
- I do.
- Go ahead, William.

299
00:23:55,133 --> 00:23:57,067
- 7.3...
- 7.3...

300
00:23:57,169 --> 00:24:00,400
- times 10 to the third.
- times 10 to the third times-

301
00:24:00,505 --> 00:24:02,700
- 10 to the negative second.
- Is that good!

302
00:24:02,808 --> 00:24:04,708
Very good.

303
00:24:04,810 --> 00:24:07,745
When I went out there,
I was very intimidated...

304
00:24:07,846 --> 00:24:10,781
'cause I just knew that everybody out there
was just smarter than me.

305
00:24:11,817 --> 00:24:14,547
As the year went on...

306
00:24:14,653 --> 00:24:16,951
and I was making
an "A'"and "B'"honor roll...

307
00:24:17,055 --> 00:24:20,252
I just felt like,
"hey, I'm just as good as them. '"

308
00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:23,958
Now what you have to identify-

309
00:24:24,062 --> 00:24:27,793
Both William and Arthur
have partial scholarships from St. Joe's.

310
00:24:27,899 --> 00:24:30,390
The rest of William's tuition
is paid for by Cycle...

311
00:24:30,502 --> 00:24:32,402
a Cabrini Green organization.

312
00:24:32,504 --> 00:24:35,530
But Cycle can't cover
this year's tuition increase.

313
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,132
I was called on
by Brother Edwin Duprais.

314
00:24:39,244 --> 00:24:41,371
he was trying to raise money
to help kids...

315
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,176
that couldn't otherwise go
to those kind of schools.

316
00:24:44,282 --> 00:24:46,477
It really touched a soft spot in my heart...

317
00:24:46,585 --> 00:24:50,487
and so I decided that my husband and I
would participate on a personal basis.

318
00:24:50,589 --> 00:24:53,854
William was selected as the kid...

319
00:24:53,959 --> 00:24:56,826
that was able to go to school,
based on our contribution.

320
00:24:56,928 --> 00:24:58,953
- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.

321
00:24:59,064 --> 00:25:03,364
You played a great game. I want you to
meet our friends Liz Duncan, Tom Paris.

322
00:25:03,468 --> 00:25:05,368
- Nice game.
- William Gates.

323
00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:07,700
With continuing support
from Patricia Wier...

324
00:25:07,806 --> 00:25:11,264
William is assured
that his entire education at St. Joe's...

325
00:25:11,376 --> 00:25:13,606
will be free.

326
00:25:17,983 --> 00:25:21,111
Arthur's family is paying
for half ofhis tuition...

327
00:25:21,219 --> 00:25:24,677
and the increase comes
at an especially bad time.

328
00:25:24,789 --> 00:25:27,314
Worked for Sara Lee, got laid off.

329
00:25:27,425 --> 00:25:31,691
Uh, worked for Scala's Meat Packing.
Got laid off there. You know.

330
00:25:31,796 --> 00:25:35,391
You look around your house,
you see your food getting low. Okay?

331
00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:40,460
And you got your bills due here,
your bills due there.

332
00:25:44,342 --> 00:25:46,810
I got called down to the office.

333
00:25:46,912 --> 00:25:49,005
Brother Leo wanted to talk to me.

334
00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:52,777
he was telling me about how much,
certain money my mama had to pay...

335
00:25:52,884 --> 00:25:54,943
for me to stay in school.

336
00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:58,511
They say if she don't have it by this time,
you gotta stay out till she pay it.

337
00:25:58,623 --> 00:26:01,615
I was staying out, like,
two and three weeks and stuff.

338
00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:04,251
By the end of the freshman year...

339
00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:08,662
whatever balance there was for tuition
was never taken care of.

340
00:26:08,767 --> 00:26:11,201
Consequently,
going into the sophomore year...

341
00:26:11,303 --> 00:26:13,567
we had the balance
plus the new tuition...

342
00:26:13,672 --> 00:26:16,402
so that it was going to continue
to become a problem.

343
00:26:16,508 --> 00:26:19,909
Whatever scout that they have come out
to these different neighborhoods...

344
00:26:20,011 --> 00:26:22,479
and scout out
these little basketball players...

345
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:26,017
and get 'em to come to their school
and offer them these scholarships.

346
00:26:26,117 --> 00:26:28,585
Then once they get out there,
the story is totally different.

347
00:26:28,687 --> 00:26:32,123
I was under the impression that Arthur would
have help as far as getting to school...

348
00:26:32,223 --> 00:26:35,158
Arthur would have help
in getting his books.

349
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:37,421
But, see, none of that occur.

350
00:26:37,529 --> 00:26:42,296
Finally, with the Agees
owing $ 1,500 in back payments...

351
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,335
St. Joseph's forced Arthur
to leave the school.

352
00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:50,672
I thought Pingatore and them
would help me out, but -

353
00:26:55,647 --> 00:26:58,377
You have to draw the line
because, as I said...

354
00:26:58,483 --> 00:27:02,442
tuition is something that,
as a school, we depend on...

355
00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:04,784
for 90%% of our revenue.

356
00:27:04,889 --> 00:27:07,915
I guess he thought I wasn't gonna be
that big of a ballplayer.

357
00:27:08,026 --> 00:27:11,462
So why would he just waste some money
on me staying there?

358
00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:13,531
Or, you know, he thought
I wasn't gonna grow.

359
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:17,193
he kept on saying,
"When are you gonna grow?"

360
00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:19,270
Well, I don't know.

361
00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:24,430
If I had known that all of this
was gonna lead to this...

362
00:27:24,542 --> 00:27:27,272
Arthur would have never went
to St. Joseph's.

363
00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:30,348
I mean, if I had known that he was gonna
have to go through this type of pain...

364
00:27:30,448 --> 00:27:32,348
and myself- the anguish of it...

365
00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:36,079
and then to put him out
in the middle of a school year-

366
00:28:05,950 --> 00:28:08,441
I.D. 's, ladies and gentlemen.

367
00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:12,055
All right. Okay, okay. All right.

368
00:28:14,325 --> 00:28:16,418
Can't take no beepers in here.

369
00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:19,053
Give me my beeper, man.

370
00:28:20,432 --> 00:28:22,229
Mr. Wade, I need to see you
at the front door.

371
00:28:22,333 --> 00:28:25,928
Now where you gonna go?
Your friend go to jail. No beepers in here.

372
00:28:26,037 --> 00:28:27,937
Don't make no scene.

373
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:31,167
Arthur is accepted
at the public high school near his home.

374
00:28:31,276 --> 00:28:35,975
he's been out of school for two months
and lost a whole semester's credit.

375
00:28:37,816 --> 00:28:39,710
here you have a youngster caught

376
00:28:39,711 --> 00:28:42,253
in the middle of two
separate school systems.

377
00:28:42,353 --> 00:28:44,651
had he stayed at St. Joseph's...

378
00:28:44,756 --> 00:28:48,021
he would have been able to receive
credit for that first semester.

379
00:28:49,127 --> 00:28:52,028
Doesn't seem fair,
but then that's the system.

380
00:28:53,698 --> 00:28:56,861
If he was going out there and he was playing
like they had predicted him to play...

381
00:28:56,968 --> 00:28:58,868
he wouldn't be at Marshall.

382
00:28:58,970 --> 00:29:01,700
Economics wouldn't have had anything
to do with him not being at St. Joe's.

383
00:29:01,806 --> 00:29:03,176
Somebody would have made some kind of

384
00:29:03,177 --> 00:29:05,139
arrangement, and the kid
would've still been there.

385
00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:08,508
he's not making it like they thought he was
gonna make it on the basketball court...

386
00:29:08,613 --> 00:29:10,547
so he's not there, simple as that.

387
00:29:10,648 --> 00:29:13,412
It doesn't take no brilliant person
to figure that out.

388
00:29:17,789 --> 00:29:21,691
It's mid-season
when Arthurjoins the sophomore team.

389
00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:25,194
he was so depressed and devastated,
hejust closed himself off in the room.

390
00:29:25,296 --> 00:29:30,700
I would go in there and tell him
every day, "hey, things will look up. '"

391
00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:35,498
Coming off the bench,
Arthur wears number 11...

392
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:37,734
Isiah Thomas's number.

393
00:29:49,587 --> 00:29:52,055
What kind of techniques were being used...

394
00:29:52,157 --> 00:29:55,183
to take away the freedoms
that had been earned?

395
00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:57,591
- Jeannetta.
- Poll tax.

396
00:29:57,695 --> 00:30:00,892
Poll tax. Okay, Arthur,
what other techniques were used...

397
00:30:00,999 --> 00:30:03,627
to keep black Americans from voting?

398
00:30:03,735 --> 00:30:05,635
Um-

399
00:30:05,737 --> 00:30:08,035
You could almost forget
about his being there.

400
00:30:08,139 --> 00:30:10,699
That's how quiet he really was.

401
00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:14,267
I think the transition
had something to do with it.

402
00:30:18,116 --> 00:30:20,584
In comparing
Marshall high School to St. Joseph...

403
00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:22,619
I don't think
that there is any comparison.

404
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,188
People can afford
to send their children there.

405
00:30:25,290 --> 00:30:28,589
They can afford to put money
into the school.

406
00:30:28,693 --> 00:30:30,627
Once they walk in those doors...

407
00:30:30,728 --> 00:30:33,925
they walk in there to get that diploma
and to go on to college.

408
00:30:34,032 --> 00:30:38,128
Whereas our students,
if they get out ofhigh school...

409
00:30:38,236 --> 00:30:41,000
a lot of them,
it's an accomplishment.

410
00:30:41,105 --> 00:30:44,700
Trinomial. What's this gonna be?
Both of these are what?

411
00:30:44,809 --> 00:30:47,744
Ifhe wanna go back next year...

412
00:30:47,846 --> 00:30:50,144
he gonna go back, if I have to beg.

413
00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:56,208
Because, uh, I wanna help him
with his little dream.

414
00:31:01,993 --> 00:31:05,429
Arthur's mother, Sheila,
has lost her minimum-wagejob...

415
00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:07,430
as a nurse's assistant...

416
00:31:07,532 --> 00:31:09,796
because of chronic back pain.

417
00:31:13,238 --> 00:31:16,264
It's just a real hard area
to live in, period.

418
00:31:16,374 --> 00:31:18,842
And as far as raising kids -

419
00:31:20,245 --> 00:31:23,009
kids don't even have a playground
or play area...

420
00:31:23,114 --> 00:31:26,015
anything constructive to do
in the neighborhood.

421
00:31:26,117 --> 00:31:29,245
But you see why half of them
become gangbangers, you know.

422
00:31:29,354 --> 00:31:32,414
Because it's nothing constructive
in the neighborhood for 'em.

423
00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:40,554
So now it's, like, you more or less
got to keep your kids close to you...

424
00:31:40,665 --> 00:31:42,826
and watch 'em at all times.

425
00:32:02,887 --> 00:32:06,118
In June, after 20 years of marriage...

426
00:32:06,224 --> 00:32:08,852
Arthur's dad leaves the family.

427
00:32:26,010 --> 00:32:30,310
Big logjam into the lane.
Jordan's 15-footer good from out front.

428
00:32:30,415 --> 00:32:33,578
Make sure you look at
how many shots have been taken.

429
00:32:33,685 --> 00:32:37,644
Jordan might shoot, uh, 15 out of 40.

430
00:32:38,723 --> 00:32:40,623
Fifteen out of 40?

431
00:32:40,725 --> 00:32:42,989
I'm just saying, for instance.
he's done it.

432
00:32:43,094 --> 00:32:46,894
But see, if you do that,
you're gonna know about it.

433
00:32:46,998 --> 00:32:48,898
Ooh.

434
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,434
Curtis tells William,
"The most important thing...

435
00:32:51,536 --> 00:32:53,629
is getting the ball in the basket. '"

436
00:32:53,738 --> 00:32:56,468
Curtis said the boy's good.

437
00:32:56,574 --> 00:32:59,304
he say he's real good, but he don't listen.

438
00:32:59,410 --> 00:33:02,379
he said if he listen to him,
he'd be better.

439
00:33:03,614 --> 00:33:07,550
he's always telling me,
you should do this and you should do that.

440
00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,519
Seems like everybody I know
is my coach.

441
00:33:12,557 --> 00:33:15,549
I know a whole lot about basketball.

442
00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:17,787
Now it's Isiah Thomas.

443
00:33:17,895 --> 00:33:21,854
I guess, in so many words,
I'm a pro at that in my mind.

444
00:33:23,801 --> 00:33:27,396
The Trojans were led on the
court all season by 6'2'"sophomore guard...

445
00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,405
Curtis Gates.

446
00:33:40,151 --> 00:33:44,520
When he went to college,
and Michael Jordan first came to the NBA...

447
00:33:44,622 --> 00:33:49,218
they would,you know, sit around and argue
over him- who could play the best.

448
00:33:51,996 --> 00:33:56,399
Curtis was named Player
of the Decade at ColbyJunior College...

449
00:33:56,501 --> 00:34:00,164
but he also developed a reputation
for being uncoachable.

450
00:34:01,205 --> 00:34:05,869
Curtis's idea of being real good is...

451
00:34:05,977 --> 00:34:10,004
you don't follow the rules,
you do what you wanna do.

452
00:34:10,114 --> 00:34:14,380
Curtis finally signed
at the University of Central Florida...

453
00:34:14,485 --> 00:34:18,114
but he didn't get along with the coach
and rarely played.

454
00:34:18,222 --> 00:34:20,747
Even ifhe didn't play ball...

455
00:34:20,858 --> 00:34:22,758
it was a nice university.

456
00:34:22,860 --> 00:34:24,987
he could have finished school.

457
00:34:25,096 --> 00:34:26,996
But he couldn't handle it.

458
00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:39,502
Security. Can I help you?

459
00:34:39,610 --> 00:34:42,579
I'm used to everybody
in the neighborhood loving me...

460
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,978
and knowing how good I can play.

461
00:34:46,084 --> 00:34:47,500
It just seemed like people looked up

462
00:34:47,501 --> 00:34:49,349
to Curtis Gates when
it came to basketball...

463
00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:51,547
but now...

464
00:34:51,656 --> 00:34:54,181
I'm just a regular old guy
on the street now.

465
00:35:06,370 --> 00:35:08,964
Welcome to the prep game of the week...

466
00:35:09,073 --> 00:35:10,973
in the Class AA Sectional Final.

467
00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:14,408
You got the guru,
the legend, in Gene Pingatore.

468
00:35:14,512 --> 00:35:17,003
Gates.! Good.!

469
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,879
Boy, Gates is on fire.

470
00:35:19,984 --> 00:35:21,952
William Gates is one
of the premier sophomores.

471
00:35:22,053 --> 00:35:24,886
William scores
17 points in the first half...

472
00:35:24,989 --> 00:35:28,720
as the Chargers look to return
to the state finals.

473
00:35:28,826 --> 00:35:31,488
Gates.

474
00:35:31,596 --> 00:35:33,564
Good.!

475
00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:37,363
he is a thoroughbred of a player.

476
00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:43,502
Can they get it done here now?

477
00:35:43,608 --> 00:35:46,975
In the second half, Gordon Tech
turns to their own sophomore star.

478
00:35:47,078 --> 00:35:50,479
Kleinschmidt
drives the middle, puts it up. Good.!

479
00:35:50,581 --> 00:35:54,449
Gordon Tech hangs on to a slender
lead in the waning seconds of the game.

480
00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:56,452
Three-point lead with 12 seconds left.

481
00:35:56,554 --> 00:35:58,454
My guy's William Gates.

482
00:35:58,556 --> 00:36:02,219
I'd like to see him get it,just get to go
one-on-one and pull up and ice it.

483
00:36:06,731 --> 00:36:08,631
Oh, boy. This is it.

484
00:36:09,967 --> 00:36:12,401
- Gates is the man with the ball.
- That's the one I would want.

485
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:15,267
he's gonna pull up from way out.
Off the front of the rim.!

486
00:36:15,373 --> 00:36:18,638
Kleinschmidt hits it around.
Three seconds left.

487
00:36:18,743 --> 00:36:20,677
Cunningham goes out. It's up.!

488
00:36:20,778 --> 00:36:24,407
No good.! Gordon Tech wins.!

489
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:31,417
Congratulations
to the Gordon Tech Rams.

490
00:36:31,522 --> 00:36:34,650
They're on a joyride,
one game now from Champaign.

491
00:36:54,845 --> 00:36:56,904
Come on.

492
00:36:57,014 --> 00:36:59,710
Arthur's season ended well,
and he has high hopes...

493
00:36:59,817 --> 00:37:02,445
to play for the varsity next year.

494
00:37:04,755 --> 00:37:07,883
Whoo! Lots of iron on that shit.

495
00:37:09,460 --> 00:37:11,758
Arthur's dad shows up.

496
00:37:11,862 --> 00:37:13,762
Man got big hands.

497
00:37:13,864 --> 00:37:16,492
These days, Arthur rarely sees him.

498
00:37:16,601 --> 00:37:19,627
- Watch this. Watch this dunk.
- Joe, I'm gonna go after you, okay?

499
00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:21,705
Watch this.

500
00:37:29,714 --> 00:37:32,444
You got old legs, Dad.

501
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:34,450
Old legs.

502
00:37:37,021 --> 00:37:39,251
hey, man.
I'll see you later on, okay?

503
00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:42,324
Bye.

504
00:37:43,661 --> 00:37:45,959
Increasingly, this playground court...

505
00:37:46,063 --> 00:37:49,032
has become a place
to buy and sell drugs.

506
00:38:04,482 --> 00:38:06,382
"Dear Mother...

507
00:38:06,484 --> 00:38:08,611
"I hope when Mother's Day comes...

508
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,381
"you will light up the sky
with a big smile.

509
00:38:11,489 --> 00:38:14,890
"You, Mother,
are the only one in the world...

510
00:38:14,992 --> 00:38:17,290
"who can provide
and take care of me.

511
00:38:17,395 --> 00:38:20,091
"You are the one
that makes our family work.

512
00:38:20,197 --> 00:38:24,600
"You are the one that I will miss so much
when I go away to college.

513
00:38:24,702 --> 00:38:27,262
"No one can replace you ever.

514
00:38:27,371 --> 00:38:29,464
Love always, Man. "

515
00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:32,509
Mother's Day, 1989.

516
00:38:45,189 --> 00:38:47,657
I said to him,
"What are you gonna do this summer?'"

517
00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:50,090
he said, well, he didn't know.

518
00:38:53,564 --> 00:38:55,794
So I said, "Well, if you need a job...

519
00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:57,800
let me know, and I'll see
if I can help you. "

520
00:38:59,370 --> 00:39:02,134
We had a job that didn't require
a lot of previous training...

521
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,139
so we hired him.

522
00:39:04,241 --> 00:39:08,678
I messed up so bad on my first day
'cause I wanted to do everything right.

523
00:39:08,779 --> 00:39:11,543
Just messed up everything.

524
00:39:11,649 --> 00:39:14,447
Puttin' tapes in the wrong numbers...

525
00:39:14,552 --> 00:39:16,520
all sorts of stuff.

526
00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:22,918
But I just pushed myself
to come out here...

527
00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:26,360
because I know, in the long run,
it's gonna be good for myself...

528
00:39:26,464 --> 00:39:29,194
and for my family.

529
00:39:30,401 --> 00:39:33,234
I give my mother $50
out of my checks.

530
00:39:34,271 --> 00:39:36,864
All she done for me, I
don't think there ever

531
00:39:36,865 --> 00:39:39,231
be enough that I can
get to pay her back.

532
00:39:39,343 --> 00:39:42,312
Unless I make pro.
Then I'm pretty sure I can pay her back.

533
00:40:03,501 --> 00:40:06,061
I drew on these.
Look at my name.

534
00:40:07,304 --> 00:40:09,204
Tuss.

535
00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:18,545
I had heard that his nickname used to be
Tuss, so I just started calling myself Tuss.

536
00:40:18,649 --> 00:40:21,174
Say "Tuss. '"

537
00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:31,959
You know, I say,
"Man,you may not make it to the NBA. '"

538
00:40:32,062 --> 00:40:34,360
he said, "Don't keep on
telling me things like that.

539
00:40:34,465 --> 00:40:37,662
That's just like showing me
you don't have any trust in what I do. "

540
00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:42,137
I said, "I do, but don't just keep
putting everything into this. "

541
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,707
he said, "Ain't nobody gonna
take my dream away from me.

542
00:40:44,809 --> 00:40:47,209
That's what I wanna be,
and that's what I'm gonna do. "

543
00:40:50,981 --> 00:40:53,882
Go first.

544
00:40:53,984 --> 00:40:57,886
I say, "hey, it's your dream.
What can we do?'"

545
00:40:57,988 --> 00:40:59,888
Yeah!

546
00:41:19,076 --> 00:41:21,106
"Dear William, Georgetown University

547
00:41:21,107 --> 00:41:23,604
basketball staff is very
interested in you. '"

548
00:41:24,715 --> 00:41:27,946
"We are going to kick off the season
with a midnight madness celebration. "

549
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:30,787
Bobby Knight called.

550
00:41:30,888 --> 00:41:33,186
Michigan State -
boy, do they ever call.

551
00:41:34,024 --> 00:41:37,187
"Will be on national television. "

552
00:41:40,698 --> 00:41:42,689
Any school you name.

553
00:41:47,404 --> 00:41:51,602
"Dear William, there's gold
at the end of the rainbow.

554
00:41:52,977 --> 00:41:55,445
$500 in there for you too. "

555
00:42:09,593 --> 00:42:11,891
Did you see Isiah play the other night?

556
00:42:11,996 --> 00:42:14,055
Yeah, I caught the end of it.

557
00:42:14,164 --> 00:42:16,462
- how'd you like it?
- he played pretty good.

558
00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:21,464
The whole school
see me as being a Isiah Thomas.

559
00:42:21,572 --> 00:42:24,336
I'm trying to build my own identity.

560
00:42:24,441 --> 00:42:28,400
When I leave, they're gonna be, like,
"You're gonna be the next William Gates. '"

561
00:42:30,347 --> 00:42:32,815
The St. Joseph Chargers
are strictly man-to-man.

562
00:42:32,917 --> 00:42:36,478
- Gene Pingatore believes in that system.
- Watch Isiah come.

563
00:42:36,587 --> 00:42:39,351
- Going down the middle, throws it up.
- What did he do?

564
00:42:39,456 --> 00:42:42,425
- he took the charge.
- he took the charge.

565
00:42:42,526 --> 00:42:46,462
- Something we have to get you to do, right?
- Yeah.

566
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:49,397
Everything he does
is what a coach is looking for.

567
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:51,559
You listening?

568
00:42:51,669 --> 00:42:53,864
Out to Clark.
This is Thomas with the ball again.

569
00:42:53,971 --> 00:42:56,838
What an eye.!

570
00:42:56,941 --> 00:43:01,344
You're actually a better shooter
than Isiah from the outside.

571
00:43:01,445 --> 00:43:03,345
True.

572
00:43:03,447 --> 00:43:07,247
That's heads-up ba -
Oh! Thomas! What a move.

573
00:43:07,351 --> 00:43:09,819
That means you have
a lot of responsibility, William.

574
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,979
Can you handle it?

575
00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:14,819
I hope so.
I'm ready to go downstate.

576
00:43:14,925 --> 00:43:16,893
- You wanna go downstate?
- Yeah.

577
00:43:16,994 --> 00:43:21,260
You gotta do something about it.
You have two years to get us down there.

578
00:43:21,365 --> 00:43:23,333
It's going to be all on your head.

579
00:43:23,434 --> 00:43:27,063
Isiah Thomas has just hit his 20th point.

580
00:43:28,105 --> 00:43:30,005
Go.!

581
00:43:31,041 --> 00:43:34,135
hold up.! William.

582
00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:39,775
The man playing defense
dropped way offhere.

583
00:43:39,883 --> 00:43:42,681
Now, who would you rather
have shoot the ball?

584
00:43:42,786 --> 00:43:45,983
Stras shoot the ball there,
or you stop in here and shootin' the ball?

585
00:43:46,090 --> 00:43:48,456
- Me.
- Well, shoot it!

586
00:43:49,593 --> 00:43:50,947
William practices today

587
00:43:50,948 --> 00:43:53,552
having just recovered
from a slight knee injury.

588
00:43:55,065 --> 00:43:57,499
Come on. Let's go.
You're playing soft.

589
00:43:57,601 --> 00:44:00,297
William? Does it bother you?

590
00:44:00,404 --> 00:44:02,736
Don't be afraid though.
Don't favor it.

591
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,207
Tempo.! Tempo.!

592
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:09,302
hold it. That's bullshit!

593
00:44:09,413 --> 00:44:12,348
You didn't jump to the ball
and deny the man!

594
00:44:12,449 --> 00:44:14,349
Go!

595
00:44:19,123 --> 00:44:21,182
That's still one.

596
00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:25,553
Nope. It's still one.

597
00:44:26,630 --> 00:44:30,532
We'll stay here all day
until you get a 10-seconder.

598
00:44:30,634 --> 00:44:32,534
William, you gotta take it easy.

599
00:44:34,571 --> 00:44:37,096
Go!

600
00:44:37,207 --> 00:44:38,799
Go!

601
00:44:38,909 --> 00:44:40,809
Go.

602
00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:48,083
Now we start all over.

603
00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:50,847
You peoplejust refuse to work.

604
00:44:53,724 --> 00:44:56,215
You don't know what it is
to be intense!

605
00:44:56,326 --> 00:45:00,285
And if you don't have it,
you're gonna be crap for this team.!

606
00:45:00,397 --> 00:45:03,264
Give me a good reason why I should
keep you on this team, Corey.

607
00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:06,461
how 'bout you, Reed?
Give me a good reason.

608
00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:09,334
What do you think, William?

609
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,874
I mean, how many of these people
work hard?

610
00:45:11,975 --> 00:45:14,273
- Not too many.
- Not too many.

611
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:17,814
Wanna stay home
when the state tournament comes?

612
00:45:19,683 --> 00:45:21,583
All right. Go on in.

613
00:45:33,063 --> 00:45:36,897
The next day in practice,
William reinjures his knee.

614
00:45:44,842 --> 00:45:48,778
You, most likely,
have at least torn this cartilage...

615
00:45:48,879 --> 00:45:50,744
the inside cartilage of your knee.

616
00:45:52,015 --> 00:45:56,281
And you may have
a ligament tear in your knee, okay?

617
00:45:57,654 --> 00:46:00,953
If the ligament is torn, William,
you would miss this year...

618
00:46:01,058 --> 00:46:03,026
entirely.

619
00:46:03,127 --> 00:46:07,063
This is a lot to happen to you
at an early age. A lot.

620
00:46:07,164 --> 00:46:09,098
I think, if all goes well...

621
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:11,167
you'll be able to come back.

622
00:46:26,216 --> 00:46:28,878
Everything was just going great.

623
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,820
Now this.

624
00:46:37,561 --> 00:46:40,029
All you guys can't get large.

625
00:46:41,365 --> 00:46:43,560
- Somebody accidentally-
- What's up, man?

626
00:46:43,667 --> 00:46:46,932
Somebody gotta wear medium.
You little skinny guys wanna get in a large.

627
00:46:47,037 --> 00:46:48,937
What the other guys gonna put on?

628
00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:51,439
Watch that boy.
he'll steal your drawers.

629
00:46:51,542 --> 00:46:55,672
Junior year, Arthur makes varsity
for the Marshall Commandos.

630
00:47:11,595 --> 00:47:14,063
This is the year, right?

631
00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:16,496
This is it.
All righty.

632
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,795
Not too bad.

633
00:47:18,902 --> 00:47:20,733
Fine.

634
00:47:27,644 --> 00:47:31,273
Back home,
the family's troubles have worsened.

635
00:47:31,381 --> 00:47:34,077
Now I'm on welfare...

636
00:47:34,184 --> 00:47:36,152
that I wasn't on then.

637
00:47:37,187 --> 00:47:41,715
And trying to live month-to-month
on something like that is very hard.

638
00:47:41,825 --> 00:47:44,555
You have three growing kids
that need this...

639
00:47:44,661 --> 00:47:46,891
and you have bills to pay...

640
00:47:46,997 --> 00:47:50,455
and it's just not enough
to make ends meet.

641
00:47:54,004 --> 00:47:58,304
Man.! Sweetie, is Man in there?

642
00:47:58,408 --> 00:48:01,172
I was never raised on welfare.

643
00:48:01,278 --> 00:48:04,577
My mother and father both worked.

644
00:48:08,018 --> 00:48:10,987
We was cut off for three months.

645
00:48:11,088 --> 00:48:13,613
We was cut off aid complete
with no income.

646
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:15,851
So, therefore,
do you know what happened?

647
00:48:15,959 --> 00:48:18,393
Our lights were cut off.
Our gas was cut off.

648
00:48:18,495 --> 00:48:20,690
And we were sittin' in the dark.

649
00:48:30,374 --> 00:48:34,140
They had cut me offbecause
I failed to meet an appointment.

650
00:48:42,452 --> 00:48:45,785
It hurt everybody.
It changed everybody's attitude.

651
00:48:45,889 --> 00:48:49,450
That you can have something today
and it's gone tomorrow.

652
00:48:51,662 --> 00:48:54,756
So you know what the system
is saying to me?

653
00:48:54,865 --> 00:48:58,926
Do you know what it's saying
to a lot of womens in my predicament?

654
00:48:59,036 --> 00:49:01,027
They don't care.

655
00:49:30,734 --> 00:49:34,192
The good news is
that your ligament looks fine.

656
00:49:34,304 --> 00:49:36,864
- Good.
- Okay? Your ligament looks fine.

657
00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:39,602
We can actually
sew the cartilage back.

658
00:49:39,710 --> 00:49:44,443
So you're looking at a minimum
of 12 weeks, maybe 16 weeks...

659
00:49:44,548 --> 00:49:47,278
before I'll let you play ball again.

660
00:49:47,384 --> 00:49:50,512
Possibly being able to play
by tournament time.

661
00:49:50,620 --> 00:49:52,520
Okay?

662
00:49:59,496 --> 00:50:02,488
I'm gonna slip you a little something
into the I.V...

663
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:05,295
to kind of take the edge
off of things, okay?

664
00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:07,336
All right?

665
00:50:07,437 --> 00:50:09,667
- I can tell.
- Yeah.

666
00:50:09,773 --> 00:50:11,673
No doubt.

667
00:50:28,225 --> 00:50:31,160
- Let's turn him.
- Yeah, this way.

668
00:50:32,195 --> 00:50:34,425
If it stays there.

669
00:50:34,531 --> 00:50:38,058
Probably go with the right post here
and little stuff.

670
00:50:42,839 --> 00:50:46,468
The doctor told me he wasn't gonna
even try to get him ready to play this year.

671
00:50:46,576 --> 00:50:50,034
So what do you think
that gon' do to his career?

672
00:50:59,856 --> 00:51:02,324
I really thought Curtis
was gonna make it.

673
00:51:04,361 --> 00:51:07,159
But he didn't make it,
so I just wanted to try-

674
00:51:07,264 --> 00:51:09,732
I just wanted this one to make it.

675
00:51:13,236 --> 00:51:15,864
We were able to repair the cartilage.

676
00:51:15,972 --> 00:51:17,872
Okay?

677
00:51:26,216 --> 00:51:29,845
When basketball is over,
William may not have a friend in the world.

678
00:51:31,288 --> 00:51:34,018
Curtis lost his job as a security guard...

679
00:51:34,124 --> 00:51:37,150
and has been unemployed
for over four months.

680
00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:40,127
Sometimes I sit around
and my eyes just kinda get watery...

681
00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:43,097
'cause I be, like,
I ain't amounted to nothing.

682
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,464
You know, I ain't got nothing.

683
00:51:45,569 --> 00:51:50,905
I can't even go out there and get a job
making seven dollars an hour.

684
00:51:52,075 --> 00:51:55,533
I'll be sitting there telling myself,
"You ain't gonna get no better. '"

685
00:52:02,986 --> 00:52:05,614
What did y'all tell me about
after y'all go to college and everything...

686
00:52:05,722 --> 00:52:07,622
y'all get your own place?

687
00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:10,215
We can all go to Arby's, baby.!

688
00:52:10,327 --> 00:52:13,353
- And get fresh Matt's Cookies.
- And going toJewel's for our meat.

689
00:52:13,463 --> 00:52:17,832
- That's a lot of food stamps.
- We ain't gonna need no food stamps.

690
00:52:19,402 --> 00:52:22,098
Each day is a struggle.

691
00:52:22,205 --> 00:52:24,799
Trying to deal with the kids'attitudes
as well as my own...

692
00:52:24,908 --> 00:52:27,809
and trying to be strong enough
for them and myself.

693
00:52:27,911 --> 00:52:30,175
- That is so neat.
- I forgot to turn in my work.

694
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,840
That is what you call a neat paper.
Yeah, that's neat.

695
00:52:32,949 --> 00:52:35,747
Don't you say that about my son.

696
00:52:35,852 --> 00:52:37,979
My son got a brain.
Now, you cut that out.

697
00:52:38,088 --> 00:52:40,215
- But he don't use it.
- See that brain there?

698
00:52:40,323 --> 00:52:42,985
Now there are two
new members of the Agee household.

699
00:52:43,093 --> 00:52:47,553
Arthur's sister Tomika
has a baby girl named Jazz.

700
00:52:47,664 --> 00:52:51,122
And Arthur's best friend Shannon moved in
to escape his own troubled home.

701
00:52:52,302 --> 00:52:54,361
Shannon is like me.

702
00:52:54,471 --> 00:52:56,939
he understood me,
and I understood him.

703
00:52:58,909 --> 00:53:01,377
he could sit back and talk to me
'cause I was his best friend.

704
00:53:01,478 --> 00:53:03,378
he trusted me, and I trust him.

705
00:53:05,782 --> 00:53:09,741
It's been crazy, as far as his father
and his mother's breakup.

706
00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:14,790
he'll come home,
and Bo stealing and buying drugs...

707
00:53:14,891 --> 00:53:17,325
and beat on his mother and stuff.

708
00:53:19,896 --> 00:53:22,922
You have to call the police
or get an order of protection...

709
00:53:23,033 --> 00:53:25,001
for him to leave me alone.

710
00:53:44,087 --> 00:53:47,250
My father was the same way.

711
00:53:47,357 --> 00:53:50,485
I think about it all the time,
when you come home, and they fightin'.

712
00:53:50,594 --> 00:53:53,620
You know, that gets to a child's head.

713
00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:56,631
They can't - Especially when you're
living with your mother...

714
00:53:56,733 --> 00:54:00,169
and you young,
and that's all you see all the time.

715
00:54:02,172 --> 00:54:04,936
he had to do something
to keep his spirit up.

716
00:54:11,014 --> 00:54:12,982
Ahh!

717
00:54:19,456 --> 00:54:21,356
Why you -

718
00:54:24,761 --> 00:54:29,198
Starting at guard,
number 11, a junior, Arthur Agee.!

719
00:54:29,299 --> 00:54:31,859
When I played basketball,
I knew what I wanted to do.

720
00:54:32,902 --> 00:54:34,870
This is what I want,you know.

721
00:54:34,971 --> 00:54:37,940
This is what I wanna do
for the rest of my life.

722
00:54:42,779 --> 00:54:44,644
Come on, win it, boy!

723
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,019
Get that ball.!

724
00:54:52,989 --> 00:54:55,856
he's way behind
where I think he should be at this point.

725
00:54:55,959 --> 00:54:58,223
I've had a few guys come
to me from college -

726
00:54:58,328 --> 00:55:00,853
"Ooh, I like that kid.
he's quick, he's fast. "

727
00:55:00,964 --> 00:55:03,296
But something's missing with Art.

728
00:55:11,107 --> 00:55:13,075
Shannon was on the basketball team too.

729
00:55:13,176 --> 00:55:16,942
he was a little more raw
than Arthur is.

730
00:55:17,047 --> 00:55:19,015
I couldn't handle two guys like that...

731
00:55:19,115 --> 00:55:22,482
so I tried the lesser of the evils.

732
00:55:22,585 --> 00:55:24,485
That was Arthur.

733
00:55:29,025 --> 00:55:31,550
Marshall's won six and lost 14...

734
00:55:31,661 --> 00:55:34,129
their worst record in 20 years.

735
00:55:34,230 --> 00:55:36,562
You just in a hurry to do nothing...

736
00:55:36,666 --> 00:55:39,601
'cause that's exactly
what you're doing - nothing.

737
00:55:45,575 --> 00:55:48,100
After spending
most of the game on the bench...

738
00:55:48,211 --> 00:55:50,771
Arthur gets another chance.

739
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,077
Get that ball.! Work that ball, boy.!

740
00:55:54,184 --> 00:55:57,585
Yes.! That's the way you do it.!

741
00:55:59,489 --> 00:56:01,684
In the final minutes of a close game...

742
00:56:01,791 --> 00:56:04,692
Arthur takes it strong to the hoop.

743
00:56:06,663 --> 00:56:09,791
he's called for charging
and fouls out of the game.

744
00:56:30,553 --> 00:56:33,989
- There's been some bad calls all day.
- Amen!

745
00:56:34,090 --> 00:56:36,957
I'm telling you. Oh!

746
00:56:55,912 --> 00:56:58,039
The daily regimen of rehabilitation...

747
00:56:58,148 --> 00:57:00,480
is not the only change
in William's life.

748
00:57:03,753 --> 00:57:05,653
Say "hey!"

749
00:57:05,755 --> 00:57:07,689
- hey!
- Say "hey!"

750
00:57:12,762 --> 00:57:17,256
I was just basically scared to tell people.

751
00:57:17,367 --> 00:57:19,426
I was feelin'sick,you know...

752
00:57:19,536 --> 00:57:21,436
holding all this stuff
inside of me.

753
00:57:21,538 --> 00:57:23,438
I couldn't let it out.

754
00:57:24,474 --> 00:57:27,932
When I did finally tell Coach,
he was like, "When did this come about?'"

755
00:57:28,044 --> 00:57:28,976
And I said...

756
00:57:29,078 --> 00:57:32,047
"Oh... three, four months ago. "

757
00:57:34,184 --> 00:57:36,209
he was like,
"Three or four months ago?"

758
00:57:37,654 --> 00:57:39,554
I was in the delivery room.

759
00:57:39,656 --> 00:57:41,556
The nurses gave her to her...

760
00:57:41,658 --> 00:57:44,559
and she handed the baby to me,
you know.

761
00:57:44,661 --> 00:57:47,562
And I'll never forget
how hard she was squeezing my hand.

762
00:57:49,666 --> 00:57:52,658
Once we got her home
William offered his help and stuff...

763
00:57:52,769 --> 00:57:56,227
but it was almost like I didn't want it
'cause she was mine.

764
00:57:56,339 --> 00:57:58,534
You know?
Instead of the two of us.

765
00:57:58,641 --> 00:58:03,408
So then, after a while we -
I finally let him keep her.

766
00:58:03,513 --> 00:58:05,640
And he earned his title.

767
00:58:05,748 --> 00:58:08,512
You smell good.

768
00:58:33,009 --> 00:58:35,739
Your numbers look real good.

769
00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:39,645
I think you're two to three weeks away
from being able to practice full.

770
00:58:39,749 --> 00:58:43,310
- You know what I mean?
- Two or three weeks?

771
00:58:43,419 --> 00:58:45,471
I know you wanted to waltz in here today

772
00:58:45,472 --> 00:58:48,049
and I'd tell you to go back
to practice right now...

773
00:58:48,157 --> 00:58:50,990
but I don't want it
to have to tear again.

774
00:58:52,228 --> 00:58:56,028
I felt that this was the year for me.

775
00:59:08,111 --> 00:59:11,706
I know we can make it downstate.

776
00:59:11,814 --> 00:59:14,146
That's just a big dream I done had.

777
00:59:17,820 --> 00:59:20,448
I look up on the scoreboard-

778
00:59:21,558 --> 00:59:24,425
My name is not even on there anymore.

779
00:59:26,596 --> 00:59:29,565
Where do I fit in with this team?

780
00:59:36,906 --> 00:59:39,306
William takes a makeup exam in math...

781
00:59:39,409 --> 00:59:41,604
because he skipped the final.

782
00:59:47,083 --> 00:59:50,348
here's the cutoff point for passing.

783
00:59:51,788 --> 00:59:54,518
And you ended up right there.

784
00:59:54,624 --> 00:59:57,149
So you passed the final - barely.

785
00:59:57,260 --> 01:00:02,220
When I stopped playing ball,
all my grades just sunk.

786
01:00:03,333 --> 01:00:06,734
I understand we, uh -
we got the A.C.T. results.

787
01:00:06,836 --> 01:00:08,736
Yeah.

788
01:00:08,838 --> 01:00:12,069
Not as good as we, uh -
we wanted, huh?

789
01:00:17,947 --> 01:00:21,405
William scores a 15 on his first A.C. T.

790
01:00:21,517 --> 01:00:25,419
he needs to score an 18 to qualify
for an athletic scholarship...

791
01:00:25,521 --> 01:00:27,421
to any four-year university.

792
01:00:27,523 --> 01:00:31,755
I think what we have to do is get you
set up with the Britannica course.

793
01:00:31,861 --> 01:00:35,627
We'll have to talk to Mrs. Wier.
Okay?

794
01:00:37,133 --> 01:00:40,159
Sometimes you have had the right answer
and you changed it to the wrong answer.

795
01:00:40,269 --> 01:00:43,204
Through Patricia Wier,
William's St. Joe's sponsor...

796
01:00:43,306 --> 01:00:46,605
the cost of the six-week class is waived.

797
01:00:46,709 --> 01:00:48,540
If you're just outright guessing -

798
01:00:48,645 --> 01:00:50,140
If a monkey took this test

799
01:00:50,141 --> 01:00:52,843
and you trained him to
do just B's and C's...

800
01:00:52,949 --> 01:00:57,079
he probably would get more right
than if he picked A's and D's.

801
01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:01,389
You just don't know the feeling...

802
01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:03,391
not knowing
if you gonna be able to play...

803
01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:05,393
just because of a test.

804
01:01:05,495 --> 01:01:08,466
I mean, as soon as you
don't tighten one screw,

805
01:01:08,467 --> 01:01:09,864
everything falls apart.

806
01:01:11,167 --> 01:01:14,068
- El caballo.
- El caballo.

807
01:01:14,170 --> 01:01:16,400
- La vaca.
- La vaca.

808
01:01:16,506 --> 01:01:20,636
Arthur, ¿Tienes tu el libro?
¿Tienes tu el libro?

809
01:01:20,743 --> 01:01:23,234
Mmm.

810
01:01:25,615 --> 01:01:29,312
- What do I say?
- Okay, how do you say "yes"?

811
01:01:29,419 --> 01:01:31,319
"Yoy. '"

812
01:01:31,421 --> 01:01:33,821
- how do you say "yes" in Spanish?
- Sí.

813
01:01:33,923 --> 01:01:37,586
Sí. Look up on the board.

814
01:01:39,729 --> 01:01:43,495
he's a pretty smart kid,
but he does just enough to pass.

815
01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:45,499
hey, Shannon!

816
01:01:45,601 --> 01:01:48,502
Most of them
that have come through here...

817
01:01:48,604 --> 01:01:50,504
and had that type of attitude...

818
01:01:50,606 --> 01:01:51,816
usually end up in the streets

819
01:01:51,817 --> 01:01:53,632
talkin'about they used
to play for Marshall...

820
01:01:53,743 --> 01:01:57,179
and if they'd gone to class they could've
gone to any school they wanted to.

821
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,374
This is just somebody
standing on the street corner talking...

822
01:02:00,483 --> 01:02:03,680
trying to find a job, then can't find a job,
that kind of thing.

823
01:02:03,786 --> 01:02:05,754
This is where he's headed, really.

824
01:02:17,467 --> 01:02:19,935
- how's your knee?
- It's pretty good.

825
01:02:20,036 --> 01:02:24,700
Easiest thing right now would be for you
not to play and wait till next year.

826
01:02:24,807 --> 01:02:26,570
What do you wanna do?

827
01:02:26,676 --> 01:02:28,576
- Wait till next year?
- Right.

828
01:02:28,678 --> 01:02:30,737
- No.
- You think you're ready?

829
01:02:32,415 --> 01:02:34,383
My next year is now.

830
01:02:42,558 --> 01:02:46,460
I've seen athletes
who have come back from surgery...

831
01:02:46,562 --> 01:02:49,463
where they worried about the injury.

832
01:02:49,565 --> 01:02:53,365
When this happens,
they may never be the player they were.

833
01:03:01,511 --> 01:03:02,896
William's first start

834
01:03:02,897 --> 01:03:05,607
is the final home game
of the regular season.

835
01:03:13,489 --> 01:03:15,957
William should have shot it.

836
01:03:21,264 --> 01:03:24,700
he gotta do that the whole game.
he only do it when they leadin'.

837
01:03:30,973 --> 01:03:34,067
It was like my injury
was making him look bad.

838
01:03:34,177 --> 01:03:36,077
Run it out.!

839
01:03:36,179 --> 01:03:38,647
I always felt that Curtis...

840
01:03:38,748 --> 01:03:41,216
should not be living his dream
through me.

841
01:03:50,626 --> 01:03:53,000
If he don't do somethin'
out here on this court -

842
01:03:53,001 --> 01:03:54,756
Man, he ain't showed me nothin' yet.

843
01:03:54,864 --> 01:03:57,765
You gotta come out
and start playing hard all the time.

844
01:03:57,867 --> 01:04:00,097
Otherwise
you're just another player.

845
01:04:00,203 --> 01:04:03,104
You follow me?
Just remember the way we talked.

846
01:04:03,206 --> 01:04:05,001
Okay? As long as you're physically able.

847
01:04:05,002 --> 01:04:07,199
If you're not, you
shouldn't be playing at all.

848
01:04:07,310 --> 01:04:10,404
So nervous about the start tonight.

849
01:04:11,581 --> 01:04:13,481
But I'm glad it's over with.

850
01:04:13,583 --> 01:04:15,483
Now I can just...

851
01:04:15,585 --> 01:04:18,247
get onto the floor more better.

852
01:04:23,459 --> 01:04:25,359
Spread the floor to four corners!

853
01:04:25,461 --> 01:04:28,362
St. Joe's has made it to the sectionals.

854
01:04:29,532 --> 01:04:31,966
And in the final minutes...

855
01:04:32,068 --> 01:04:35,765
William goes to the free throw line
with the Chargers leading by six.

856
01:04:47,516 --> 01:04:49,484
Always a clutch free-throw shooter...

857
01:04:52,088 --> 01:04:54,716
he sinks four straight
to help seal the victory.

858
01:05:03,866 --> 01:05:05,891
In the sectional finals...

859
01:05:06,002 --> 01:05:08,095
St. Joe's looks for revenge
against Gordon Tech...

860
01:05:08,204 --> 01:05:10,832
the team that knocked them out
last year.

861
01:05:14,076 --> 01:05:16,510
With his whole family watching...

862
01:05:16,612 --> 01:05:20,412
William seems out of sync
and bothered by his knee.

863
01:05:23,152 --> 01:05:25,052
You are not working hard enough!

864
01:05:25,154 --> 01:05:27,918
You understand me?
They want it harder than you!

865
01:05:28,024 --> 01:05:30,492
At the beginning of the fourth quarter...

866
01:05:30,593 --> 01:05:32,891
St. Joe's leads by a point.

867
01:05:49,078 --> 01:05:50,978
Got any pain with that?

868
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,139
While the doctor examines William's knee...

869
01:05:53,249 --> 01:05:55,012
Gordon Tech surges ahead.

870
01:06:16,706 --> 01:06:20,107
The Chargers steal the ball,
trailing by one.

871
01:06:20,209 --> 01:06:22,200
William calls time-out.

872
01:06:24,146 --> 01:06:27,582
I want it down floor
so we can get it to one of our good jumpers.

873
01:06:28,684 --> 01:06:30,584
With only seconds on the clock...

874
01:06:30,686 --> 01:06:33,154
the Chargers find William
in the corner.

875
01:06:36,926 --> 01:06:39,895
The shot doesn't fall,
but William is fouled.

876
01:06:43,165 --> 01:06:45,531
With six seconds to go...

877
01:06:45,634 --> 01:06:48,535
William steps to the line
with two free throws...

878
01:06:48,637 --> 01:06:50,537
and a chance to win.

879
01:07:52,134 --> 01:07:55,035
he shouldn't have been out there.
he shouldn't have been playing.

880
01:07:55,137 --> 01:07:57,571
- The knee?
- I'm very disappointed.

881
01:07:57,673 --> 01:08:00,107
Y'all get that on tape 18 times.

882
01:08:00,209 --> 01:08:03,110
Disappointed in the system.
he shouldn't have been out there playing.

883
01:08:03,212 --> 01:08:06,113
his knee came out of place
a couple of times, it looked like.

884
01:08:06,215 --> 01:08:09,013
I mean, if winning's that important,
we need to reevaluate the program.

885
01:08:09,118 --> 01:08:13,748
That ain't no excuse. he got out there,
said there wasn't nothin' wrong with him.

886
01:08:13,856 --> 01:08:15,756
That's an excuse.

887
01:08:15,858 --> 01:08:18,827
If he was hurt,
he shouldn't have got out there.

888
01:08:45,421 --> 01:08:47,616
There's two possible problems
you could have.

889
01:08:47,723 --> 01:08:50,556
You might have healed,
say, 80% of that cartilage...

890
01:08:50,659 --> 01:08:52,456
and still have
a small residual tear.

891
01:08:52,561 --> 01:08:54,461
William's brother-in-law, Alvin...

892
01:08:54,563 --> 01:08:57,760
takes him to see Dr. hefferon,
the Chicago Bulls team doctor.

893
01:08:57,867 --> 01:09:00,836
What you need to do is have
your knee arthroscoped again.

894
01:09:03,172 --> 01:09:05,072
- What side we gonna do?
- Right side.

895
01:09:05,174 --> 01:09:07,074
Right.

896
01:09:07,176 --> 01:09:08,800
A lot of people say I shouldn't

897
01:09:08,801 --> 01:09:11,044
have played, shouldn't
have came back at all.

898
01:09:13,749 --> 01:09:16,217
Coach kept sayin'
it's really up to me...

899
01:09:16,318 --> 01:09:19,810
and if you leave it up to me
I'm goin'back out there on the court.

900
01:09:20,856 --> 01:09:25,259
We're gonna remove
this portion of the cartilage here.

901
01:09:25,361 --> 01:09:28,888
he'll have a higher incidence of arthritis
as he gets older than you or I would.

902
01:09:28,998 --> 01:09:33,992
But in terms ofhis basketball career,
he has a good chance of performing fine.

903
01:09:34,103 --> 01:09:36,037
- There's the medial meniscus.
- Wow.

904
01:09:41,977 --> 01:09:45,378
It's the only thing on my mind,
is gettin' downstate...

905
01:09:45,481 --> 01:09:47,540
is makin' it down there.

906
01:09:47,650 --> 01:09:51,313
I want to be able to go all out
the whole year.

907
01:09:51,420 --> 01:09:53,320
No setbacks, no nothin'.

908
01:09:53,422 --> 01:09:56,323
At least Coach won't have to say,
"William, you didn't play hard this game"...

909
01:09:56,425 --> 01:10:00,259
'cause when I step on that floor
I'm gon' be all business, and that's it.

910
01:10:05,034 --> 01:10:06,934
One year after he left...

911
01:10:07,036 --> 01:10:09,937
Arthur's dad Bo rejoins the family.

912
01:10:10,039 --> 01:10:12,633
he spent seven months in jail
for burglary...

913
01:10:12,741 --> 01:10:15,437
and overcame an addiction
to crack cocaine.

914
01:10:15,544 --> 01:10:19,310
Man might fail ya, butJesus never fails.!

915
01:10:19,415 --> 01:10:23,044
Praise God.! Whoo.!
If you haven't tried him, try him.!

916
01:10:23,152 --> 01:10:26,315
Sometimes you look for friends
and they're not there.

917
01:10:26,422 --> 01:10:28,583
- ButJesus is always there.
- Amen.!

918
01:10:28,691 --> 01:10:31,558
- Even in the midnight hour, he's there.
- Amen.

919
01:10:31,660 --> 01:10:33,753
Glory to God.! Whoo.!

920
01:10:33,862 --> 01:10:36,160
- hallelujah!
- hallelujah!

921
01:10:38,267 --> 01:10:40,167
Glory to God.

922
01:10:40,269 --> 01:10:43,761
Lord, we know
you always bless the family.

923
01:10:43,872 --> 01:10:49,310
Glory to God. Even in the beginning, Lord,
you blessed that first family.

924
01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:53,040
Glory to God. We pray right now,
don't let nothin' come between 'em.

925
01:10:54,149 --> 01:10:58,142
Send strength, Lord, glory to God,
wherever there is weakness.

926
01:10:59,188 --> 01:11:01,088
Please, Lord...

927
01:11:01,190 --> 01:11:03,283
let the love prevail.

928
01:11:14,503 --> 01:11:16,698
- Yeah.!
- Thank you,Jesus.! Thank you, Lord.!

929
01:11:19,241 --> 01:11:21,141
That's right.

930
01:11:29,585 --> 01:11:31,610
While I was incarcerated...

931
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,621
I just asked God,
"Show me a different way.

932
01:11:34,723 --> 01:11:38,523
Give me a new life. Take the taste of drugs
and evil way of thinkin'away from me. '"

933
01:11:38,627 --> 01:11:41,528
I asked the Lord
to forgive me for what I did...

934
01:11:41,630 --> 01:11:46,329
the times that I mistreated my wife,
beat her physically,you know.

935
01:11:53,809 --> 01:11:56,710
I just hope this be
a lesson to my children...

936
01:11:56,812 --> 01:11:59,508
to see me turn my life
over to the Lord.

937
01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:13,393
Oh,yeah.!

938
01:12:18,667 --> 01:12:20,567
When I was little...

939
01:12:20,669 --> 01:12:22,637
he had let me down.

940
01:12:24,606 --> 01:12:29,270
People used to come up to me -
"Your father a drug addict" and stuff.

941
01:12:29,378 --> 01:12:31,642
And I'd just be, like, "Yeah, okay. "

942
01:12:31,747 --> 01:12:33,214
You know?

943
01:12:34,483 --> 01:12:37,384
And I used to take so much,
you know...

944
01:12:37,486 --> 01:12:40,319
that he has to start realizin'
that, you know -

945
01:12:40,422 --> 01:12:42,856
that what is he doing, you know.

946
01:12:44,293 --> 01:12:45,501
'Cause I remember sometimes

947
01:12:45,502 --> 01:12:47,694
he used to try to go to
church while he still -

948
01:12:47,796 --> 01:12:50,822
he was still on drugs
while he was tryin' to go to church.

949
01:12:51,867 --> 01:12:53,767
Give me a hug before you go.

950
01:12:53,869 --> 01:12:55,769
- Give your granddad a hug.
- Thank you!

951
01:12:55,871 --> 01:12:59,807
The closeness was not there at first,
when I come back home.

952
01:12:59,908 --> 01:13:03,537
And then Arthur,
he was watchin'me-

953
01:13:03,645 --> 01:13:05,545
What move would I make now?

954
01:13:05,647 --> 01:13:07,547
Am I just...

955
01:13:07,649 --> 01:13:10,379
bein' like this
since I just come back...

956
01:13:10,486 --> 01:13:13,580
or am I gonna break bad again?

957
01:13:28,570 --> 01:13:32,438
William's dad invites him
down to his auto repair shop.

958
01:13:32,541 --> 01:13:36,773
he hasn't lived with the family
since William was a baby.

959
01:13:36,879 --> 01:13:39,905
The car that I was gonna give you,
uh, I didn't finish it up yet.

960
01:13:40,015 --> 01:13:42,449
I got some more to do to it yet.

961
01:13:42,551 --> 01:13:45,111
I didn't see him for, like, three years.

962
01:13:45,220 --> 01:13:47,620
It never popped in my mind.

963
01:13:47,723 --> 01:13:50,851
- The car back there?
- No, that's the car right over there.

964
01:13:50,959 --> 01:13:52,927
That black Cutlass right there.

965
01:13:54,029 --> 01:13:55,929
I think he's, like...

966
01:13:56,031 --> 01:13:58,829
"Oh, he really must be able
to play some basketball. '"

967
01:13:58,934 --> 01:14:01,835
I think now he sees
somethin'at the end for himself.

968
01:14:06,008 --> 01:14:10,342
I remember one time he tried to whup me,
but I wouldn't let him.

969
01:14:10,446 --> 01:14:15,349
I said, "You may be my dad biologically,
but as far as being there-

970
01:14:15,451 --> 01:14:17,419
Enough. '"

971
01:14:19,288 --> 01:14:22,348
You say you'd like to come
to my next show that I do?

972
01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:24,483
Yeah, come out and...

973
01:14:24,593 --> 01:14:27,084
finally get a chance
to see you sing and -

974
01:14:27,196 --> 01:14:30,427
Okay. What I'll have to do -
I don't have my schedules right this minute.

975
01:14:30,532 --> 01:14:33,660
But I'll have to get that,
and I'll let you know.

976
01:14:43,712 --> 01:14:45,805
Alicia, you're my only friend.

977
01:14:46,849 --> 01:14:48,749
"A'wight? Jimmi-fi. "

978
01:14:48,851 --> 01:14:50,512
Thank you.

979
01:14:51,687 --> 01:14:56,090
I always knew that I was
gonna be a better dad than he was.

980
01:14:56,191 --> 01:14:59,251
I wouldn'tjust leave her like that.

981
01:14:59,361 --> 01:15:01,556
- Alicia?
- hmm? Yes, Mama?

982
01:15:01,663 --> 01:15:04,791
If Alicia has a problem,
then I have a problem.

983
01:15:07,402 --> 01:15:09,597
She's believing whatever she said.

984
01:15:21,884 --> 01:15:23,943
William's second rehabilitation...

985
01:15:24,052 --> 01:15:25,747
is at the Baxter Clinic...

986
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:29,255
used by many
of Chicago's pro athletes.

987
01:15:30,425 --> 01:15:32,610
Both of William's operations and rehabs

988
01:15:32,611 --> 01:15:35,055
have been paid for by
the school's insurance.

989
01:15:40,068 --> 01:15:43,060
Don't expect to be playing in a game
the first day back.

990
01:15:43,171 --> 01:15:46,004
My mother put a big restriction
on those pickups.

991
01:15:48,110 --> 01:15:50,908
She said, "These are her knees now. "

992
01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:54,845
When you're out on a date,
do you have to have sex?

993
01:15:54,950 --> 01:15:57,316
- No! No! No!
- Yes, you do!

994
01:15:57,419 --> 01:16:00,752
No,you don't!

995
01:16:00,856 --> 01:16:04,451
What about the woman's perspective?

996
01:16:05,561 --> 01:16:08,462
All right, quiet down a minute here.!

997
01:16:08,564 --> 01:16:12,261
For the second straight year,
Arthur and Shannon must take summer school.

998
01:16:12,367 --> 01:16:15,268
- Restate your question.
- What'd I say?

999
01:16:15,370 --> 01:16:17,395
Shut up!

1000
01:16:17,506 --> 01:16:20,566
This class
is for freshmen, sophomores andjuniors...

1001
01:16:20,676 --> 01:16:23,645
who have failed English.

1002
01:16:23,745 --> 01:16:25,645
The basic problem here...

1003
01:16:25,747 --> 01:16:27,647
is that we were strapped for money...

1004
01:16:27,749 --> 01:16:32,083
and we only had one English class
available to our students.

1005
01:16:32,187 --> 01:16:35,384
hopefully you could touch a nerve
in some of them...

1006
01:16:35,490 --> 01:16:39,790
like a spirited discussion
on a controversial topic.

1007
01:16:39,895 --> 01:16:42,420
Because exactly what is having sex...

1008
01:16:42,531 --> 01:16:46,865
but engaging in an act
that doesn't fulfill -

1009
01:16:46,969 --> 01:16:49,870
Shannon really didn't care...

1010
01:16:49,972 --> 01:16:51,872
so hejust stopped coming...

1011
01:16:51,974 --> 01:16:54,704
and he was dropped
from the roll.

1012
01:16:54,810 --> 01:16:57,472
Usually in an illicit-

1013
01:16:58,747 --> 01:17:01,147
Even if Arthur passes summer school...

1014
01:17:01,249 --> 01:17:04,150
he may not graduate
with his class next year...

1015
01:17:04,252 --> 01:17:07,779
because St. Joseph's is refusing
to release his transcripts.

1016
01:17:07,889 --> 01:17:09,789
I called up the school.

1017
01:17:09,891 --> 01:17:13,349
The lady explained to me
that he owed $1,800...

1018
01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:17,057
so I felt, well, they have
a school policy there...

1019
01:17:17,165 --> 01:17:20,760
and there's, uh, nothing
I can do about that.

1020
01:17:32,914 --> 01:17:35,348
About how much can you afford?

1021
01:17:35,450 --> 01:17:37,941
Okay, we're looking at 18-

1022
01:17:38,053 --> 01:17:40,954
- 13. 10.
- Oh.

1023
01:17:41,056 --> 01:17:42,956
13.10?

1024
01:17:43,058 --> 01:17:45,083
1,813. 10.

1025
01:17:46,128 --> 01:17:48,722
Well, to total that out...

1026
01:17:48,830 --> 01:17:51,390
and from here to -

1027
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:53,900
June -When is graduation?

1028
01:17:54,002 --> 01:17:56,971
We're looking at somewhere around-

1029
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,970
It's 181.30 per month.

1030
01:18:01,076 --> 01:18:04,978
Is there any way possible that his-
I don't know. I'm just asking.

1031
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:08,572
- Sure.
- Could his credits be released too?

1032
01:18:08,684 --> 01:18:13,178
I will get a promissory agreement
drawn up. Okay?

1033
01:18:13,288 --> 01:18:15,984
As long as you show me good faith
after the first two months...

1034
01:18:16,091 --> 01:18:18,457
I'll release 'em, uh -

1035
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:20,460
That would be end of September.

1036
01:18:20,562 --> 01:18:22,462
- Yes, sir.
- Okay.

1037
01:18:22,564 --> 01:18:25,465
- Then I'll send 'em to Marshall.
- Okay. That would be fine with us.

1038
01:18:25,567 --> 01:18:27,933
- I really appreciate this.
- how's Arthur doing, anyway?

1039
01:18:28,036 --> 01:18:30,903
Pretty good.
I can't really complain about him.

1040
01:18:31,006 --> 01:18:33,736
- Good.
- Wish he could've stayed here, though.

1041
01:18:33,842 --> 01:18:35,742
- Yeah. Me too.
- Well, things-

1042
01:18:35,844 --> 01:18:39,075
- Things happen, you know, and -
- Things happen,you know, and-

1043
01:18:39,181 --> 01:18:41,081
- hey-
- That's part oflife.

1044
01:18:41,183 --> 01:18:44,084
- I can't let him down no more.
- Good.

1045
01:18:44,186 --> 01:18:48,520
Okay, good.
I hope we can work something out then.

1046
01:18:48,623 --> 01:18:50,614
- I'd like to thank you.
- No problem.

1047
01:18:50,726 --> 01:18:52,526
- That's why we're here.
We try to help people.

1048
01:18:52,527 --> 01:18:53,126
- That's right.

1049
01:18:53,228 --> 01:18:55,128
- Okay? Very good.
- All right. Thank you very much.

1050
01:18:55,230 --> 01:18:57,198
- have a nice day.
- Take care now.

1051
01:18:57,299 --> 01:18:59,699
Okay. Very good.

1052
01:18:59,801 --> 01:19:01,666
- Okay.
- Okay.

1053
01:19:01,770 --> 01:19:03,704
- That's what I need.
- Yeah.

1054
01:19:06,775 --> 01:19:11,542
I think about it- had I not been
on drugs when Arthur went to St. Joseph's...

1055
01:19:11,646 --> 01:19:14,547
just how good
it would have been for him.

1056
01:19:14,649 --> 01:19:16,776
he wouldn't have had to leave.

1057
01:19:18,353 --> 01:19:20,637
here's one of the corners right here

1058
01:19:20,638 --> 01:19:23,620
where I used to come
up and cop all the time.

1059
01:19:26,828 --> 01:19:29,797
Threw away a lot of money
on these corners, boy.

1060
01:19:32,634 --> 01:19:35,603
I almost threw my life
right along with it.

1061
01:19:38,573 --> 01:19:40,473
he can just look at my life...

1062
01:19:40,575 --> 01:19:44,033
and say here's a good example
of what not to do.

1063
01:19:45,747 --> 01:19:47,647
If he had my ways...

1064
01:19:47,749 --> 01:19:51,344
I would be shakin' in my shoes
right now.

1065
01:20:01,062 --> 01:20:03,656
hey, look at that Georgetown coat.
Man, I might get that.

1066
01:20:03,765 --> 01:20:06,131
- Dang!
- Pocket on the side.

1067
01:20:06,234 --> 01:20:08,464
That's the one I was tellin' you about.

1068
01:20:10,438 --> 01:20:12,133
how much?

1069
01:20:13,175 --> 01:20:15,837
Seventy bucks even, no tax.

1070
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:21,080
Some of the drug pushers
in the neighborhood...

1071
01:20:21,183 --> 01:20:25,142
they'll give us money, tell us,
"Go shoppin; Go get you somethin; '"

1072
01:20:25,253 --> 01:20:29,155
They're thinkin; we playin'basketball
and they can give us stuff...

1073
01:20:29,257 --> 01:20:31,589
and keep our career goin;

1074
01:20:31,693 --> 01:20:34,821
So that's how we were to
keep up with the styles.

1075
01:20:36,364 --> 01:20:39,026
A'ight.

1076
01:20:55,617 --> 01:20:58,017
While you're sitting here today...

1077
01:20:58,119 --> 01:21:00,417
you should feel like a million dollars.

1078
01:21:00,522 --> 01:21:02,820
You should feel so special.

1079
01:21:02,924 --> 01:21:06,382
You are one of a hundred
of the best high school players...

1080
01:21:06,494 --> 01:21:09,224
in this country,
the United States.

1081
01:21:09,331 --> 01:21:12,232
My mother, God bless her,
she's in heaven today.

1082
01:21:12,334 --> 01:21:14,594
She used to always say
to me, "This is America.

1083
01:21:14,595 --> 01:21:16,430
You can make something of your life. "

1084
01:21:19,541 --> 01:21:21,168
Come on! Come on!

1085
01:21:21,276 --> 01:21:24,575
Okay.

1086
01:21:24,679 --> 01:21:28,911
All the coaches from over here.
To the stands, please, coaches!

1087
01:21:29,017 --> 01:21:30,917
Coaches, we gotta clear!

1088
01:21:31,019 --> 01:21:34,147
If you a player, somebody up there
gonna recognize that you a player.

1089
01:21:34,256 --> 01:21:37,191
So there's 250 of us here.

1090
01:21:37,292 --> 01:21:38,990
We're doing it to try to find out who

1091
01:21:38,991 --> 01:21:41,285
the best players are and
get 'em in our program.

1092
01:21:41,396 --> 01:21:44,297
There aren't very many kids at any level,
including the NBA...

1093
01:21:44,399 --> 01:21:47,163
that really understand
what basketball is all about.

1094
01:21:47,269 --> 01:21:48,941
We always say, you're
going to war, would you

1095
01:21:48,942 --> 01:21:50,432
want him behind you covering your flank?

1096
01:21:50,538 --> 01:21:53,439
If you're pouting,
they're gonna also recognize that.

1097
01:21:53,541 --> 01:21:54,284
And don't tell me

1098
01:21:54,285 --> 01:21:56,339
they're not gonna write
it down in that book.

1099
01:21:56,444 --> 01:21:58,344
At the prestigious Nike camp...

1100
01:21:58,446 --> 01:22:01,006
William hopes to prove
the injuries are behind him...

1101
01:22:01,116 --> 01:22:03,778
and he belongs
among the nation's best.

1102
01:22:13,995 --> 01:22:16,020
One, two, three.

1103
01:22:16,131 --> 01:22:17,689
Next.!

1104
01:22:17,799 --> 01:22:22,259
One, two, three, four.!

1105
01:22:28,410 --> 01:22:32,210
Arthur and Shannon spend their summer
at Pizza hut earning 3.35 an hour.

1106
01:22:40,822 --> 01:22:42,722
Yeah.

1107
01:22:42,824 --> 01:22:45,884
- hello. how are you all doing today?
- Fine.

1108
01:23:01,843 --> 01:23:04,937
It's a waste of my time down here.
I'm ready to go home.

1109
01:23:06,381 --> 01:23:09,646
here I am, always tryin'
to play this team ball.

1110
01:23:11,252 --> 01:23:13,652
A few coaches - more coaches
comin' around to look...

1111
01:23:13,755 --> 01:23:18,055
everybody feel they gotta do
they own little thing here.

1112
01:23:18,159 --> 01:23:20,627
Move it.! Move it.!

1113
01:23:20,729 --> 01:23:22,629
Stick in the post.!

1114
01:23:22,731 --> 01:23:25,700
Some of you are gonna make it
where you want to be...

1115
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:27,927
and others of you will not make it.

1116
01:23:28,036 --> 01:23:32,063
This is summer for them.
They don't wanna be sitting in a classroom.

1117
01:23:32,173 --> 01:23:34,073
But we provide them with an experience...

1118
01:23:34,175 --> 01:23:36,268
you can't get anywhere else...

1119
01:23:36,378 --> 01:23:38,744
in that we simulate what it's going
to be like to be a student athlete.

1120
01:23:38,847 --> 01:23:41,748
Fifteen hours a week for basketball.
how many hours do we have up here?

1121
01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:44,184
The statistics on Division I players

1122
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:47,117
graduating from college
are really frightening.

1123
01:23:47,222 --> 01:23:50,419
Let's assume you're playing
big-time college basketball...

1124
01:23:50,525 --> 01:23:53,255
and your team travels-

1125
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:55,761
You have to realize...

1126
01:23:55,864 --> 01:23:58,196
that nobody cares about you.

1127
01:23:58,299 --> 01:24:01,393
You're black,
you're a young male.

1128
01:24:01,503 --> 01:24:04,939
All you're supposed to do
is deal drugs and mug women.

1129
01:24:05,974 --> 01:24:09,102
The only reason why you're here-

1130
01:24:10,211 --> 01:24:12,111
you can make their team win.

1131
01:24:12,213 --> 01:24:14,272
If their team wins...

1132
01:24:14,382 --> 01:24:16,475
these schools get a lot of money.

1133
01:24:16,584 --> 01:24:19,553
This whole thing
is revolving around money.

1134
01:24:25,493 --> 01:24:29,327
Recruiting is like
any other sales business.

1135
01:24:29,431 --> 01:24:31,331
We've gotta win to keep our jobs.

1136
01:24:31,433 --> 01:24:33,333
We've gotta fill the arena
to keep our jobs.

1137
01:24:33,435 --> 01:24:35,335
And if we don't, they fire us.

1138
01:24:35,437 --> 01:24:38,463
I mean, that's - hey, if bankers
don't make money, they fire them.

1139
01:24:38,573 --> 01:24:43,101
When you look at some of these young boys'
bodies, they got NBA bodies already.

1140
01:24:45,713 --> 01:24:48,614
There's one particular kid
who's here now...

1141
01:24:48,716 --> 01:24:51,549
I've watched him since sixth grade;
I've watched him blossom.

1142
01:24:51,653 --> 01:24:54,554
That's when you wanna get on 'em -
when they're young -

1143
01:24:54,656 --> 01:24:56,886
and start writin' 'em
before everybody else writes 'em.

1144
01:24:56,991 --> 01:25:00,392
Try to get any edge you can
in this business.

1145
01:25:02,230 --> 01:25:04,130
It's already become a meat market.

1146
01:25:04,232 --> 01:25:07,292
But I try to - to, uh, do my job...

1147
01:25:07,402 --> 01:25:10,860
you know, and serve professional me.

1148
01:25:16,778 --> 01:25:20,270
What schools do you think
are most involved with William right now?

1149
01:25:20,381 --> 01:25:22,372
I would say DePaul...

1150
01:25:22,484 --> 01:25:25,817
Marquette, Indiana, Michigan.

1151
01:25:26,921 --> 01:25:29,981
Excellent.

1152
01:25:30,091 --> 01:25:32,252
Great job! Way to go!

1153
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:35,625
Bob Gibbons done seen me
play my best game out here.

1154
01:25:35,730 --> 01:25:39,097
Turned in 16 points, 12 assists.

1155
01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:41,498
Bob Gibbons over there like this -
"hmm. "

1156
01:25:43,605 --> 01:25:46,096
Yeah, I was smilin' too, Bob.

1157
01:25:48,543 --> 01:25:50,636
Give me a slice of the crust.

1158
01:25:52,580 --> 01:25:54,480
Probably will.

1159
01:25:54,582 --> 01:25:56,812
Thanks a lot.

1160
01:25:59,187 --> 01:26:00,848
Look.

1161
01:26:00,955 --> 01:26:02,582
hey, Mom.

1162
01:26:05,827 --> 01:26:08,387
Right now I'm feelin'good about myself.

1163
01:26:12,834 --> 01:26:17,203
I really feel like, since I been down here,
that I was all-American.

1164
01:26:19,340 --> 01:26:22,503
When I go back home
I'm gonna feel unstoppable.

1165
01:26:24,179 --> 01:26:28,138
This one eyebrows up.
This one eyebrows up.

1166
01:26:29,417 --> 01:26:31,317
Swing it!

1167
01:26:31,419 --> 01:26:33,387
Whoo-hoo!

1168
01:26:47,101 --> 01:26:50,502
I'm gonna pull up on it, okay?
Tell me if it hurts more.

1169
01:26:50,605 --> 01:26:53,574
- Yeah.
- It hurts more when I do that?

1170
01:27:01,649 --> 01:27:03,617
Easy does it, now.

1171
01:27:08,056 --> 01:27:11,492
It's on the muscle.
It's not on the joint. It's above the joint.

1172
01:27:11,593 --> 01:27:13,322
Okay?

1173
01:27:17,899 --> 01:27:19,992
What's your name?

1174
01:27:20,101 --> 01:27:22,001
Though it's only a muscle injury...

1175
01:27:22,103 --> 01:27:25,034
it's severe enough that
William will not compete

1176
01:27:25,035 --> 01:27:27,063
for the final two days of the camp.

1177
01:27:49,864 --> 01:27:52,094
how many electives
you need to graduate?

1178
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,100
- Six.
- Six?

1179
01:27:54,202 --> 01:27:56,534
Arthur's transcript
from St. Joseph's has arrived.

1180
01:27:56,638 --> 01:27:59,937
If you pass all of the classes
that you're presently taking...

1181
01:28:00,041 --> 01:28:02,373
you can graduate
from summer school.

1182
01:28:02,477 --> 01:28:04,707
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.

1183
01:28:04,812 --> 01:28:07,110
- have you taken the A.C.T.?
- Mm-mmm.

1184
01:28:07,215 --> 01:28:09,115
When do you plan to take it?

1185
01:28:09,217 --> 01:28:11,117
Sometime soon.

1186
01:28:11,219 --> 01:28:13,633
What institution are
you planning on going to?

1187
01:28:13,634 --> 01:28:14,814
have you decided that?

1188
01:28:14,922 --> 01:28:19,325
I was, um, thinking about,
going to, um... Alabama.

1189
01:28:19,427 --> 01:28:22,487
But you need to take
Algebra-Trig. Okay?

1190
01:28:23,564 --> 01:28:25,464
Do you plan to take that?

1191
01:28:25,566 --> 01:28:27,864
I don't know.

1192
01:28:27,969 --> 01:28:29,937
You don't know?

1193
01:28:31,639 --> 01:28:34,540
So you just barely gettin'by again.

1194
01:28:36,644 --> 01:28:38,737
No. You ain't gotta say that.

1195
01:28:38,846 --> 01:28:41,371
But you are.
You've been barely gettin'by all along.

1196
01:28:41,482 --> 01:28:44,383
Now, you gonna have to do better than that
if you wanna go to Alabama...

1197
01:28:44,485 --> 01:28:46,885
or any other school.

1198
01:28:46,988 --> 01:28:50,116
You gonna have to do more
than just get by.

1199
01:28:51,359 --> 01:28:53,827
Don't forget to bring
those papers back to me.

1200
01:28:53,928 --> 01:28:55,828
- Okay.
- All right.

1201
01:28:57,899 --> 01:29:01,232
St. Joe's just messed everything up.
Shouldn't have even went there.

1202
01:29:02,804 --> 01:29:04,704
Thought I had more credits than this.

1203
01:29:04,806 --> 01:29:08,139
They gon' kick me out
'cause I ain't payin' 'em money. Man!

1204
01:29:10,845 --> 01:29:13,814
That's all right, though.
I'm gonna still make it.

1205
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:21,951
"Don't let your best
opportunity get away from you.

1206
01:29:22,056 --> 01:29:26,220
"You can have a great experience
at Marquette University.

1207
01:29:26,327 --> 01:29:28,227
"Once you visit our campus...

1208
01:29:28,329 --> 01:29:32,993
"I feel confident that you will know
that Marquette is the right place for you.

1209
01:29:33,101 --> 01:29:35,592
Sincerely, Kevin O'Neill. "

1210
01:29:39,273 --> 01:29:41,332
I like these.

1211
01:29:41,442 --> 01:29:45,378
I been gettin; like, two a week
from the school for...

1212
01:29:46,581 --> 01:29:48,481
a couple of months.

1213
01:29:48,583 --> 01:29:50,744
So that's quite a few.

1214
01:29:50,852 --> 01:29:55,084
I know you're game,
but, Monica,you seem very overwrought.

1215
01:29:57,258 --> 01:29:59,783
I had Division I offers.

1216
01:29:59,894 --> 01:30:01,523
I had even signed at Marquette

1217
01:30:01,524 --> 01:30:03,990
'cause they thought I
was gonna make the grades.

1218
01:30:06,734 --> 01:30:08,895
The great ballplayers...

1219
01:30:09,003 --> 01:30:11,904
they care about basketball
more than they care about school...

1220
01:30:12,006 --> 01:30:14,338
and I know they do.

1221
01:30:24,519 --> 01:30:26,487
Shaky. Shaky.

1222
01:30:30,358 --> 01:30:33,350
Ohh.!

1223
01:30:33,461 --> 01:30:35,361
Let me try somethin;!

1224
01:30:35,563 --> 01:30:39,294
If you're looking for
a progressive college basketball program...

1225
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,460
with experienced leadership
and a winning tradition...

1226
01:30:42,570 --> 01:30:45,937
then the Marquette Warriors
are for you.

1227
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:48,941
William's first home recruiting visit.

1228
01:30:49,043 --> 01:30:50,977
Three top schools postpone visits...

1229
01:30:51,078 --> 01:30:53,993
preferring to wait and
see how William will do

1230
01:30:53,994 --> 01:30:55,742
his senior year at St. Joe's.

1231
01:30:57,018 --> 01:30:59,578
If you don't make the test score,
it doesn't mean we don't want you...

1232
01:30:59,687 --> 01:31:01,587
because we still do-
that's what I'm telling you.

1233
01:31:01,689 --> 01:31:03,589
If you tear your knee out
again this year...

1234
01:31:03,691 --> 01:31:05,591
and you can't
play ever again...

1235
01:31:05,693 --> 01:31:08,059
you're gonna have your education
paid for at Marquette University.

1236
01:31:08,162 --> 01:31:10,995
I know that the scholarship
is one-year renewable.

1237
01:31:11,098 --> 01:31:15,125
Gene's right about this, but any school
worth its salt is gonna give you four years.

1238
01:31:15,236 --> 01:31:18,262
The bottom line is this-
we want to win the national title.

1239
01:31:18,372 --> 01:31:21,068
Number two- I wanna make you
the best player I can.

1240
01:31:21,175 --> 01:31:24,076
I wanna give you an opportunity
to, maybe someday...

1241
01:31:24,178 --> 01:31:27,306
be one of those guys that makes
some money in Europe or in the NBA.

1242
01:31:27,415 --> 01:31:30,907
You're one of seven guys
that we're recruiting right now.

1243
01:31:31,018 --> 01:31:33,987
- You're recruiting seven guys?
- Seven guys for three spots.

1244
01:31:35,656 --> 01:31:37,556
Where he fit in?

1245
01:31:37,658 --> 01:31:39,558
- Where does he fit in?
- Yeah.

1246
01:31:39,660 --> 01:31:42,220
As soon as William tells me
he's not looking at any other schools...

1247
01:31:42,330 --> 01:31:44,195
then I'm not looking at
any other players.

1248
01:31:44,298 --> 01:31:46,698
So, what?
The first one sign, that's -

1249
01:31:46,801 --> 01:31:49,998
Well- Well, that's what
it's gonna come down to.

1250
01:31:50,104 --> 01:31:53,005
If I tell you that, hey,
you're our guy and this and that...

1251
01:31:53,107 --> 01:31:56,008
and I lose you to Kansas, Indiana,
North Carolina State or something...

1252
01:31:56,110 --> 01:31:58,010
I'm out ofluck.

1253
01:31:58,112 --> 01:32:00,842
The president's saying to me,
"I thought you were recruiting a guard. '"

1254
01:32:00,948 --> 01:32:03,883
It's a tough situation,
but it's something that has to be done.

1255
01:32:24,205 --> 01:32:26,105
It's a great place.

1256
01:32:26,207 --> 01:32:28,198
We're gettin'ready
to have it rockin;

1257
01:32:29,310 --> 01:32:32,177
The best is yet to come.

1258
01:32:34,549 --> 01:32:37,541
Lot of serious ballplayers
been through this building-

1259
01:32:37,652 --> 01:32:42,316
Junior Bridgeman, Sidney Moncrief,
Bob Lanier, Oscar Robertson.

1260
01:32:44,258 --> 01:32:48,251
Can you see yourself playing
in this place here, 18,000 in it?

1261
01:32:48,362 --> 01:32:51,559
Big difference from St. Joe's, now.

1262
01:32:55,703 --> 01:32:57,603
We stayed at the hyatt.

1263
01:32:57,705 --> 01:33:01,004
Man, it was nice. Real nice.

1264
01:33:01,108 --> 01:33:04,635
They had these balloons
all hangin' up on the ceiling, everything.

1265
01:33:04,745 --> 01:33:07,373
They-They really did it up.

1266
01:33:07,481 --> 01:33:10,075
And I must say, we did it up too.

1267
01:33:10,184 --> 01:33:15,383
We - Room service.
Man!

1268
01:33:15,489 --> 01:33:18,515
had these phony newspapers written up.

1269
01:33:18,626 --> 01:33:21,754
Notre Dame 77, Marquette 76.

1270
01:33:21,862 --> 01:33:25,958
Gates is out high, calling for the ball.!
There are six seconds left.

1271
01:33:26,067 --> 01:33:29,559
The freshman spins past the defender,
slicing to his left to the foul line.

1272
01:33:29,670 --> 01:33:32,400
Three seconds left.
Marquette down by one.

1273
01:33:32,506 --> 01:33:35,304
Gates launches a running one-hander.!
It's on the way.!

1274
01:33:35,409 --> 01:33:38,401
It is good.!

1275
01:33:38,512 --> 01:33:43,506
Gates buries a 13-footer
just ahead of the horn...

1276
01:33:43,618 --> 01:33:47,213
and Marquette
has defeated Notre Dame.!

1277
01:33:47,321 --> 01:33:50,051
If you think we care about you
a lot in recruiting...

1278
01:33:50,157 --> 01:33:52,318
we're gonna do more
when you're here.

1279
01:33:52,426 --> 01:33:54,190
Don't let it get to a
point where somebody else

1280
01:33:54,191 --> 01:33:55,623
comes in and takes a scholarship away.

1281
01:33:57,031 --> 01:34:00,933
Let us know what you wanna do-
unless you know what you wanna do right now.

1282
01:34:01,035 --> 01:34:04,004
he knows, but he won't say.

1283
01:34:10,311 --> 01:34:13,144
You talked to any, uh...

1284
01:34:13,247 --> 01:34:16,148
leading black people on the campus?

1285
01:34:16,250 --> 01:34:18,150
- The leading black people?
- Yeah.

1286
01:34:18,252 --> 01:34:20,152
- Such as?
- Whoever might be in charge...

1287
01:34:20,254 --> 01:34:22,154
of all the black students on campus -

1288
01:34:22,256 --> 01:34:25,157
what kind of community life
they have for the blacks there.

1289
01:34:25,259 --> 01:34:27,159
- Uh -
- Did you talk to anyone about it?

1290
01:34:27,261 --> 01:34:28,885
- Did you ask the players
how they're treated?

1291
01:34:28,886 --> 01:34:29,161
- Yeah.

1292
01:34:29,263 --> 01:34:31,163
- What'd they say?
- Players say they treated fine.

1293
01:34:31,265 --> 01:34:33,495
I mean, they get
the best of everything.

1294
01:34:33,601 --> 01:34:35,501
- You think that's where you wanna go?
- Yeah.

1295
01:34:35,603 --> 01:34:37,366
That's fine.

1296
01:34:37,471 --> 01:34:39,073
Obviously, if you wait you'll have

1297
01:34:39,074 --> 01:34:41,430
all the other schools
that were on you before...

1298
01:34:41,542 --> 01:34:45,535
like Kansas and Indiana
and North Carolina State.

1299
01:34:45,646 --> 01:34:47,876
That's all right, uh, but...

1300
01:34:47,982 --> 01:34:49,882
I discussed it with -

1301
01:34:49,984 --> 01:34:51,952
I think you should take a few days.

1302
01:34:53,220 --> 01:34:55,882
Because you just came back.
You understand?

1303
01:34:57,658 --> 01:34:59,558
- Poop!
- Yeah!

1304
01:34:59,660 --> 01:35:01,855
Yea!

1305
01:35:01,962 --> 01:35:03,862
Boo!

1306
01:35:06,500 --> 01:35:08,559
Is there any cash with this?

1307
01:35:08,669 --> 01:35:10,569
Uh, it's in the mail.

1308
01:35:10,671 --> 01:35:13,469
To four years of excellence.

1309
01:35:13,574 --> 01:35:16,202
- hear! hear!
- hear! hear!

1310
01:35:20,548 --> 01:35:22,914
- It's alcohol-free.
- It's not that bad.

1311
01:35:31,392 --> 01:35:35,055
I am fixing him
a birthday dinner today.

1312
01:35:35,162 --> 01:35:37,062
It's his 18th birthday...

1313
01:35:37,164 --> 01:35:40,895
and I want to show him
how much we appreciate him and love him...

1314
01:35:41,001 --> 01:35:42,969
and care for him.

1315
01:35:44,538 --> 01:35:47,666
Everything that you can imagine
was going wrong with this family...

1316
01:35:47,775 --> 01:35:50,505
but now everybody's together.

1317
01:35:50,611 --> 01:35:52,909
It's his favorite cake.

1318
01:35:53,013 --> 01:35:55,208
he's a great kid.

1319
01:35:55,316 --> 01:35:58,774
And some kids don't live
to get this age, you know.

1320
01:35:58,886 --> 01:36:02,117
That's another thing
to be proud about -

1321
01:36:02,223 --> 01:36:05,351
that, you know,
it's his 18th birthday, he lived...

1322
01:36:05,459 --> 01:36:09,225
and to get to see 18, that's good.

1323
01:36:12,967 --> 01:36:16,528
I wanna tell you that I love you very much.
I'm very proud of you.

1324
01:36:16,637 --> 01:36:21,006
It seems like I was 18 just yesterday.
here. happy birthday. I love you.

1325
01:36:21,108 --> 01:36:23,008
- Ohh.!
- hey-hey.!

1326
01:36:23,110 --> 01:36:25,010
- happy birthday!
- I love you too.!

1327
01:36:25,112 --> 01:36:28,377
- Come over here.
- Where you goin', homes?

1328
01:36:28,482 --> 01:36:30,677
Where you goin', homes?

1329
01:36:39,293 --> 01:36:41,193
Blow out the candles.!

1330
01:36:43,297 --> 01:36:45,697
Two months after his 18th birthday...

1331
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:48,166
Arthur is cut off public aid.

1332
01:36:49,203 --> 01:36:51,103
This is what I brought to their attention.

1333
01:36:51,205 --> 01:36:53,503
he's still a full-time student.
he hasn't graduated yet.

1334
01:36:53,607 --> 01:36:56,007
So why would you-all cut him off?

1335
01:36:56,110 --> 01:36:58,010
- I'll bite you!
- I'll bite you back.

1336
01:36:58,112 --> 01:37:00,012
They feel like when they get 18...

1337
01:37:00,114 --> 01:37:02,514
most the black kids
they drop out.

1338
01:37:02,616 --> 01:37:06,074
So that means that the child
is just thrown out there.

1339
01:37:08,255 --> 01:37:12,214
I was gettin' 368.
Now I get 268.

1340
01:37:14,461 --> 01:37:16,554
And that's it.

1341
01:37:16,664 --> 01:37:20,122
And that's to take care of me
from one month to the next.

1342
01:37:22,503 --> 01:37:24,903
Now, can you imagine
a person living on that?

1343
01:37:25,005 --> 01:37:27,974
Do you-all wonder sometime,
how am I livin'?

1344
01:37:29,243 --> 01:37:33,179
Or how do my children survive,
or how they livin'?

1345
01:37:34,448 --> 01:37:39,408
It's enough to make people really wanna go
out there and lash out and hurt somebody.

1346
01:37:41,288 --> 01:37:43,882
A message to the Oreo cookie.

1347
01:37:43,991 --> 01:37:47,688
No matter how much you wanna switch,
here's what they think about you:

1348
01:37:47,795 --> 01:37:52,391
Fried chicken
and biscuit-eatin'monkey, ape, baboon...

1349
01:37:52,499 --> 01:37:55,662
big-thighed, fast-runnin;
high-jumpin; spear-chuckin;..

1350
01:37:55,769 --> 01:37:59,227
360-degree basketball-dunkin;..

1351
01:37:59,340 --> 01:38:01,570
pit-swingin'spade moulanyan.

1352
01:38:01,675 --> 01:38:05,111
Go the fuck back to Africa.
Go the fuck back to Africa.

1353
01:38:05,212 --> 01:38:07,112
Go the fuck back to Africa.

1354
01:38:07,214 --> 01:38:09,114
Think about it. Fuckin'sellout.

1355
01:38:11,151 --> 01:38:13,278
Play the music, motherfucker!
Put the music on!

1356
01:38:23,530 --> 01:38:25,088
Shoot it.

1357
01:38:25,199 --> 01:38:29,295
Rebound.! Go, go, go.!

1358
01:38:34,108 --> 01:38:36,076
Gates stinks.

1359
01:38:36,176 --> 01:38:38,838
You got that? he stinks.

1360
01:38:41,849 --> 01:38:45,080
he doesn't play with confidence,
like he did before he was injured.

1361
01:38:50,557 --> 01:38:53,253
I don't believe the other players
have complete confidence in William.

1362
01:38:54,995 --> 01:38:57,793
They were in awe of William
when he was a sophomore.

1363
01:38:57,898 --> 01:39:00,196
They're not in awe ofhim anymore.

1364
01:39:22,656 --> 01:39:24,556
Sophomore year...

1365
01:39:24,658 --> 01:39:26,853
I was just carefree.

1366
01:39:29,697 --> 01:39:32,530
If it could be done,
I was gonna do it.

1367
01:39:33,567 --> 01:39:36,627
I wish I could
get that attitude back.

1368
01:39:42,743 --> 01:39:44,210
Go.!

1369
01:39:45,612 --> 01:39:47,671
hold up.!
That's crap.!

1370
01:39:47,781 --> 01:39:50,249
That is dog-shit crap.!

1371
01:39:51,285 --> 01:39:53,981
Why did you have to
do something unnecessarily?

1372
01:39:54,088 --> 01:39:58,320
If you would've kept it over here, William -
Look at me!

1373
01:39:58,425 --> 01:40:02,828
If you had kept it over here, wide,
you could have gone all the way.

1374
01:40:02,930 --> 01:40:06,388
What is that crap,
the shovel pass?

1375
01:40:07,835 --> 01:40:10,235
There was never any point in our school...

1376
01:40:10,337 --> 01:40:14,865
where wejust-
just played outright,you know.

1377
01:40:16,877 --> 01:40:20,438
Now, remember, think about the ball game
on the way to the game.

1378
01:40:36,196 --> 01:40:37,925
I'll bet a nickel.

1379
01:40:38,032 --> 01:40:39,829
If I got a nickel.

1380
01:40:39,933 --> 01:40:42,163
Yeah, I got it!

1381
01:40:42,269 --> 01:40:44,169
Marshall began its season well...

1382
01:40:44,271 --> 01:40:46,171
winning four of six.

1383
01:40:46,273 --> 01:40:49,106
Today's game will be their first
against a city power.

1384
01:40:50,144 --> 01:40:53,409
The only way you gonna beat them
is to play good basketball.

1385
01:40:53,514 --> 01:40:55,914
All that bullshit that you be playin' -

1386
01:40:56,016 --> 01:40:59,179
You play half of a game, for two
or three minutes you play pretty good...

1387
01:40:59,286 --> 01:41:01,186
then you go to sleep.

1388
01:41:01,288 --> 01:41:03,756
You have to play a whole ball game.

1389
01:41:09,263 --> 01:41:12,721
When we start out,
Arthur will be completely in the ball game.

1390
01:41:15,002 --> 01:41:18,665
But as the game progresses,
then he digresses.

1391
01:41:31,752 --> 01:41:36,485
By halftime, Marshall trails
highly favored Dunbar by 15 points.

1392
01:41:47,701 --> 01:41:49,601
But late in the fourth quarter...

1393
01:41:49,703 --> 01:41:51,933
Arthur and the Commandos
claw their way back.

1394
01:41:54,508 --> 01:41:56,408
On a crucial possession...

1395
01:41:56,510 --> 01:41:58,478
the ball goes to Arthur.

1396
01:42:10,491 --> 01:42:12,459
hey, boy!
Gimme some, boy!

1397
01:42:14,761 --> 01:42:16,388
hey, Arthur G!

1398
01:42:17,798 --> 01:42:22,132
hey, Arthur G! You ever got rich,
they'd catch you for sure! Come here, dog!

1399
01:42:24,238 --> 01:42:26,138
That's it, man.!
Showin'your beef!.

1400
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:28,936
I want it up high, G.
I want it up high.

1401
01:42:39,052 --> 01:42:41,953
Led by William's 16 points a game...

1402
01:42:42,055 --> 01:42:44,387
the Chargers have a 20 and 3 record.

1403
01:42:44,491 --> 01:42:47,426
But Coach Pingatore feels they're not ready
for the impending play-offs.

1404
01:42:47,528 --> 01:42:50,429
Alabama.! Alabama.!

1405
01:42:50,531 --> 01:42:52,294
Alabama.!

1406
01:43:00,774 --> 01:43:03,436
Well, don't throw the ball!

1407
01:43:03,544 --> 01:43:06,672
Jesus, will you cut it out
and quit acting like a baby!

1408
01:43:06,780 --> 01:43:08,748
Will you quit cryin'!

1409
01:43:09,783 --> 01:43:12,547
This team just drives me crazy.

1410
01:43:13,654 --> 01:43:15,815
It's been a struggle all year.

1411
01:43:16,957 --> 01:43:18,857
You think you're better than you are.

1412
01:43:18,959 --> 01:43:21,086
The two big guys are prima donnas.

1413
01:43:21,195 --> 01:43:23,959
They should be killin'people.

1414
01:43:24,064 --> 01:43:26,965
For you people
that are really agonizing...

1415
01:43:27,067 --> 01:43:30,969
andjust hate all this stuff
and all the hollering...

1416
01:43:31,071 --> 01:43:34,097
if you don't make a turn,
it'll be over next week...

1417
01:43:34,208 --> 01:43:36,176
so you won't have to worry about it.

1418
01:43:36,276 --> 01:43:38,608
That's the point.

1419
01:43:41,381 --> 01:43:44,316
I wanna end this game
in the next three to four minutes.

1420
01:43:44,418 --> 01:43:47,387
Otherwise it's gonna be a ball game.
All right, let's go get 'em. Come on.

1421
01:43:47,487 --> 01:43:49,387
hail Mary, full of grace.

1422
01:43:49,489 --> 01:43:51,389
Blessed art thou -

1423
01:43:51,491 --> 01:43:52,507
holy Mary, Mother of
God, pray for us sinners

1424
01:43:52,508 --> 01:43:53,391
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

1425
01:43:53,493 --> 01:43:55,393
All right, let's go.
Come on.

1426
01:43:57,130 --> 01:43:59,530
William's just too nice of a kid.

1427
01:43:59,633 --> 01:44:01,760
I don't know ifhe has
the killer temperament.

1428
01:44:01,868 --> 01:44:04,336
I don't know ifhe has
the eye of the tiger.

1429
01:44:04,438 --> 01:44:06,963
he's gonna need that
when he goes to the next level.

1430
01:44:07,074 --> 01:44:09,042
Remember, square up!

1431
01:44:11,245 --> 01:44:13,679
It's business, it's big bucks...

1432
01:44:13,780 --> 01:44:15,680
and that's what the scholarship's for.

1433
01:44:15,782 --> 01:44:17,682
Good job.

1434
01:44:37,604 --> 01:44:40,004
- his coach is stingy and selfish.
- My coach is not -

1435
01:44:40,107 --> 01:44:42,507
he just want William
to run out there and play-

1436
01:44:42,609 --> 01:44:44,941
- My coach is not stingy and selfish.
- Yes, he is!

1437
01:44:45,045 --> 01:44:48,446
The day she was gonna be born
I told him he had to be there.

1438
01:44:48,548 --> 01:44:51,449
I don't care what his coach say.
I know the game was important.

1439
01:44:51,551 --> 01:44:56,215
But this was more important,
and his coach doesn't see it like that.

1440
01:44:56,323 --> 01:44:58,223
I just can't miss a game...

1441
01:44:58,325 --> 01:45:01,226
just because, you know,
an incident occur...

1442
01:45:01,328 --> 01:45:03,819
unless it was like a death
or somethin' like that.

1443
01:45:03,930 --> 01:45:07,696
This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Ain't like the girl was born every day.

1444
01:45:07,801 --> 01:45:11,202
That's what I was tryin' to get you to say.

1445
01:45:11,305 --> 01:45:14,365
Especially around that time
of the year too - state tournament.

1446
01:45:14,474 --> 01:45:16,942
It was simply out of the question.

1447
01:45:18,045 --> 01:45:21,173
he tells me,
"Well, it'll benefit us in the future. '"

1448
01:45:21,281 --> 01:45:23,181
I'm, like, "But what about now?"

1449
01:45:23,283 --> 01:45:25,183
he keeps sayin' in the fu -

1450
01:45:25,285 --> 01:45:27,719
Basketball was my ticket
out of the ghetto.

1451
01:45:27,821 --> 01:45:30,722
If I wouldn't have been playin'ball,
I would not even be goin'to college.

1452
01:45:30,824 --> 01:45:33,884
I'm goin' to college, and I have a daughter.
So what's my excuse?

1453
01:45:33,994 --> 01:45:36,121
- Because the situations are much different.
- No, it's not.

1454
01:46:08,528 --> 01:46:11,622
I haven't been workin'for about a year.

1455
01:46:15,335 --> 01:46:18,634
And if it wasn't for William
knowing Miss Wier...

1456
01:46:18,739 --> 01:46:20,639
I wouldn't even be here.

1457
01:46:20,741 --> 01:46:22,618
'Cause I walked in the door and that's

1458
01:46:22,619 --> 01:46:25,235
the first thing I see on the sign
- "No openings. "

1459
01:46:25,345 --> 01:46:29,748
It ain't much better than a person
without a college degree can get.

1460
01:46:31,651 --> 01:46:34,950
So I feel like I'll be here
for quite a while.

1461
01:46:47,234 --> 01:46:49,464
What you lookin' at?

1462
01:46:49,569 --> 01:46:53,801
I don't believe people
when they be sayin; "Wow, school's hard.!'"

1463
01:46:53,907 --> 01:46:56,398
The work weren't hard for me.

1464
01:46:56,510 --> 01:46:59,070
All right. I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.

1465
01:46:59,179 --> 01:47:02,080
If I gotta do, like,
a report or somethin;..

1466
01:47:02,182 --> 01:47:06,016
I don't like none of the topics,
so I'll just pick somethin'that's simple.

1467
01:47:09,022 --> 01:47:11,286
So, what's the topic of your paper?

1468
01:47:11,391 --> 01:47:13,723
The life cycle of the butterfly.

1469
01:47:13,827 --> 01:47:16,728
- Gonna read it for us?
- Mm-mmm.

1470
01:47:16,830 --> 01:47:18,730
Aw, come on.!

1471
01:47:18,832 --> 01:47:20,732
No, man!

1472
01:47:20,834 --> 01:47:23,667
- I wanna hear it-
- I'm just doin' this stuff!.

1473
01:47:23,770 --> 01:47:26,330
I know, but I just wanna hear
how you write.

1474
01:47:26,440 --> 01:47:28,840
"Well, as the people bloom
into another year-"

1475
01:47:28,942 --> 01:47:31,536
You know, the year just changed,
January 1.

1476
01:47:31,645 --> 01:47:33,545
"The butterfly also blooms.

1477
01:47:33,647 --> 01:47:36,047
The butterfly are very beautiful
flying objects. "

1478
01:47:36,149 --> 01:47:38,350
Then it say at the
beginning of the butterfly,

1479
01:47:38,351 --> 01:47:40,176
it goes through a change and all that.

1480
01:47:40,287 --> 01:47:43,188
Then I keep goin', man.
I just wanna, like, do that stuff.

1481
01:47:43,290 --> 01:47:46,191
Then I'll just keep goin'
on and on and on...

1482
01:47:46,293 --> 01:47:48,261
and I won't never stop.

1483
01:47:49,663 --> 01:47:52,427
Move out the way! Move!
Look out! Move out the way!

1484
01:47:54,701 --> 01:47:57,431
Its botanical name is Cannabis sativa.

1485
01:47:59,039 --> 01:48:02,167
Millions of Americans
break the law and use it.

1486
01:48:02,275 --> 01:48:04,175
Arthur's latest report card shows...

1487
01:48:04,277 --> 01:48:06,939
he's failing
both Spanish and Science.

1488
01:48:07,981 --> 01:48:09,881
he rushes through his work.

1489
01:48:09,983 --> 01:48:12,474
As you see,
he just missed one assignment.

1490
01:48:12,586 --> 01:48:14,486
Mm-hmm.

1491
01:48:14,588 --> 01:48:16,488
But his test scores were pretty low.

1492
01:48:16,590 --> 01:48:19,081
- he had a 10 on one test.
- Mmm-mm-mmm.

1493
01:48:19,192 --> 01:48:21,092
Will you do me a favor?

1494
01:48:21,194 --> 01:48:25,096
When you see things are slippin' like this,
give me a call and let me know.

1495
01:48:25,198 --> 01:48:27,598
Let me make sure I have
the right phone number.

1496
01:48:27,701 --> 01:48:29,601
So I can stay up on top of this boy.

1497
01:48:29,703 --> 01:48:31,603
Because he tells you one thing -

1498
01:48:31,705 --> 01:48:35,106
I say, "Where your book?" "We didn't have to
work on the book. It's in my locker. "

1499
01:48:35,208 --> 01:48:37,836
he gonna have to start
showin' me somethin' better.

1500
01:48:40,780 --> 01:48:41,688
he probably on the borderline,

1501
01:48:41,689 --> 01:48:43,146
and all that clownin',
people just give him an "F."

1502
01:48:43,250 --> 01:48:45,150
That's what I would do too.

1503
01:48:45,252 --> 01:48:48,153
But I'm gon' stay up on his behind
this time around.

1504
01:48:48,255 --> 01:48:51,656
'Cause I told him we payin' 181-odd dollars
out there to St. Joseph's...

1505
01:48:51,758 --> 01:48:53,658
Right.

1506
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:55,159
for his transcripts.

1507
01:48:55,262 --> 01:48:57,533
he got the transcripts
and he ain't doin' that?

1508
01:48:57,534 --> 01:48:59,426
Uh-uh. It ain't gonna happen like that.

1509
01:49:05,839 --> 01:49:07,739
Man.!

1510
01:49:07,841 --> 01:49:10,571
You remember I told you,
whatever I start I finish.

1511
01:49:11,678 --> 01:49:14,977
I'm not like some people I know.

1512
01:49:15,081 --> 01:49:17,345
I don't need nobody to push me.

1513
01:49:18,385 --> 01:49:22,446
All I gotta do is have the goal
and the motivation, and I'm ready.

1514
01:49:22,556 --> 01:49:24,854
It's Sheila's graduation day...

1515
01:49:24,958 --> 01:49:27,859
from a nurse's assistants class
at a local community center.

1516
01:49:27,961 --> 01:49:30,862
A high grade
will assure her certification.

1517
01:49:30,964 --> 01:49:33,592
I want to be an R.N. nurse.

1518
01:49:33,700 --> 01:49:35,759
I've always had that dream.

1519
01:49:38,405 --> 01:49:40,669
Well, Miss Agee.

1520
01:49:48,181 --> 01:49:50,081
- Sheila.
- hmm?

1521
01:49:50,183 --> 01:49:53,619
You scored 89 on the exam.

1522
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:57,622
You're gonna get the highest
grade point average for the class.

1523
01:49:57,724 --> 01:50:00,124
Really? Really?

1524
01:50:00,226 --> 01:50:02,194
No, no, no, no!

1525
01:50:04,164 --> 01:50:06,997
Oh, I love you, I love you, I love you!

1526
01:50:07,100 --> 01:50:09,568
Oh, I'm so happy!

1527
01:50:09,669 --> 01:50:11,899
Oh, thank you, Miss Martin!

1528
01:50:12,005 --> 01:50:13,905
You did it yourself.

1529
01:50:14,007 --> 01:50:16,908
Oh, thank you.

1530
01:50:17,010 --> 01:50:19,171
Oh, you so good.

1531
01:50:25,785 --> 01:50:28,345
I didn't think I could do it.

1532
01:50:28,455 --> 01:50:31,219
- I knew you could do it.
- Yeah, you did.

1533
01:50:31,324 --> 01:50:33,519
You gave me that belief in myself.

1534
01:50:34,728 --> 01:50:37,458
You're really inspiring me to go on.

1535
01:50:38,798 --> 01:50:41,426
Not just stop right here,
but go farther.

1536
01:50:42,469 --> 01:50:45,370
And people told me
I wasn't gon' be anything.

1537
01:51:43,096 --> 01:51:47,658
The gym is packed for today's
game against West Side rival, Westinghouse.

1538
01:51:50,937 --> 01:51:54,532
Marshall's rebounded
from last year's dismal 9 and 16 record...

1539
01:51:54,641 --> 01:51:56,609
to go 16 and six.

1540
01:51:58,845 --> 01:52:03,714
And Arthur has emerged as the Commandos'
second-leading scorer and assist man.

1541
01:52:07,554 --> 01:52:09,920
Rebound.!

1542
01:52:11,091 --> 01:52:14,060
Somejunior colleges have begun to notice.

1543
01:52:14,160 --> 01:52:17,721
A lot of these kids won't talk
to a junior college...

1544
01:52:17,831 --> 01:52:20,391
really until after they've seen
the dream of, you know...

1545
01:52:20,500 --> 01:52:23,867
Illinois and Nevada, Las Vegas
and Georgetown kind of fade.

1546
01:52:26,573 --> 01:52:29,406
Ajunior college could be Arthur's only hope.

1547
01:52:29,509 --> 01:52:32,410
Without better grades
and an 18 on the A.C. T...

1548
01:52:32,512 --> 01:52:35,208
major colleges can't offer him
a scholarship.

1549
01:52:35,315 --> 01:52:37,840
It's just too bad
those kids don't realize...

1550
01:52:37,951 --> 01:52:41,546
hey, if they had an 18,
the door is so much wider open.

1551
01:52:41,654 --> 01:52:45,181
You're in the middle.!

1552
01:52:48,661 --> 01:52:50,745
In the fourth quarter, the Commandos

1553
01:52:50,746 --> 01:52:53,257
fight back from an
11-point halftime deficit.

1554
01:52:53,366 --> 01:52:55,561
They trail by one.

1555
01:52:56,770 --> 01:52:59,330
We gotta play more aggressive on defense.
We're not good at playin' on defense.

1556
01:52:59,439 --> 01:53:00,633
Yeah, man.

1557
01:53:03,076 --> 01:53:04,771
Defense!

1558
01:53:15,622 --> 01:53:19,752
Derrick Zinneman's layup
pushes Marshall to a one-point lead.

1559
01:53:21,327 --> 01:53:23,852
Moments later,
a Westinghouse foul...

1560
01:53:23,963 --> 01:53:26,277
and then a double technical puts Arthur

1561
01:53:26,278 --> 01:53:28,866
on the line with a
chance to ice the victory.

1562
01:53:47,453 --> 01:53:50,286
One more! Whoo!

1563
01:53:59,365 --> 01:54:03,802
The upset win is sweet vindication
for the unranked Commandos.

1564
01:54:24,924 --> 01:54:28,018
- Arthur Agee, you lead the books.
- Junior!

1565
01:54:28,127 --> 01:54:31,187
You got seven.

1566
01:54:31,297 --> 01:54:35,028
Seven turnovers.
Even for the guards, that's too many.

1567
01:54:36,536 --> 01:54:40,734
This is a good win for you,
but it doesn't mean anything.

1568
01:54:40,840 --> 01:54:42,899
You gotta do better than that, man.

1569
01:54:43,009 --> 01:54:44,943
You have to do better than that.

1570
01:54:45,044 --> 01:54:46,944
Yeah, man.
That was a good game though.

1571
01:54:47,046 --> 01:54:49,014
You could have played better though,
you know.

1572
01:54:49,115 --> 01:54:51,982
Oh, Mom. You know he did good.
You'rejust killing me.

1573
01:54:52,085 --> 01:54:54,485
You know your mother's proud of you.

1574
01:54:54,587 --> 01:54:57,556
he been gettin' down.

1575
01:54:57,657 --> 01:55:00,785
Like a real star.

1576
01:55:03,296 --> 01:55:04,957
Number 11...

1577
01:55:05,064 --> 01:55:09,023
Arthur Agee.!

1578
01:55:11,771 --> 01:55:12,824
Nearly four years

1579
01:55:12,825 --> 01:55:15,298
after discovering Arthur
on the playground...

1580
01:55:15,408 --> 01:55:19,401
Earl Smith shows up to see Arthur win
his first play-off game.

1581
01:55:19,512 --> 01:55:25,109
I figured this game and the next game
may be his last high school ball game.

1582
01:55:27,587 --> 01:55:29,612
- Where you been, man?
- Where I been?

1583
01:55:29,722 --> 01:55:31,622
- Yeah. Where you been?
- I've been workin'.

1584
01:55:31,724 --> 01:55:34,022
- Oh, yeah, right.
- I've been following you in the paper.

1585
01:55:34,127 --> 01:55:37,392
- Oh, yeah. You impressed or somethin'?
- Yeah. I'm impressed. I'm here, ain't I?

1586
01:55:37,497 --> 01:55:40,933
- If I wasn't, I wouldn't have followed you.
- You been talking to Ping?

1587
01:55:41,034 --> 01:55:43,264
- For what?
- You don't talk to him no more?

1588
01:55:43,369 --> 01:55:45,894
- Why not?
- What do I have to talk to him about?

1589
01:55:46,005 --> 01:55:47,905
- Well,Jamal -
- You ain't there.

1590
01:55:48,007 --> 01:55:51,443
- Yeah, you're right. I had to break out.
- Yeah.

1591
01:55:52,478 --> 01:55:57,381
So I was thinkin' about goin' tonight
to see, uh, St. Joe and Nazareth play...

1592
01:55:57,483 --> 01:56:01,180
but I wasn't sure
if you had time to do it.

1593
01:56:02,655 --> 01:56:04,623
Yeah.

1594
01:56:05,959 --> 01:56:09,588
I've got a bitter taste in my mouth
about a lot of things that happened.

1595
01:56:09,696 --> 01:56:13,723
A lot of people accuse me
of taking youngsters...

1596
01:56:13,833 --> 01:56:16,495
out of the inner city and taking them out
to St. Joe high School...

1597
01:56:16,602 --> 01:56:19,196
and they ask
what did I get out of the deal and...

1598
01:56:19,305 --> 01:56:23,765
a lot of racial slurs and so forth from
my own people about me, about what I did.

1599
01:56:23,876 --> 01:56:27,903
I still felt and feel
that I was doing the right thing...

1600
01:56:28,014 --> 01:56:30,073
for that particular time.

1601
01:56:30,183 --> 01:56:33,550
Uh, sometimes I have second thoughts...

1602
01:56:33,653 --> 01:56:36,588
when I see the net results
of what happened with the youngsters.

1603
01:57:01,114 --> 01:57:03,173
Arthur.

1604
01:57:03,282 --> 01:57:05,307
- Arthur-
- Arthur Agee, sophomore.

1605
01:57:05,418 --> 01:57:07,318
My gosh. What are you doin'?

1606
01:57:07,420 --> 01:57:09,354
- What are you doin' now?
- Goin' to school.

1607
01:57:09,455 --> 01:57:11,355
- Where?
- Marshall.

1608
01:57:11,457 --> 01:57:14,620
Oh, I taught him.
Can you believe it?

1609
01:57:14,727 --> 01:57:17,689
- So you came in case you
have to play St. Joe's?

1610
01:57:17,690 --> 01:57:18,163
- Yeah.

1611
01:57:18,264 --> 01:57:20,494
Arthur. Arthur.

1612
01:57:24,771 --> 01:57:26,671
- What's up, man?
- What's up, man?

1613
01:57:26,773 --> 01:57:28,982
- What you been up to?
You playing basketball?

1614
01:57:28,983 --> 01:57:29,640
- What? Yeah.

1615
01:57:29,742 --> 01:57:31,835
- how'd you guys do?
- We did a'ight. Still playin;

1616
01:57:31,944 --> 01:57:34,174
Still playin'?
When's your next game?

1617
01:57:34,280 --> 01:57:36,126
- We gotta play Crane.
high school in Chicago.

1618
01:57:36,127 --> 01:57:36,680
- That's cool.

1619
01:57:36,783 --> 01:57:38,683
It'll be all right.

1620
01:58:03,876 --> 01:58:07,243
William is benched
for arriving late to the locker room...

1621
01:58:07,346 --> 01:58:10,247
and Nazareth threatens.

1622
01:58:17,256 --> 01:58:21,215
William enters the game to go head-to-head
with Nazareth star Sean Pearson...

1623
01:58:21,327 --> 01:58:24,490
his friend and roommate
from the Nike camp.

1624
01:58:32,705 --> 01:58:35,731
The favored Chargers
race to an early 14-point lead...

1625
01:58:35,842 --> 01:58:38,402
in this second-round play-off game.

1626
01:58:38,511 --> 01:58:41,810
Give me an "E"!
Give me an "R"!

1627
01:58:42,915 --> 01:58:44,883
But near the end of the game...

1628
01:58:44,984 --> 01:58:46,952
St. Joe's begins to unravel.

1629
01:58:56,662 --> 01:58:58,562
William takes control.

1630
01:59:09,041 --> 01:59:11,532
Pearson responds.

1631
01:59:17,483 --> 01:59:21,579
his three-point shot gives the Roadrunners
their first lead of the game.

1632
01:59:26,058 --> 01:59:30,495
For the Chargers, their whole season
may come down to this possession.

1633
01:59:33,699 --> 01:59:36,224
Down by one,
with just over a minute remaining.

1634
01:59:36,335 --> 01:59:41,671
A loss tonight would be their earliest
exit from the play-offs in six years.

1635
01:59:41,774 --> 01:59:44,368
And for William,
there is no next year...

1636
01:59:44,477 --> 01:59:46,809
no more chances to get downstate.

1637
02:00:59,018 --> 02:01:01,680
It ain't but one thing: bad coaching.

1638
02:01:01,787 --> 02:01:03,687
Bad coaching.

1639
02:01:06,259 --> 02:01:09,126
Well, we got him here
about five minutes late.

1640
02:01:09,228 --> 02:01:13,756
So what? This -This ain't no time
to be teaching nobody no lesson.

1641
02:01:24,910 --> 02:01:26,810
All right, boy.

1642
02:01:27,980 --> 02:01:29,948
It's all right, bro.

1643
02:01:31,817 --> 02:01:35,014
- You all right? You're crying, man.
- Shut up.

1644
02:01:35,121 --> 02:01:37,385
Yeah.

1645
02:01:37,490 --> 02:01:40,015
- It hurt, don't it?
- Yeah. More than ever, man.

1646
02:01:40,126 --> 02:01:43,166
- I didn't never want
to go out this way, man.

1647
02:01:43,167 --> 02:01:44,654
- Your last year, man.

1648
02:01:44,764 --> 02:01:47,733
I'm trying to get it, man.
I'm striving for the same thing.

1649
02:01:51,270 --> 02:01:53,397
hey, man. We'll call you.
Give me a ring. All right?

1650
02:01:53,506 --> 02:01:56,703
- All right.
- You played a good game, boy. All right.

1651
02:01:56,809 --> 02:01:59,744
You're gonna be all right.

1652
02:01:59,845 --> 02:02:02,405
- I love you, boy.
- I love you too, man.

1653
02:02:02,515 --> 02:02:04,483
All right.

1654
02:02:09,288 --> 02:02:12,416
William was 20 minutes late.

1655
02:02:12,525 --> 02:02:14,891
The team was dressed and already talking.

1656
02:02:14,994 --> 02:02:17,656
Then he came strolling in.

1657
02:02:17,763 --> 02:02:20,197
Maybe he has to learn something from that.

1658
02:02:20,299 --> 02:02:22,961
Even in a big game.

1659
02:02:26,005 --> 02:02:27,905
The game was a mirror-

1660
02:02:28,007 --> 02:02:30,908
It was a mirror
of all of the games all year.

1661
02:02:31,010 --> 02:02:36,107
To quote Isiah, the toughest loss
he ever took was the-

1662
02:02:36,215 --> 02:02:38,575
My toughest. And that
was the De La Salle game

1663
02:02:38,576 --> 02:02:40,584
in 1979 when we got beat at the buzzer.

1664
02:02:40,686 --> 02:02:44,679
On a 30-footer. And we were favored
to win the state that year.

1665
02:02:44,790 --> 02:02:49,659
Um, now we look back on it
as just one of those great moments in -

1666
02:02:49,762 --> 02:02:52,322
in our high school scene.

1667
02:02:52,431 --> 02:02:54,899
Our toughest loss to take,
and we talk about it.

1668
02:02:55,000 --> 02:02:57,992
So that's what I look at, you know,
with these things now.

1669
02:02:59,505 --> 02:03:02,702
- Arthur, we could have used you tonight.
- Yeah.

1670
02:03:02,808 --> 02:03:05,174
Good luck.
I'm gonna be watchin'. Don't forget.

1671
02:03:05,277 --> 02:03:07,177
Stay in touch.

1672
02:03:07,279 --> 02:03:09,179
- 'Cause we've talked about -You know.
- Yeah.

1673
02:03:09,281 --> 02:03:10,714
- School.
- Yeah.

1674
02:03:10,816 --> 02:03:13,011
All right. I'm watching you score.
how's your grades?

1675
02:03:13,119 --> 02:03:15,019
- They're all right.
- Good.

1676
02:03:15,121 --> 02:03:17,021
- They're all right.
- We missed you.

1677
02:03:17,123 --> 02:03:21,526
- I missed y'all too.
- Well, I'm proud of what you've done.

1678
02:03:21,627 --> 02:03:23,993
Mr. Bedford said
a lot of good things about you.

1679
02:03:24,096 --> 02:03:26,496
- You be in touch. Okay?
- Okay. All right.

1680
02:03:26,599 --> 02:03:28,499
- Good luck.
- All right. You too.

1681
02:03:52,491 --> 02:03:56,257
Marshall's second-round opponent,
Manley, presents little challenge.

1682
02:03:56,362 --> 02:03:59,695
This just explains a little bit
about our program...

1683
02:03:59,799 --> 02:04:01,994
where our program's headed.

1684
02:04:02,101 --> 02:04:04,729
I like what you're sayin;
and I want him close to home.

1685
02:04:04,837 --> 02:04:06,930
- Yeah.
- You know. And, uh -

1686
02:04:07,039 --> 02:04:09,371
I think, you know -
I'm kind of leaning your way...

1687
02:04:09,475 --> 02:04:12,298
because I just thank God
that he's getting into it -

1688
02:04:12,299 --> 02:04:14,003
you know, somebody do want him.

1689
02:04:16,515 --> 02:04:18,983
I'm Tommy Travis,
Northeastern Illinois assistant coach.

1690
02:04:19,084 --> 02:04:20,984
- Okay. Nice to meet you.
- I'm Arthur's father.

1691
02:04:21,086 --> 02:04:23,350
- Arthur hester.
- Okay. Arthur hester.

1692
02:04:23,456 --> 02:04:24,980
Us Arts gotta stick together.

1693
02:04:25,090 --> 02:04:26,489
- I'm over at Kennedy-King.
- Kennedy-King?

1694
02:04:26,592 --> 02:04:28,492
- Yeah.
- Okay.

1695
02:04:28,594 --> 02:04:30,687
May the best man win.

1696
02:04:30,796 --> 02:04:34,425
- I thought mom was a cheerleader.
- Oh, thanks.

1697
02:04:35,668 --> 02:04:37,636
Thank you for the compliment.

1698
02:04:37,736 --> 02:04:41,536
his parents seem to think
he may, uh, pass the A.C.T.

1699
02:04:41,640 --> 02:04:43,938
- he may what?
- he may pass it.

1700
02:04:44,043 --> 02:04:46,511
Oh, yeah.
Well, I hope he does.

1701
02:04:46,612 --> 02:04:49,137
- Us Arts gotta stick together, guy.
- Yeah.

1702
02:04:50,816 --> 02:04:52,613
- Okay.
- hey.

1703
02:04:52,718 --> 02:04:55,881
Would you get excited if a college coach
came up and talked to you?

1704
02:04:56,922 --> 02:04:58,890
Not really.

1705
02:04:59,925 --> 02:05:01,825
Really, it's just-
You'rejust going...

1706
02:05:01,927 --> 02:05:04,623
to another level
ofbasketball. That's all.

1707
02:05:04,730 --> 02:05:06,823
I'll be excited when I get there.

1708
02:05:06,932 --> 02:05:09,628
That's when you'll be
excited the whole year.

1709
02:05:09,735 --> 02:05:13,603
I'll be excited as soon as I step up
in there - first day of practice.

1710
02:05:15,074 --> 02:05:18,100
If I graduate, I think I'll be
the only one in my family...

1711
02:05:18,210 --> 02:05:21,043
besides my uncle,
to finish college.

1712
02:05:21,146 --> 02:05:23,341
Me too.

1713
02:05:25,951 --> 02:05:28,476
In the fourth round
against heavily favored Taft...

1714
02:05:28,587 --> 02:05:31,556
Marshall meets their first
true test of the play-offs.

1715
02:05:35,728 --> 02:05:38,458
But the Commandos have been
bucking the odds all year.

1716
02:05:48,574 --> 02:05:51,702
Arthur plays one ofhis best games
of the season...

1717
02:05:51,810 --> 02:05:53,710
scoring 19 points...

1718
02:05:53,812 --> 02:05:57,270
and the Commandos claim a spot
in the city semifinals.

1719
02:06:07,893 --> 02:06:12,921
The final four! I told y'all
he was going all the way. All the way!

1720
02:06:13,032 --> 02:06:15,728
Do you guys feel you can play with
any team in the city?

1721
02:06:15,834 --> 02:06:18,530
On any given day, we can play with anybody.
We can beat anybody.

1722
02:06:30,215 --> 02:06:32,740
Marshall now faces
the ultimate test::

1723
02:06:32,851 --> 02:06:36,252
King high School,
the rulers of the public league.

1724
02:06:38,357 --> 02:06:40,452
Winners oflast year's state crown,

1725
02:06:40,453 --> 02:06:43,226
they were labeled the
best team in the country.

1726
02:06:43,329 --> 02:06:46,992
King has sparked controversy
by out-recruiting rivals...

1727
02:06:47,099 --> 02:06:50,262
for the biggest and best
grammar school players.

1728
02:06:50,369 --> 02:06:54,806
We don't understand what
we're really doing to these young kids.

1729
02:06:54,907 --> 02:06:56,807
Kid not even 12 years old...

1730
02:06:56,909 --> 02:06:59,139
and you're baiting him
to come to your school...

1731
02:06:59,244 --> 02:07:01,144
you know, to play basketball.

1732
02:07:01,246 --> 02:07:03,339
Falls back in the paint.

1733
02:07:03,449 --> 02:07:06,145
I'm not going to start
recruiting in that manner.

1734
02:07:06,251 --> 02:07:09,550
No, I'll probably get out
of the game before then.

1735
02:07:11,857 --> 02:07:14,257
The winner of these two semifinal games...

1736
02:07:14,360 --> 02:07:18,319
will play for the Chicago Public
high School Basketball Championship.

1737
02:07:24,103 --> 02:07:29,473
King's strategy is to
go inside to its two seven-foot starters.

1738
02:07:33,912 --> 02:07:37,348
Only Arthur seems
unintimidated by theJaguars.

1739
02:07:43,522 --> 02:07:46,286
And King's poor play
keeps the game close.

1740
02:07:47,326 --> 02:07:49,920
We are the... best.!
We are the team!

1741
02:07:50,029 --> 02:07:52,156
I think they gonna take it.

1742
02:07:53,198 --> 02:07:56,656
But in the second half,
King makes their move.

1743
02:08:00,472 --> 02:08:02,633
- What are you doin'?
- Come on. Get in the game.!

1744
02:08:02,741 --> 02:08:05,175
King grabs a four-point lead.

1745
02:08:05,277 --> 02:08:07,677
hey, Mookie, Mookie, Mookie!

1746
02:08:07,780 --> 02:08:10,112
Y'all playing
with no confidence whatsoever.

1747
02:08:10,215 --> 02:08:12,149
None!

1748
02:08:12,251 --> 02:08:14,549
None.!

1749
02:08:14,653 --> 02:08:17,554
- All right! Go get in charge of that ball!
- Don't foul him! Don't foul him!

1750
02:08:22,394 --> 02:08:23,861
Let's go! Let's go!

1751
02:08:23,962 --> 02:08:26,897
The Commandos get aggressive on defense...

1752
02:08:26,999 --> 02:08:29,194
Too soon now!

1753
02:08:29,301 --> 02:08:32,361
and use their superior speed on offense.

1754
02:08:44,149 --> 02:08:47,277
Players, sit down.
We got three minutes to go. Sit down.

1755
02:08:47,386 --> 02:08:50,480
Marshall grabs a six-point lead
late in the game.

1756
02:08:50,589 --> 02:08:52,580
We got a long time to play.

1757
02:08:53,959 --> 02:08:57,087
Coach Bedford wants to force King
out of their zone defense...

1758
02:08:57,196 --> 02:09:01,530
and make their big, slow players match up
man-to-man against Marshall's quick guards.

1759
02:09:01,633 --> 02:09:04,033
One, two, three. Defense!

1760
02:09:07,906 --> 02:09:11,239
Arthur simply holds the ball
as the clock ticks away.

1761
02:09:17,716 --> 02:09:20,344
The King coach has no choice.

1762
02:09:39,471 --> 02:09:43,134
For the defending national champions,
it's all over.

1763
02:09:48,914 --> 02:09:52,179
And unranked Marshall
will play for the city title.

1764
02:10:09,802 --> 02:10:14,000
Whoo! 26-2 now!

1765
02:10:15,774 --> 02:10:18,208
They're 26 and 2 now.

1766
02:10:18,310 --> 02:10:20,835
That's my Man!

1767
02:10:21,880 --> 02:10:24,178
All right, Man!

1768
02:10:24,283 --> 02:10:26,183
- I told you we could do it.
- Yes!

1769
02:10:26,285 --> 02:10:29,015
- I told you we could do it.
- I told you you were gonna do it.

1770
02:10:29,121 --> 02:10:31,021
I knew y'all was going all the way.
I told ya.

1771
02:10:31,123 --> 02:10:33,023
I said, "You're going all the way. "

1772
02:10:34,059 --> 02:10:37,426
This is your last year.
You're going all the way. Yeah.

1773
02:10:39,498 --> 02:10:42,592
They got the best shot ofhim,you know.

1774
02:10:42,701 --> 02:10:46,102
And it's great.
That was a great shot, wasn't it?

1775
02:10:46,205 --> 02:10:50,733
But this one in the, uh, Tribune
is what I really like.

1776
02:10:50,843 --> 02:10:54,643
It says,
"Arthur Agee stood as still as a statue.

1777
02:10:54,746 --> 02:10:58,113
Time after time was on his side. "

1778
02:10:58,217 --> 02:11:01,550
You know, the championship
that I missed when I was in high school-

1779
02:11:01,653 --> 02:11:03,553
Yeah.

1780
02:11:03,655 --> 02:11:07,284
Twenty-one years later I got a chance
at getting a championship through him.

1781
02:11:07,392 --> 02:11:09,917
You know, you're always trying to
build your children up...

1782
02:11:10,028 --> 02:11:11,928
and saying, "Well, you-all can do it"...

1783
02:11:12,030 --> 02:11:14,828
but, you know, really lying on
the inside a little bit, saying...

1784
02:11:14,933 --> 02:11:16,833
"Well, you know, you got a long haul. "

1785
02:11:16,935 --> 02:11:18,994
But, you know,
this make you even more confidence...

1786
02:11:19,104 --> 02:11:22,039
because if he's sure of hisself,
then you know you can bank on it.

1787
02:11:22,140 --> 02:11:26,634
Yesterday, you know, when he won the game,
you know, he told me he loved me.

1788
02:11:26,745 --> 02:11:29,407
And, you know, I haven't heard that
in, uh -You know.

1789
02:11:29,514 --> 02:11:33,951
You can feel it, but I haven't heard it
coming verbally from him.

1790
02:11:44,563 --> 02:11:48,021
In a rematch with rival Westinghouse...

1791
02:11:48,133 --> 02:11:52,194
Marshall proves to everybody
they have what it takes to be city champs.

1792
02:11:52,304 --> 02:11:55,137
Inside pass. Shot rejected.

1793
02:11:59,478 --> 02:12:02,345
To the lane with the layin.

1794
02:12:02,447 --> 02:12:05,211
Busts this game wide open.

1795
02:12:05,317 --> 02:12:09,686
Did you see that?
Did you see it? Did you see it?

1796
02:12:11,156 --> 02:12:14,216
They are celebrating because they know...

1797
02:12:14,326 --> 02:12:17,352
their high school is headed
to the elite eight in Champaign.

1798
02:12:21,033 --> 02:12:24,833
And the Marshall Commandos
have won the Public League Championship...

1799
02:12:24,937 --> 02:12:27,064
in convincing fashion-

1800
02:12:27,172 --> 02:12:32,166
58-38 winners over
the Westinghouse Warriors.

1801
02:12:46,158 --> 02:12:49,093
What's up, man?
Told you on the phone what I was gonna do.

1802
02:12:49,194 --> 02:12:51,162
Told you, boy.

1803
02:12:54,333 --> 02:12:57,131
Marshall, baby. Marshall!

1804
02:12:57,235 --> 02:12:59,135
Marshall!

1805
02:12:59,237 --> 02:13:03,037
Marshall.! Marshall.!

1806
02:13:03,141 --> 02:13:06,975
Marshall.! Marshall.!

1807
02:13:14,119 --> 02:13:18,112
Your A.C.T. came in, William,
and you received a 14 for a composite...

1808
02:13:18,223 --> 02:13:20,418
which is not high enough.

1809
02:13:20,525 --> 02:13:23,255
Uh,you've taken the test-
Now, this was for the fourth time.

1810
02:13:23,362 --> 02:13:26,854
Now, if you add all those up,
it comes out to 17.2.

1811
02:13:26,965 --> 02:13:29,729
In order to play at Marquette,
you're gonna have to get the 18.

1812
02:13:29,835 --> 02:13:31,735
And they're very, very concerned.

1813
02:13:31,837 --> 02:13:35,773
One assistant called twice this week,
and Bo Ellis called today.

1814
02:13:37,909 --> 02:13:40,537
Smile, William.
It's not the end of the world.

1815
02:13:40,645 --> 02:13:42,579
- Right?
- I hope not.

1816
02:13:42,681 --> 02:13:45,912
Well,you gotta work at this
as hard as you worked at yourjump shot.

1817
02:13:46,018 --> 02:13:48,509
And it was missing a lot this year.

1818
02:13:48,620 --> 02:13:50,588
Okay.

1819
02:13:50,689 --> 02:13:54,216
Now you are down to the final inning
and the last strike.

1820
02:14:00,665 --> 02:14:03,600
We're going, going downstate!
We're going downstate!

1821
02:14:03,702 --> 02:14:06,865
Now let's, let's celebrate!
Now let's celebrate!

1822
02:14:06,972 --> 02:14:09,736
- What are we gonna be?
- State champions.!

1823
02:14:09,841 --> 02:14:12,708
Your Marshall Commandos.!

1824
02:14:17,115 --> 02:14:19,208
- Yeah!
- We're gonna take state!

1825
02:14:19,317 --> 02:14:21,478
Take state! Number one!

1826
02:14:47,379 --> 02:14:50,212
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A.!

1827
02:14:50,315 --> 02:14:53,307
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A.!

1828
02:14:53,418 --> 02:14:57,514
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A!

1829
02:15:06,565 --> 02:15:10,592
Downstate Marshall plays
its familiar role as underdog...

1830
02:15:10,702 --> 02:15:12,602
to third-ranked Batavia.

1831
02:15:12,704 --> 02:15:14,604
Justice has it. Justice, one-on-two.

1832
02:15:14,706 --> 02:15:17,300
- Spins up-
- Nice move.

1833
02:15:21,213 --> 02:15:25,274
In the media glare of a statewide
audience, Marshall shows big-gamejitters.

1834
02:15:25,383 --> 02:15:27,317
Now bust out.

1835
02:15:27,419 --> 02:15:30,252
And Marshall missed the layup.

1836
02:15:31,756 --> 02:15:34,190
Sealed off,blocked by Williams.

1837
02:15:34,292 --> 02:15:38,194
You got easy shots.
You gotta make your easy shots.

1838
02:15:38,296 --> 02:15:40,264
I can't shoot for you.

1839
02:15:40,365 --> 02:15:45,064
Now he's gonna penetrate.
Left it for Christian. Missed the shot.

1840
02:15:45,170 --> 02:15:50,073
Luther Bedford looks like
he's ready to commit suicide over there.

1841
02:15:50,175 --> 02:15:52,769
Y'all better get on your job,
Commandos!

1842
02:15:52,878 --> 02:15:55,005
- Now into the corner.
- Get in there.

1843
02:15:55,113 --> 02:15:58,480
Batavia's got these guys on the run.

1844
02:16:00,585 --> 02:16:02,485
One, one, one, one!

1845
02:16:02,587 --> 02:16:05,055
One, one, one, one.!

1846
02:16:06,525 --> 02:16:09,585
But in the third quarter,
the Commandos charge back.

1847
02:16:09,694 --> 02:16:11,594
And a steal by Marshall.!

1848
02:16:11,696 --> 02:16:14,392
Agee gonna take it all the way.

1849
02:16:14,499 --> 02:16:18,663
Yes! That's the way you go!

1850
02:16:18,770 --> 02:16:20,931
- here we go.
- Picked him clean.

1851
02:16:21,039 --> 02:16:22,973
Dale. Marshall leads.

1852
02:16:23,074 --> 02:16:26,168
Marshall's first lead
since the first quarter.

1853
02:16:26,278 --> 02:16:29,270
Like a lightning bolt,
the Commandos have struck.

1854
02:16:29,381 --> 02:16:32,908
37-36, Marshall leading Batavia.

1855
02:16:33,018 --> 02:16:35,748
Chicago Marshall has exploded-

1856
02:16:40,492 --> 02:16:42,426
I always dreamed of,like...

1857
02:16:42,527 --> 02:16:45,325
me and William taking
them downstate together.

1858
02:16:46,431 --> 02:16:48,331
When I was at St. Joseph...

1859
02:16:48,433 --> 02:16:51,027
maybe we could have went downstate,
and maybe we couldn't.

1860
02:16:51,136 --> 02:16:54,071
But we did when I'm at Marshall.

1861
02:17:07,686 --> 02:17:10,280
Arthur's big fourth quarter
helps add Batavia...

1862
02:17:10,388 --> 02:17:12,322
to Marshall's growing list of upsets.

1863
02:17:12,424 --> 02:17:16,019
Spectacular comeback
in the fourth quarter by the Commandos-

1864
02:17:16,127 --> 02:17:18,027
In the postgame news conference...

1865
02:17:18,129 --> 02:17:21,326
Coach Bedford labels
his unranked team "the giant killers. '"

1866
02:17:25,337 --> 02:17:28,067
- Y'all are playing the number one team.
- We're playing the number one team.

1867
02:17:28,173 --> 02:17:30,073
We're playing the number two team.

1868
02:17:30,175 --> 02:17:34,043
This is the first time in the history
of the school that we've gone this far.

1869
02:17:34,145 --> 02:17:36,773
- Really?
- In the history of the school.

1870
02:17:36,881 --> 02:17:39,247
Just like the Commandos.
See, we been the underdog.

1871
02:17:39,351 --> 02:17:42,752
I'm glad we are because then
it just show you how you could come up.

1872
02:17:42,854 --> 02:17:45,379
And then you beat your opponent.

1873
02:17:47,592 --> 02:17:49,822
Oh,yeah.

1874
02:18:03,742 --> 02:18:06,734
Be a good place for Man to come.

1875
02:18:06,845 --> 02:18:10,008
Yeah. This is really, you know,
something that a -

1876
02:18:10,115 --> 02:18:12,709
a child would really miss out on.

1877
02:18:12,817 --> 02:18:15,377
Like a whole different world.

1878
02:18:15,487 --> 02:18:17,478
It's beyond different.

1879
02:18:17,589 --> 02:18:20,217
Uh-huh.

1880
02:18:28,300 --> 02:18:32,100
In this semifinal game,
we'll see some great individuals...

1881
02:18:32,203 --> 02:18:34,228
just as we saw many years ago.

1882
02:18:34,339 --> 02:18:37,308
Remember Isiah Thomas,
one of the great guards.

1883
02:18:37,409 --> 02:18:40,810
here you see the same moves
he plays with in the NBA today.

1884
02:18:40,912 --> 02:18:44,905
Well, we've got someone like that:
howard Nathan, number 34...

1885
02:18:45,016 --> 02:18:46,950
for Peoria Manual.

1886
02:18:47,052 --> 02:18:49,145
Marshall got here because of
one reason: quickness.

1887
02:18:49,254 --> 02:18:53,384
The reason: Arthur Agee.
Look at this man. he just explodes, Dan.

1888
02:18:53,491 --> 02:18:57,188
he can get downcourt
as quick as anyone I've ever seen.

1889
02:18:57,295 --> 02:18:59,195
In the semifinals...

1890
02:18:59,297 --> 02:19:02,664
Arthur goes head-to-head
with howard Nathan, the all-American.

1891
02:19:02,767 --> 02:19:05,793
Make him work for it, Man.
Make him work for what he get.

1892
02:19:06,838 --> 02:19:09,966
All right! Let's go!
All the way, Man! All the way!

1893
02:19:11,309 --> 02:19:14,301
Yeah! That's it! That's it! That's it!

1894
02:19:14,412 --> 02:19:19,042
Arthur Agee, spinning inside,
tough shot. Good.

1895
02:19:19,150 --> 02:19:21,345
Arthur has a great first half...

1896
02:19:21,453 --> 02:19:23,683
but the Rams play even better.

1897
02:19:25,357 --> 02:19:27,757
he's got it.

1898
02:19:28,793 --> 02:19:31,489
Get up for the Rams!
Everybody get up!

1899
02:19:31,596 --> 02:19:33,860
Get up for the Rams.!

1900
02:19:33,965 --> 02:19:37,492
In the second half,
Arthur tries to pick up where he left off.

1901
02:19:37,602 --> 02:19:39,366
Penetration move by Agee. Slapped

1902
02:19:39,367 --> 02:19:41,766
out of there by Manual.
They've got two-on-one.

1903
02:19:41,873 --> 02:19:44,808
Ooh, and a nice fake and a score.

1904
02:19:44,909 --> 02:19:47,742
But it's the Rams who don't miss a beat...

1905
02:19:47,846 --> 02:19:49,780
pressing the tempo against
the tired Commandos.

1906
02:19:49,881 --> 02:19:52,543
You're not in the offense at all.

1907
02:19:52,650 --> 02:19:55,278
You're just out there
playing individual basketball.

1908
02:19:55,387 --> 02:19:57,287
Completely.

1909
02:19:57,389 --> 02:20:01,416
hey, hey, guys. No fouls.
We want to keep the clock going. Remember?

1910
02:20:01,526 --> 02:20:03,551
Let's go, Marshall!
Let's go!

1911
02:20:03,661 --> 02:20:06,391
Let's go, Marshall.!
Let's go.!

1912
02:20:06,498 --> 02:20:09,592
Marshall showed us last night
they have the ability to come back.

1913
02:20:09,701 --> 02:20:11,692
Let's see what they can do here.

1914
02:20:26,351 --> 02:20:28,444
This is Nathan.

1915
02:20:28,553 --> 02:20:30,453
Nice pass.
Knock it down.

1916
02:20:30,555 --> 02:20:34,355
Biggest lead of the game now,
and the Rams fans can smell it.

1917
02:20:35,860 --> 02:20:38,727
Been a great run
for Luther Bedford's team.

1918
02:20:39,764 --> 02:20:42,130
The string of upsets stops here.

1919
02:20:43,768 --> 02:20:46,760
- And a foul on Agee.
- he fouls out.

1920
02:20:46,871 --> 02:20:50,034
But hejust never quit.
hejust kept going for the basketball.

1921
02:20:54,979 --> 02:20:59,439
I wouldn't be surprised
ifhe made the all-tournament team tonight.

1922
02:21:19,771 --> 02:21:22,296
- Number one!
- We're number one.!

1923
02:21:22,407 --> 02:21:24,341
We're still number one.

1924
02:21:24,442 --> 02:21:26,342
All right. All right.

1925
02:21:26,444 --> 02:21:28,435
Though they lose to Peoria Manual...

1926
02:21:28,546 --> 02:21:33,677
they finish third in the state, the highest
a Marshall team has finished since 1960.

1927
02:21:36,254 --> 02:21:39,712
This was a great season you had.

1928
02:21:39,824 --> 02:21:44,921
There is nothing sweeter
than going downstate as a young person.

1929
02:21:45,029 --> 02:21:47,395
I mean, the record's
gonna stay there, you know.

1930
02:21:47,499 --> 02:21:50,866
1991, there was a team
from Marshall played.

1931
02:21:50,969 --> 02:21:53,199
- You know, and you're part of that.
- Yeah.

1932
02:21:53,304 --> 02:21:55,431
- That's part of history.
- Ah!

1933
02:21:55,540 --> 02:21:58,703
But for you seniors,you know-

1934
02:21:58,810 --> 02:22:03,873
Best wishes to all you seniors,
and whatever you try to do, uh...

1935
02:22:03,982 --> 02:22:06,473
Mr. Williams and I
will be around school...

1936
02:22:06,584 --> 02:22:08,484
as we always are -

1937
02:22:08,586 --> 02:22:11,316
to help you if you want to be helped, okay?

1938
02:22:13,558 --> 02:22:17,289
Winning five games in six days,
that really takes a lot out of you.

1939
02:22:17,395 --> 02:22:20,387
Like Coach said,you just gotta sacrifice-

1940
02:22:20,498 --> 02:22:22,489
you know, sacrifice everything you have.

1941
02:22:22,600 --> 02:22:24,329
Like, if you love the
game of basketball,

1942
02:22:24,330 --> 02:22:26,263
you just go out there
and give all your heart.

1943
02:22:26,371 --> 02:22:29,431
he got a little ways to go,
but he's - he's gonna get there.

1944
02:22:29,541 --> 02:22:32,066
hopefully he's got his head
screwed on pretty good, you know...

1945
02:22:32,176 --> 02:22:36,340
and now, you know,
he's gonna be on his own to do whatever.

1946
02:22:36,447 --> 02:22:38,347
hopefully he'll do it right.

1947
02:22:38,449 --> 02:22:42,078
When we got down here, people don't expect -
"Marshall? how'd they get down here?"

1948
02:22:42,186 --> 02:22:44,179
They lookin' like: "Who
they got on their team?"

1949
02:22:44,180 --> 02:22:45,644
I had to come out and prove myself.

1950
02:22:45,757 --> 02:22:49,488
I think I could play Division I basketball.

1951
02:22:49,594 --> 02:22:53,553
'Cause all I need is just a scholarship.
That's -That's all I'm looking for.

1952
02:22:53,665 --> 02:22:55,633
Arthur Agee.

1953
02:23:00,872 --> 02:23:02,840
All right!

1954
02:23:23,227 --> 02:23:26,526
All this area through here
is our new computer labs.

1955
02:23:26,631 --> 02:23:28,565
We'll take you through
all those rooms.

1956
02:23:28,666 --> 02:23:30,691
Arthur's first recruiting visit...

1957
02:23:30,802 --> 02:23:32,963
takes him to a junior college
in Southern Missouri.

1958
02:23:33,071 --> 02:23:35,219
The strength that I see here

1959
02:23:35,220 --> 02:23:38,475
is the tremendous
teaching that goes on here.

1960
02:23:38,576 --> 02:23:40,840
have you decided
what you want to go into?

1961
02:23:40,945 --> 02:23:43,140
Uh, communications.

1962
02:23:43,247 --> 02:23:47,206
Are you more interested
in the overall communications -

1963
02:23:47,318 --> 02:23:49,878
That, and, uh -
I like that and accounting.

1964
02:23:49,988 --> 02:23:52,320
- Like business.
- Oh. Okay.

1965
02:23:52,423 --> 02:23:56,359
We enjoy winning things,
but the primary purpose is your education.

1966
02:23:56,461 --> 02:23:58,622
What are some of your career goals,
may I ask?

1967
02:23:58,730 --> 02:24:03,099
I want to fall back to,
like, make - have my own business.

1968
02:24:03,201 --> 02:24:05,169
Like real estate.

1969
02:24:07,972 --> 02:24:10,270
This is where it all happens.

1970
02:24:10,375 --> 02:24:13,469
Beautiful place.
And it gets to rockin;

1971
02:24:13,578 --> 02:24:16,479
- You gonna try it on there?
- Yeah.

1972
02:24:16,581 --> 02:24:19,175
Those are about $ 120 apiece.

1973
02:24:22,286 --> 02:24:24,846
You need to be very careful
with this decision.

1974
02:24:24,956 --> 02:24:27,117
You know, if you come in and act right,
you're going out ofhere...

1975
02:24:27,225 --> 02:24:29,125
with two years
of your college finished...

1976
02:24:29,227 --> 02:24:32,890
a scholarship to a Division I university.

1977
02:24:32,997 --> 02:24:37,297
Exactly where you'd want to be-
on track to graduate in four years.

1978
02:25:03,828 --> 02:25:05,819
Mineral Area doesn't have dorms...

1979
02:25:05,930 --> 02:25:08,956
but it does have a basketball house.

1980
02:25:09,067 --> 02:25:12,662
All the ballplayers
on scholarship live here.

1981
02:25:12,770 --> 02:25:15,204
Get your ass up, nigga.

1982
02:25:19,277 --> 02:25:21,745
Of the seven blacks
in the entire school...

1983
02:25:21,846 --> 02:25:23,814
six live in this house.

1984
02:25:28,286 --> 02:25:32,655
You come in and look at this little house,
then after a while you get used to it.

1985
02:25:33,691 --> 02:25:35,591
Try to make a little home, you know.

1986
02:25:35,693 --> 02:25:37,627
home away from home anyway.

1987
02:25:40,832 --> 02:25:43,232
We hang around each other most of the time.

1988
02:25:43,334 --> 02:25:45,564
We know who to trust,
who not to trust.

1989
02:25:47,905 --> 02:25:51,136
I just want to go somewhere
where I'm gonna play.

1990
02:25:51,242 --> 02:25:53,210
I can get the grades.

1991
02:25:56,514 --> 02:25:58,482
I love basketball.

1992
02:26:08,793 --> 02:26:10,987
how many of your
players that leave there

1993
02:26:10,988 --> 02:26:13,230
and they end up going
to a four-year college?

1994
02:26:13,331 --> 02:26:15,231
- Thirty-one sophomores in a row.
- Really?

1995
02:26:15,333 --> 02:26:17,233
Every last one of'em he coached.

1996
02:26:17,335 --> 02:26:19,997
- hi. how you doing?
- hey. how you doing?

1997
02:26:20,104 --> 02:26:23,096
- Arthur Sr.
- Bo and Sheila have been separated.

1998
02:26:23,207 --> 02:26:27,576
She asked him to return today
over Arthur's objections.

1999
02:26:27,678 --> 02:26:29,942
I'll show you exactly
what the scholarship entails.

2000
02:26:30,047 --> 02:26:32,811
Is this a full scholarship
for the two years?

2001
02:26:32,917 --> 02:26:37,320
The reason I'm skeptical is because of
the promises that was made in the past.

2002
02:26:37,421 --> 02:26:39,045
From the time he comes down there

2003
02:26:39,046 --> 02:26:41,482
until he leaves, you will
not have a financial need.

2004
02:26:41,592 --> 02:26:44,356
Now, when you make this decision...

2005
02:26:44,462 --> 02:26:46,362
you got to live and die with it.

2006
02:26:46,464 --> 02:26:48,364
'Cause it's your decision to make.

2007
02:26:48,466 --> 02:26:52,527
Now, I'm here to support you if you -
if you done searched this whole thing.

2008
02:26:52,637 --> 02:26:54,537
And it's what you really want.

2009
02:26:54,639 --> 02:26:57,403
Not,you know,
'cause Mama said this or your dad-

2010
02:26:57,508 --> 02:27:00,534
Or because you're saving
Mama money, because if we have to...

2011
02:27:00,645 --> 02:27:02,909
we will still pay-
if you have to try to pay-

2012
02:27:03,014 --> 02:27:05,039
if we can put some-
I'm just sayin;

2013
02:27:05,149 --> 02:27:08,744
You - Understand what you're saying.
You want to save somebody money, but still -

2014
02:27:08,853 --> 02:27:10,946
But you have to still do
what is best from here.

2015
02:27:11,055 --> 02:27:14,491
But still we want the best for you -
even if you have to -

2016
02:27:14,592 --> 02:27:16,856
or we have to go in the hole, you know.

2017
02:27:16,961 --> 02:27:18,986
You understand what I'm
saying? I'm just saying.

2018
02:27:18,987 --> 02:27:20,556
But still, the decision is up to you.

2019
02:27:23,801 --> 02:27:26,395
So, what do you think?

2020
02:27:26,504 --> 02:27:28,472
Ah.

2021
02:27:30,675 --> 02:27:32,700
- Ready to sign it?
- Yeah.

2022
02:27:33,778 --> 02:27:36,770
- Yep.
- Let's do it up.

2023
02:27:42,286 --> 02:27:44,413
- What time is it?
- 1:56.

2024
02:27:44,522 --> 02:27:46,490
56.

2025
02:27:59,136 --> 02:28:00,865
Come on, Bo.
Whip it to him.

2026
02:28:00,972 --> 02:28:03,372
When I was 23, how old was he?

2027
02:28:03,474 --> 02:28:05,374
And I whupped him then.

2028
02:28:07,378 --> 02:28:09,039
Aw!

2029
02:28:09,146 --> 02:28:11,114
You want to see it rain?

2030
02:28:11,215 --> 02:28:14,116
Let it rain.!

2031
02:28:14,218 --> 02:28:16,652
- You want to see it rain?
- One more time.

2032
02:28:16,754 --> 02:28:18,949
Let it rain!

2033
02:28:19,056 --> 02:28:21,217
You want to see it rain?

2034
02:28:21,325 --> 02:28:23,623
Let it rain!

2035
02:28:23,728 --> 02:28:25,696
Oh!

2036
02:28:27,498 --> 02:28:30,126
Peoria Manual.
Remember what they did to you now.

2037
02:28:30,234 --> 02:28:32,327
Yeah. Do you know howard Nathan?

2038
02:28:32,436 --> 02:28:35,064
And I strung him up,
just like that.

2039
02:28:37,909 --> 02:28:41,970
Uh-oh. Like father, like son.
What's up with that?

2040
02:28:42,079 --> 02:28:44,809
You better stick to church music,
leave that basketball alone.

2041
02:28:50,288 --> 02:28:53,780
hell, no. You can't do that.

2042
02:28:53,891 --> 02:28:56,018
Foul! Foul!

2043
02:28:57,862 --> 02:28:59,762
Foul. Foul, foul, foul.

2044
02:28:59,864 --> 02:29:01,764
- That's 32.
- That's 34.

2045
02:29:01,866 --> 02:29:03,766
- 34!
- That didn't count 'cause he called "Bo. "

2046
02:29:03,868 --> 02:29:06,302
- That's 34!
- That's 32!

2047
02:29:06,404 --> 02:29:08,304
- he didn't hit nothing else.!
- I did!

2048
02:29:08,406 --> 02:29:10,931
- he didn't hit nothing else!
- It's 34-28, Bo.

2049
02:29:11,042 --> 02:29:12,942
- Bo's a sore loser.
- All right!

2050
02:29:13,044 --> 02:29:16,377
- No. I know how to count though.
- Ain't no con game. I'm older now.

2051
02:29:16,480 --> 02:29:18,573
- Yeah.
- Ain't no con game going on no more.

2052
02:29:18,683 --> 02:29:21,811
- No more. Ain't no more.
- The score is 32 to 28.

2053
02:29:21,919 --> 02:29:24,479
Now, you can play for 32 if you want to.

2054
02:29:24,588 --> 02:29:26,954
Game over with.
I can con too.

2055
02:29:27,058 --> 02:29:29,356
Losers quit. I'm ready to play.

2056
02:29:29,460 --> 02:29:31,291
Now,youse a coward if you don't-
Check ball.

2057
02:29:31,395 --> 02:29:33,522
- You're mad now.
- Check ball.

2058
02:29:33,631 --> 02:29:34,499
- Throw it over there.

2059
02:29:34,500 --> 02:29:36,828
- You ain't two years old.
You ain't gettin' no pacifier.

2060
02:29:36,934 --> 02:29:38,834
- Give me that.
- Yeah.

2061
02:29:38,936 --> 02:29:41,769
Your mama ain't here
to give you this ball. Let's go.

2062
02:29:41,872 --> 02:29:44,397
- Give me the rock.
- Let's make it rain. Make it rain.

2063
02:29:46,510 --> 02:29:48,978
Bang. Bang. Right there.

2064
02:29:49,080 --> 02:29:52,049
ha! Go sit down.
Go sit down.

2065
02:29:52,149 --> 02:29:54,481
Bo, it's raining.!

2066
02:29:54,585 --> 02:29:56,553
Bo, it's raining.

2067
02:29:56,654 --> 02:29:58,554
- It's raining, Bo!
- It's raining, Bo!

2068
02:29:58,656 --> 02:30:01,454
You're on punishment when you get home.
You're on punishment when you get home.

2069
02:30:01,559 --> 02:30:05,290
And you're on punishment
when you get home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

2070
02:30:06,731 --> 02:30:08,858
It's gonna rain on your head, Bo.

2071
02:30:14,205 --> 02:30:16,332
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen...

2072
02:30:16,440 --> 02:30:20,069
and welcome to St. Joseph's
Annual Basketball Awards Dinner.

2073
02:30:20,177 --> 02:30:22,941
We had a...

2074
02:30:23,047 --> 02:30:25,038
difficult year.

2075
02:30:25,149 --> 02:30:27,049
Most of you are aware of that.

2076
02:30:27,151 --> 02:30:28,479
When I first went to St. Joe's,

2077
02:30:28,480 --> 02:30:30,314
I really did sleep, eat
and drink basketball.

2078
02:30:30,421 --> 02:30:32,321
That was all I did.

2079
02:30:32,423 --> 02:30:36,553
But it became more of a job
than a sport to play.

2080
02:30:36,660 --> 02:30:39,595
Things here have not changed since-

2081
02:30:39,697 --> 02:30:44,634
You know, Coach Pingatore
just had these dreams in his head.

2082
02:30:46,637 --> 02:30:50,664
hejust wanted me to go
the same route he took Isiah.

2083
02:30:51,709 --> 02:30:54,542
The most steals.

2084
02:30:54,645 --> 02:30:59,605
he played as a freshman.
Not even Isiah was a four-year starter.

2085
02:30:59,717 --> 02:31:03,016
You know, basketball was just like-
he was possessed with it.

2086
02:31:03,120 --> 02:31:05,179
You know, it was his life.

2087
02:31:05,289 --> 02:31:07,883
And he wanted it to be
everybody else's life too.

2088
02:31:07,992 --> 02:31:10,222
All-conference in the SCC.

2089
02:31:10,327 --> 02:31:12,295
All-state in the Sun-Times.

2090
02:31:12,396 --> 02:31:15,422
A McDonald All-American nomination.

2091
02:31:15,533 --> 02:31:21,438
M. V.P., 1990-1991 season,
William Gates.

2092
02:31:40,558 --> 02:31:42,617
When I had some real problems...

2093
02:31:42,726 --> 02:31:45,160
I couldn't go to
none of them about it.

2094
02:31:47,331 --> 02:31:50,664
You know, I was having some problems
with Catherine's family and my family...

2095
02:31:50,768 --> 02:31:55,137
and I said, you know, "Coach Pingatore,
their family's been getting on me about...

2096
02:31:55,239 --> 02:31:58,333
you know, I'm not doing this,
and I'm not doing that. "

2097
02:31:58,442 --> 02:32:00,876
And the only thing
Coach Pingatore could say is...

2098
02:32:01,912 --> 02:32:03,812
"Write 'em off. "

2099
02:32:03,914 --> 02:32:05,403
That was all he told me.

2100
02:32:05,404 --> 02:32:08,442
And I was, like, "What
kind of advice is that?"

2101
02:32:12,690 --> 02:32:15,625
Well, how's it feel to be finishing?

2102
02:32:17,828 --> 02:32:20,262
Uh, I mean-

2103
02:32:22,099 --> 02:32:24,090
Now, don't say anything
you don't mean, William.

2104
02:32:24,201 --> 02:32:27,170
I mean, I'm serious, Coach.
I enjoyed my four years.

2105
02:32:27,271 --> 02:32:29,739
I mean, we had our run-ins, and, uh -

2106
02:32:29,840 --> 02:32:31,740
- Who had run-ins?
- Me and you.

2107
02:32:31,842 --> 02:32:32,444
- We did?

2108
02:32:32,445 --> 02:32:35,005
- Yeah. Like that time
you made me run 75 stairs.

2109
02:32:35,112 --> 02:32:37,080
- I never f-
- You never forgot that.

2110
02:32:37,181 --> 02:32:39,081
Never.

2111
02:32:39,183 --> 02:32:42,091
See,you should have been
happy and enthusiastic

2112
02:32:42,092 --> 02:32:43,745
about doing your punishment.

2113
02:32:43,854 --> 02:32:48,348
But someday
you're gonna learn that, uh...

2114
02:32:48,459 --> 02:32:50,723
everything that was done
was for your benefit.

2115
02:32:50,828 --> 02:32:53,773
So that you can come
back four years from now

2116
02:32:53,774 --> 02:32:55,697
and say, "Coach,you were right.

2117
02:32:55,799 --> 02:32:58,233
"Everything that happened
at St. Joe's helped me a lot...

2118
02:32:58,335 --> 02:33:00,303
and as a result I got a degree. '"

2119
02:33:00,404 --> 02:33:02,304
That's what I'm hoping for.

2120
02:33:02,406 --> 02:33:04,738
I'm going into communication...

2121
02:33:04,842 --> 02:33:08,903
so when you start asking for a donation,
I'll know the right way to turn you down.

2122
02:33:09,013 --> 02:33:11,948
I'm sure you'll never turn us down.

2123
02:33:12,049 --> 02:33:13,949
Ah.

2124
02:33:15,986 --> 02:33:20,753
I never really felt
that he bought into the system.

2125
02:33:20,858 --> 02:33:24,294
he was never convinced
what he was doing was the right thing to do.

2126
02:33:25,329 --> 02:33:28,594
But overall he had a good career-
not a great career.

2127
02:33:28,699 --> 02:33:30,599
It's never good-bye.

2128
02:33:30,701 --> 02:33:33,602
Could've been different
if the injury didn't occur.

2129
02:33:33,704 --> 02:33:35,797
But it did occur.

2130
02:33:35,906 --> 02:33:39,000
- And that was the big difference.
- I'm proud of what you did.

2131
02:33:39,109 --> 02:33:41,270
- Okay.
- I expect you to do a lot better.

2132
02:33:41,378 --> 02:33:43,278
I don't want this to be the-

2133
02:33:43,380 --> 02:33:45,348
- Yeah.
- You know, the highlight of your career.

2134
02:33:45,449 --> 02:33:48,145
You've got a lot of
bigger and better things to do.

2135
02:33:48,252 --> 02:33:50,652
I'll see you later.
Good luck.

2136
02:33:53,958 --> 02:33:55,926
Well...

2137
02:33:57,194 --> 02:34:00,322
another one walks out the door,
and another one comes in the door.

2138
02:34:00,431 --> 02:34:02,365
That's what it's all about.

2139
02:34:40,838 --> 02:34:42,806
It came through for me.

2140
02:34:42,906 --> 02:34:45,374
- Got the score I needed.
- All right.

2141
02:34:45,476 --> 02:34:47,376
And, hey...

2142
02:34:48,412 --> 02:34:50,312
I'm eligible.

2143
02:34:51,582 --> 02:34:54,173
You know, this is one
of the greatest feelings

2144
02:34:54,174 --> 02:34:55,882
in the world. That's about it.

2145
02:34:55,986 --> 02:34:57,886
I mean -

2146
02:34:59,757 --> 02:35:03,591
After five attempts,
William's composite score of 17.5...

2147
02:35:03,694 --> 02:35:05,594
is rounded up to 18...

2148
02:35:05,696 --> 02:35:09,427
and he can finally accept a scholarship
to play at Marquette.

2149
02:35:34,925 --> 02:35:37,485
I think my mom...

2150
02:35:37,594 --> 02:35:41,360
all through high school
really, really was proud of me.

2151
02:35:41,465 --> 02:35:44,332
She said, "Everybody's throwing
their dreams into you...

2152
02:35:44,435 --> 02:35:47,871
but you got to throw
your own dreams into yourself. '"

2153
02:35:56,814 --> 02:35:59,874
When I gave her the diploma
after the graduation...

2154
02:35:59,983 --> 02:36:04,511
she was, like,
"This is it, one of my proudest moments. '"

2155
02:36:17,901 --> 02:36:20,028
My baby graduated.

2156
02:36:24,441 --> 02:36:27,410
Curtis always wanted to go to Marquette...

2157
02:36:27,511 --> 02:36:30,412
and his grades weren't
good enough for him to go...

2158
02:36:30,514 --> 02:36:34,507
and now it's like
he got the grades,you know?

2159
02:36:36,687 --> 02:36:39,850
Excuse me, Curtis.
You gonna give anybody else a chance?

2160
02:36:39,957 --> 02:36:43,017
What two countries
are we competing with for world trade?

2161
02:36:43,127 --> 02:36:46,563
Before Arthur can graduate,
he must pass summer school.

2162
02:36:46,663 --> 02:36:49,894
And for the first time in three years,
Shannon isn't there with him.

2163
02:36:50,000 --> 02:36:51,968
The other country, of course, we said-

2164
02:36:52,069 --> 02:36:55,869
he thought he could sell drugs
and don't get caught,you know.

2165
02:36:55,973 --> 02:36:57,873
But he found out the hard way.

2166
02:36:57,975 --> 02:36:59,807
And I told him, while
he was doing all that -

2167
02:36:59,808 --> 02:37:01,240
I wasn't hanging with Shannon then.

2168
02:37:01,345 --> 02:37:04,012
I was like, man, "Shannon,
you should stop, man.

2169
02:37:04,013 --> 02:37:05,372
Stop doing that stuff. "

2170
02:37:08,819 --> 02:37:12,721
We always said we weren't
gonna never do no stufflike that.

2171
02:37:12,823 --> 02:37:16,725
We werejust gonna go on
and graduate and go on to college.

2172
02:37:16,827 --> 02:37:20,194
But,you know, he had to be the one.

2173
02:37:30,641 --> 02:37:34,771
One week before his graduation,
Arthur is robbed at gunpoint.

2174
02:37:35,813 --> 02:37:39,510
At first I thought he was gonna shoot me
because I didn't have no money.

2175
02:37:40,551 --> 02:37:44,078
'Cause he kept asking me, "You got -
You got some money. Where your wallet at?"

2176
02:37:44,188 --> 02:37:46,469
Be like, "What you driving
a car like this for?"

2177
02:37:46,470 --> 02:37:48,284
I was, like, "I ain't got no wallet. "

2178
02:37:51,428 --> 02:37:54,056
And then,you know,
he grabbed me and stuff,and I was-

2179
02:37:54,164 --> 02:37:58,533
and I was about to panic and stuff,
and I just calmed down.

2180
02:38:02,105 --> 02:38:05,541
I sit down
and had a long talk with him and his sister.

2181
02:38:05,642 --> 02:38:09,100
Someone pulled a pistol on her
right down the street from the house.

2182
02:38:10,214 --> 02:38:13,196
I said, "Do you all
understand what is going on

2183
02:38:13,197 --> 02:38:15,242
out here in these streets today?'"

2184
02:38:15,352 --> 02:38:19,789
Even with me, when I was out there -
you know, out there strung out -

2185
02:38:19,890 --> 02:38:23,621
you know, I looked for somebody
that seemed like they had something.

2186
02:38:25,229 --> 02:38:29,598
hmm. After this, I -

2187
02:38:29,700 --> 02:38:33,864
I - I'm ready.
I'm ready to leave.

2188
02:38:33,971 --> 02:38:35,871
'Cause there ain't no -

2189
02:38:35,973 --> 02:38:40,000
Everybody up here going to jail
or- or either in drugs.

2190
02:38:41,044 --> 02:38:43,012
Or dead.

2191
02:39:20,050 --> 02:39:22,018
James Davis.

2192
02:39:33,730 --> 02:39:36,255
Arthur Agee.

2193
02:39:38,435 --> 02:39:42,201
Please hold your applause
so everyone can hear.

2194
02:39:42,306 --> 02:39:44,274
Christine Bowman.

2195
02:39:46,777 --> 02:39:48,745
Erica Byrd.

2196
02:39:51,682 --> 02:39:53,843
Sandra Crockett.

2197
02:39:55,619 --> 02:40:00,113
I never thought he would
get to the place where he's at now.

2198
02:40:02,259 --> 02:40:07,322
Arthur's self-esteem
was really drained from St. Joseph's.

2199
02:40:07,431 --> 02:40:09,991
I said, "Well,you are somebody.

2200
02:40:10,100 --> 02:40:12,864
"No matter where you go,
it's what you have in your heart...

2201
02:40:12,970 --> 02:40:15,700
that you're gonna go somewhere. '"

2202
02:40:28,552 --> 02:40:31,112
Come on.
Move out of the way, boy.

2203
02:40:35,392 --> 02:40:37,158
Everybody out there, there's gonna be

2204
02:40:37,159 --> 02:40:39,453
a party tonight. There's
gonna be a party tonight.

2205
02:40:39,563 --> 02:40:41,463
You know it.

2206
02:40:41,565 --> 02:40:44,261
These flame-broiled burgers -

2207
02:41:14,665 --> 02:41:16,565
It's scary, man. I'm telling you.

2208
02:41:16,667 --> 02:41:19,135
I'm telling you the truth.
Scary generation, man.

2209
02:41:20,370 --> 02:41:22,618
- I thought you might
hit me in my head, fool.

2210
02:41:22,619 --> 02:41:24,101
- I didn't hit you in your head.

2211
02:41:24,207 --> 02:41:26,232
To my son.

2212
02:41:26,343 --> 02:41:29,835
I hope you pursue all your dreams
and your desires...

2213
02:41:29,946 --> 02:41:31,914
that you have within you.

2214
02:41:32,015 --> 02:41:34,279
I love you very much.

2215
02:41:34,384 --> 02:41:38,047
- Ooh, that is so nice.
- Whatever.

2216
02:41:38,155 --> 02:41:40,646
Oh, no.!

2217
02:41:59,576 --> 02:42:01,840
God, we thank you
for this day, Lord.

2218
02:42:01,945 --> 02:42:04,539
And we ask you to
go with junior, Lord.

2219
02:42:04,648 --> 02:42:08,311
And we thank you, Lord. Go with him
as he try to better his education, Lord.

2220
02:42:08,418 --> 02:42:11,046
And we thank you for him
for coming this far.

2221
02:42:11,154 --> 02:42:13,145
We came this far by faith, Lord.

2222
02:42:13,256 --> 02:42:15,952
And we ask you, Father,
when he get in college, Lord...

2223
02:42:16,059 --> 02:42:18,254
to keep him, Lord-
keep him protected.

2224
02:42:18,361 --> 02:42:20,261
We thank you for him,Jesus.

2225
02:42:20,363 --> 02:42:23,332
- In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
- Amen.

2226
02:42:23,433 --> 02:42:27,460
Oh,you can cry like a river, girl.

2227
02:42:27,571 --> 02:42:30,096
You're crying so bad,
I won't even make fun of you.

2228
02:42:36,413 --> 02:42:38,381
Oh, God.

2229
02:42:56,600 --> 02:42:59,068
- I'm gonna miss you.
- I'll miss you too.

2230
02:43:00,103 --> 02:43:02,128
I want you to be good, okay?

2231
02:43:02,239 --> 02:43:07,438
And don't, uh, get mixed up in
none of that old stuff that, uh, you know.

2232
02:43:07,544 --> 02:43:10,240
I done told you what to do.

2233
02:43:10,347 --> 02:43:13,646
Don't get no alcohol, no wine coolers.

2234
02:43:13,750 --> 02:43:16,344
None of that stuff.

2235
02:43:33,937 --> 02:43:35,905
Bye-bye.

2236
02:43:40,277 --> 02:43:44,270
I just hope he stay in there.
That's what worries me most.

2237
02:43:46,049 --> 02:43:49,815
Once he get in the door,
I want him to stay in there for four years.

2238
02:43:52,889 --> 02:43:55,084
Think he gonna make it?

2239
02:43:55,192 --> 02:43:57,160
You do?

2240
02:43:58,929 --> 02:44:01,397
I think he gonna make it.

2241
02:44:03,166 --> 02:44:05,134
Well, I hope so anyway.

2242
02:44:32,829 --> 02:44:36,993
When I was young- When I was little,
that's all I used to think about- the NBA.

2243
02:44:39,369 --> 02:44:41,701
If I set my mind, I can - I can go.

2244
02:44:41,805 --> 02:44:43,705
I can st - I can go.

2245
02:44:43,807 --> 02:44:46,139
Get in good college. I can go.

2246
02:44:47,244 --> 02:44:50,736
But if I don't, you know, I ain't gonna be
no drug dealer, you know...

2247
02:44:50,847 --> 02:44:53,748
cry about it,
come back and, you know...

2248
02:44:53,850 --> 02:44:57,115
stick up gas stations
or nothing like that, you know.

2249
02:44:57,220 --> 02:45:00,314
Probably go into comedian or architecture,
something like that.

2250
02:45:05,395 --> 02:45:10,162
You don't think that you'll have the kind
of tough times like your dad's been through?

2251
02:45:10,267 --> 02:45:12,963
No.

2252
02:45:13,069 --> 02:45:17,369
I can't say- I can't say that I will.
I can't say that I don't. I don't know.

2253
02:45:42,632 --> 02:45:44,425
Four years ago, that's all

2254
02:45:44,426 --> 02:45:47,331
I used to dream about
was playing in the NBA.

2255
02:45:47,437 --> 02:45:49,803
I don't really dream about it
like that anymore.

2256
02:45:50,840 --> 02:45:53,570
You know, even though...

2257
02:45:53,677 --> 02:45:56,612
I love playing basketball, but, you know...

2258
02:45:56,713 --> 02:45:59,443
I want to do other things
with my life too.

2259
02:45:59,549 --> 02:46:01,608
- Say, "hi, Daddy. '"
- hi, Daddy.

2260
02:46:01,718 --> 02:46:04,016
- "how you doing?'"
- how you doing?

2261
02:46:04,120 --> 02:46:06,020
- Say, "I love you. '"
- I love you.

2262
02:46:07,123 --> 02:46:11,423
If I had to stop playing basketball
right now, I think I'd still be happy.

2263
02:46:11,528 --> 02:46:14,361
- I think I would.
- Thank you, Daddy.

2264
02:46:14,464 --> 02:46:17,194
- Where'd Daddy get to?
- Uh, Marquette.

2265
02:46:17,300 --> 02:46:19,268
Marquette?

2266
02:46:21,304 --> 02:46:23,670
That's why when
somebody say,you know...

2267
02:46:23,773 --> 02:46:24,900
"When you get to the NBA,

2268
02:46:24,901 --> 02:46:26,833
don't forget about me,
'"and all that stuff...

2269
02:46:26,943 --> 02:46:29,249
I should say to them,
"Well, if I don't make it,

2270
02:46:29,250 --> 02:46:30,845
watch you don't forget about me. '"

2271
02:46:31,305 --> 02:46:37,577
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