1. And welcome to
the 38th annual NBA All-Star game...Copy !req
2. from Chicago Stadium.Copy !req
3. A standing-room-only crowd.Copy !req
4. A steal by Jordan.
He spun it away from the Mailman.Copy !req
5. Just needs a little time-out to reorganize.Copy !req
6. And the chances
of a West comeback are slipping away.Copy !req
7. Aguirre for three.Copy !req
8. I have never seen an All-Star game...Copy !req
9. that had such spectacular passing...Copy !req
10. and plays,
and thundering plays like this.Copy !req
11. They're beginning to hang, Billy.Copy !req
12. Ah, what a way to end this ball game.Copy !req
13. Right now, I wanna, you know,
play in the NBA...Copy !req
14. like anybody else would wanna be.Copy !req
15. That's who -
That's something...Copy !req
16. I dream and think
about all the time -Copy !req
17. playing in the NBA.Copy !req
18. He's just doing something
that he loves so much.Copy !req
19. He just love it so much.
I'm just happy for him.Copy !req
20. If somebody can understand
the way William play...Copy !req
21. that'll make me feel
a lot better.Copy !req
22. The way they should have
understood the way I played.Copy !req
23. This Chicagoan
is making his seventh All-Star appearance.Copy !req
24. From the Detroit Pistons, 6'1 "...Copy !req
25. Isaiah Thomas!Copy !req
26. When I get in the NBA...Copy !req
27. the first thing I'm gonna do...Copy !req
28. I'm gonna see my mama, buy her a house...Copy !req
29. I'm gonna go there and make sure
my sister and my brother's okay.Copy !req
30. If we were okay or not.Copy !req
31. Probably get my dad...Copy !req
32. a Cadillac Oldsmobile...Copy !req
33. so he can cruise in the games.Copy !req
34. Something real long.Copy !req
35. Dominique.! Ooh.!Copy !req
36. He dreams about it.Copy !req
37. He look at those
basketball commercials...Copy !req
38. where they be advertising these Nike shoes?Copy !req
39. He'll tell his little, small brother...Copy !req
40. "Joe, Joe, that's me."Copy !req
41. So the West leads.
Thomas trying to go the distance. Loses it.Copy !req
42. I don't even think about
it, if he don't make it.Copy !req
43. Just 'cause I'm so -Copy !req
44. I'm so, you know,
focused in on him making it.Copy !req
45. I just know he'll make it.Copy !req
46. I'm off to Central...Copy !req
47. and the Congress
Expressway-Copy !req
48. a park over there where there are
some pretty talented young men.Copy !req
49. Earl Smith works downtown
as an insurance executive.Copy !req
50. On weekends he's an unofficial talent scout
for several area high schools.Copy !req
51. This is what you call
"beating the bushes."Copy !req
52. This is the job
of most of your freshmen coaches...Copy !req
53. and guys like me who -
who played a little bit of the game...Copy !req
54. who love trying to help young people
on the road to success.Copy !req
55. It's in! It's in!Copy !req
56. Today Earl spots Arthur Agee,
who just graduated from grammar school.Copy !req
57. He's got the quickest first step
that I've seen in about five years.Copy !req
58. His first step.Copy !req
59. I will bet you a steak dinner
in four years you'll be hearing from him.Copy !req
60. I don't even know anything about him.Copy !req
61. Several days later,Copy !req
62. Earl takes Arthur and his family
on a recruiting visit...Copy !req
63. to the high school
where NBA star Isiah Thomas played.Copy !req
64. The visit will give
St. Joseph's coaches...Copy !req
65. a chance to see Arthur perform.Copy !req
66. Your role today, Arthur...Copy !req
67. is to impress the coaches.Copy !req
68. Try not to be too fancy.Copy !req
69. Take the open shot when you have it.Copy !req
70. Play good defense
and make good passes.Copy !req
71. The rest of it,
just play natural, you know.Copy !req
72. I'm hoping I'm gonna go to St. Joe
and play...Copy !req
73. but first I gotta -
I gotta get my books straight.Copy !req
74. And...Copy !req
75. hopefully come out
and impress the coaches.Copy !req
76. Is it kinda scary?Copy !req
77. Yes, it is.Copy !req
78. I've never been to a school
way out before...Copy !req
79. and I would be going to a school
with different kids, different races.Copy !req
80. You can look at the scenery,
new friends to meet.Copy !req
81. What if Isiah's there today?Copy !req
82. Well, if he be there...Copy !req
83. I'll be shocked...Copy !req
84. 'cause that'd be my first time
ever seeing him...Copy !req
85. Up close, you know, real life.Copy !req
86. Basketball has to be second
to your academics.Copy !req
87. If you don't get your grades,
you're not gonna play.Copy !req
88. If you work hard at the grades,
and if you work hard at basketball...Copy !req
89. then I would be able to help you
as far as going to college.Copy !req
90. And I guarantee this.Copy !req
91. I can't promise you where you're gonna go
and if you're gonna be a star...Copy !req
92. but I guarantee that I would help you
get into the school...Copy !req
93. that would be best for you.Copy !req
94. I'm making a commitment to you...Copy !req
95. if you make a commitment
to being part of this kind of a program.Copy !req
96. Out of all of the kids
at the St. Joseph Basketball Camp...Copy !req
97. there are a few like Arthur
that Coach Pingatore is recruiting.Copy !req
98. It was like million of guys
trying to be better than the other...Copy !req
99. but, to me,
I was better than all of them...Copy !req
100. except Isiah.Copy !req
101. It gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you a graduate of St. Joe's...Copy !req
102. high school all-American...Copy !req
103. All-American from Indiana University...Copy !req
104. five-time NBA All-Star...Copy !req
105. Isiah Thomas.Copy !req
106. Hello. How are you?Copy !req
107. In everybody's neighborhood,
there's a guy who can really play.Copy !req
108. He can shoot the lights out.Copy !req
109. Every time down the court -
Swish, swish, swish!Copy !req
110. Then he goes to St. Joseph high School...Copy !req
111. and the guy gets cut.Copy !req
112. You say, "But Tom was real good.
Why did he get cut?'"Copy !req
113. See, Tom didn't learn
the fundamentals of team basketball...Copy !req
114. which is what you're learning
how to play.Copy !req
115. He told my daddy
that he knew I could play...Copy !req
116. so he just had to play me hard.Copy !req
117. I can see the playground in him.
I can see talent.Copy !req
118. But I don't see the confidence.Copy !req
119. With Isiah, I just knew
he was gonna be a great one.Copy !req
120. He had that total combination
of personality, confidence, talent...Copy !req
121. intelligence.Copy !req
122. I think I see it in one kid
that's coming here.Copy !req
123. He flows with a smoothness
and confidence...Copy !req
124. and strength...Copy !req
125. that you don't see in every kid.Copy !req
126. But he could become a great player.Copy !req
127. You gotta take a shot.
Always work it. You can't block it.Copy !req
128. Ohh.!Copy !req
129. I just bang him and bruise him.Copy !req
130. I'm trying to let him know right now
you gonna get hit, get knocked down...Copy !req
131. you gonna get banged around,
so you better get used to it now.Copy !req
132. Stop it. One-hand hook.Copy !req
133. All these basketball dreams I had,
they gone.Copy !req
134. All I see -All my dreams in him now.Copy !req
135. I want him to make it so bad,
I don't know what to do.Copy !req
136. They want to play basketball
and stuff, that was always okay.Copy !req
137. But I was gonna make sure all of 'em
got through high school.Copy !req
138. A high school diploma
was very important to me.Copy !req
139. My mother,
she was like mother and father to me.Copy !req
140. She don't want me really
hanging around over here that much...Copy !req
141. 'cause of the gangs.Copy !req
142. I feel if I go to St. Joseph...Copy !req
143. I'll at least get a good chance
to go to a good college.Copy !req
144. That would be good for me.Copy !req
145. That was my first son.Copy !req
146. I said, "That's Daddy's man, '"
so we just started calling him "Man. '"Copy !req
147. Get around it!Copy !req
148. I could have been a good college player.Copy !req
149. Most likely
I would have made it to the pros.Copy !req
150. But, you know, once I had my son...Copy !req
151. I knew then something good
was gonna come out of it.Copy !req
152. I think the talent gonna be passed on.Copy !req
153. He told me, "I'm so scared of growing up."
I said, "Why?"Copy !req
154. he said a grown-up has so many problems.
"I got so many things on my mind."Copy !req
155. I just want Arthur to have more...Copy !req
156. you know,
have a better life than what I had.Copy !req
157. I don't want him experiencing
bad things that I went through in life.Copy !req
158. Austin Boulevard
will be the next stop. Austin is next.Copy !req
159. Like Isiah Thomas before them...Copy !req
160. both Arthur and William make
a three-hour round trip each day...Copy !req
161. between the city and St. Joseph's.Copy !req
162. That was strange for me
going out to a far-out school.Copy !req
163. I saw a rug, flowers, clean hallways...Copy !req
164. things that I didn't see
in an ordinary school.Copy !req
165. Gotta move! Gotta move!Copy !req
166. Come on.Copy !req
167. - Three, four, five or 10?
- Ten.Copy !req
168. You got it. Three, four, five?Copy !req
169. Arthur wins the starting
point-guard position on the freshmen team.Copy !req
170. Agee, I want you to find
in that warm-up number two.Copy !req
171. Brown, number three.Copy !req
172. Ettmeyer, four.Copy !req
173. Hey, Arthur, you know
if you miss free throws...Copy !req
174. they count 'em up,
and you have to pay 15 cents.Copy !req
175. Then if you don't pay
it, they gonna make youCopy !req
176. run 50 laps, and still
you have to pay the money.Copy !req
177. - You still gotta pay the money?
- That's way out.Copy !req
178. When Arthur first started at St.
Joseph's...Copy !req
179. he was a good kid,
from what we saw...Copy !req
180. but he was very immature.Copy !req
181. He might have been a little more
disruptive, speaking out...Copy !req
182. getting into childish things.Copy !req
183. He wasn't used to the discipline
and the control.Copy !req
184. He reverted back to, maybe,
his environment, where he came from.Copy !req
185. I just never been around
a lot of white people and...Copy !req
186. it was different, because at a black school
I could associate with the people.Copy !req
187. They talk the way I talk.Copy !req
188. It was a little hard,
but I can adjust to it.Copy !req
189. You can see there was talent there.Copy !req
190. We kept saying up in the stands,
"Get the ball to Arthur...Copy !req
191. because he's going to do it for you. '"Copy !req
192. And sure enough, they gave him the ball
with seconds on the clock.Copy !req
193. I noticed a change immediately
after he started going out there.Copy !req
194. To see your child mature, you say,
"Oh, maybe this is good for him."Copy !req
195. William begins
his freshman season on St. Joe's varsity...Copy !req
196. the top-ranked squad in the state.Copy !req
197. He's already received several letters...Copy !req
198. from Division I schools -Copy !req
199. Marquette and Rice and Creighton,
Illinois State...Copy !req
200. to name a few.Copy !req
201. Beat him! Beat him! Beat him!
Keep back!Copy !req
202. Hold it up! hold it up!
You're killing us!Copy !req
203. Why did he get to the ball before you?Copy !req
204. He asks me, do I wanna be
a great player? And I keep saying yeah.Copy !req
205. He said, "For four years,
I'm gonna be on you every day."Copy !req
206. So he said, "You might as well
get used to it now."Copy !req
207. hard left. No, no. Go hard left.Copy !req
208. Right, I know you can do it.
Left, you can't. All right? Go hard.Copy !req
209. Not bad. Do it again.Copy !req
210. If you look at Matthew,
and again he's saying...Copy !req
211. at the time the kingdom of heaven
will be like this.Copy !req
212. This is how Matthew's gonna use Jesus.
This is how he's gonna start it out.Copy !req
213. What this is saying
is you have to take the faith-Copy !req
214. When I first came out here,
it was, like, "I wanna go home.Copy !req
215. Is this really the right school for me?'"Copy !req
216. But every little thing you do
that go against their rule...Copy !req
217. you have detention.Copy !req
218. And they'll suspend you quick
at the school too.Copy !req
219. They'll suspend you quick.Copy !req
220. The kids that are willing to do it...Copy !req
221. are gonna take something awayCopy !req
222. that will help them for
the rest of their life.Copy !req
223. The kids that are not willing to do it...Copy !req
224. for whatever reason, uh...Copy !req
225. are not gonna be very successful
as far as here.Copy !req
226. The civil rights movement
started up in the '50s.Copy !req
227. When William first entered St. Joe's...Copy !req
228. tests revealed he was working
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.Copy !req
229. I could see that he had the potential...Copy !req
230. but because he was shy, it seemed as though
no one was trying to reach him.Copy !req
231. Sister Marilyn told me,
"You have to be one good ballplayer...Copy !req
232. to get in this school with these grades. '"Copy !req
233. - What war beginning in the '60s?
- Vietnam.Copy !req
234. At the end of the year,
he had gone four grades above...Copy !req
235. just in the way he listened and learned.Copy !req
236. Back in grammar school...Copy !req
237. academics really didn't matter
too much to me at all.Copy !req
238. It was playing ball for the team-
really, we was the standouts in the school.Copy !req
239. If you showed up in class,
that was good enough for them.Copy !req
240. I was just going to school for the girls.Copy !req
241. Trip out with your friends...Copy !req
242. get out, go play some more basketball.Copy !req
243. That was basically it.Copy !req
244. Arthur also entered St. Joe's
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.Copy !req
245. Nobody in their right mind
is crazy about school.Copy !req
246. If the president brought
up a thing right nowCopy !req
247. that say, "Close all schools"...Copy !req
248. do you think any kids would be trying
to go out there, stand on a picket line...Copy !req
249. and wave and get billboards...Copy !req
250. saying, "Reopen schools"?Copy !req
251. Nice and tall, guys.
Now, don't look at the flash.Copy !req
252. Arthur was in
the lower group of the general program.Copy !req
253. Okay, fellas. Good.Copy !req
254. At the end of the year,
he was still in the lower group.Copy !req
255. One, two, three.!Copy !req
256. For Arthur, the season is over.Copy !req
257. His freshman team finished second
in the conference.Copy !req
258. William's varsity is rolling
through the play-offs.Copy !req
259. Against Proviso East,
William plays his best game yet.Copy !req
260. And the Chargers move a step closer to
going downstate to compete for the title.Copy !req
261. St. Joe's made it downstate
five of the last six years.Copy !req
262. The one thing we haven't done
is win a state tournament.Copy !req
263. Man, that'd be a big thing
if I could go downstate as a freshman.Copy !req
264. Isiah was good enough
to start on the varsity as a freshman.Copy !req
265. I didn't do it because I was worried
about bringing him along too rapidly.Copy !req
266. I think by not doing it,
it cost us a state championship.Copy !req
267. In the sectional finals,
Fenwick challenges St. Joe's title hopes.Copy !req
268. But in the second quarter,
William steps up.Copy !req
269. With his brother Curtis looking on...Copy !req
270. William scores 16 points to lead
the Chargers to the sectional title.Copy !req
271. From Chicago, it's The
Sports Writers On TV.Copy !req
272. I think I may have seen
the next Isiah Thomas.Copy !req
273. St. Joe of Westchester
has a kid named William Gates...Copy !req
274. who is starting as a freshman.Copy !req
275. Remember, you heard it first
from Bill Gleason.Copy !req
276. Put it in your memory banks,
ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
277. William Gates.Copy !req
278. In the supersectionals,
St. Joe's meets DeSalles...Copy !req
279. to decide who will go downstate.Copy !req
280. William plays more like
an intimidated freshmanCopy !req
281. than a freshman sensation.Copy !req
282. Six-nine senior all-American
Eric Anderson dominates St. Joe's.Copy !req
283. But in the third quarter,
William takes over again.Copy !req
284. He fires over Anderson
and is fouled.Copy !req
285. William's 13 points
in the second half...Copy !req
286. pull the Chargers to within four.Copy !req
287. With less than two minutes to play,
it's a must-score.Copy !req
288. St. Joe's jump shot falls short.Copy !req
289. Eric Anderson.!Copy !req
290. Despite the loss,
William's gutty performance...Copy !req
291. bodes well for next year.Copy !req
292. There will be an announcementCopy !req
293. on ticket sales immediately
following the game.Copy !req
294. Rewriting 7,300 times 10...Copy !req
295. to the negative fifth
in scientific notation.Copy !req
296. Who wants that problem?Copy !req
297. - I do.
- Go ahead, William.Copy !req
298. - 7.3...
- 7.3...Copy !req
299. - times 10 to the third.
- Times 10 to the third times-Copy !req
300. - 10 to the negative second.
- Is that good!Copy !req
301. Very good.Copy !req
302. When I went out there,
I was very intimidated...Copy !req
303. 'cause I just knew that everybody out there
was just smarter than me.Copy !req
304. As the year went on...Copy !req
305. and I was making
an "A'"and "B'"honor roll...Copy !req
306. I just felt like,
"hey, I'm just as good as them. '"Copy !req
307. Now what you have to identify-Copy !req
308. Both William and Arthur
have partial scholarships from St. Joe's.Copy !req
309. The rest of William's tuition
is paid for by Cycle...Copy !req
310. a Cabrini Green organization.Copy !req
311. But Cycle can't cover
this year's tuition increase.Copy !req
312. I was called on
by Brother Edwin Duprais.Copy !req
313. He was trying to raise money
to help kids...Copy !req
314. that couldn't otherwise go
to those kind of schools.Copy !req
315. It really touched a soft
spot in my heart...Copy !req
316. and so I decided that my husband and I
would participate on a personal basis.Copy !req
317. William was selected as the kid...Copy !req
318. that was able to go to school,
based on our contribution.Copy !req
319. - Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.Copy !req
320. You played a great game. I want you to
meet our friends Liz Duncan, Tom Paris.Copy !req
321. - Nice game.
- William Gates.Copy !req
322. With continuing support
from Patricia Wier...Copy !req
323. William is assured
that his entire education at St. Joe's...Copy !req
324. will be free.Copy !req
325. Arthur's family is paying
for half of his tuition...Copy !req
326. and the increase comes
at an especially bad time.Copy !req
327. Worked for Sara Lee, got laid off.Copy !req
328. Uh, worked for Scala's Meat Packing.
Got laid off there. You know.Copy !req
329. You look around your house,
you see your food getting low. Okay?Copy !req
330. And you got your bills due here,
your bills due there.Copy !req
331. I got called down to the office.Copy !req
332. Brother Leo wanted to talk to me.Copy !req
333. He was telling me about how much,
certain money my mama had to pay...Copy !req
334. for me to stay in school.Copy !req
335. They say if she don't have it by this time,
you gotta stay out till she pay it.Copy !req
336. I was staying out, like,
two and three weeks and stuff.Copy !req
337. By the end of the freshman year...Copy !req
338. whatever balance there was for
tuition was never taken care of.Copy !req
339. Consequently,
going into the sophomore year...Copy !req
340. we had the balance
plus the new tuition...Copy !req
341. so that it was going to continue
to become a problem.Copy !req
342. Whatever scout that they have come out
to these different neighborhoods...Copy !req
343. and scout out
these little basketball players...Copy !req
344. and get 'em to come to their school
and offer them these scholarships.Copy !req
345. Then once they get out there,
the story is totally different.Copy !req
346. I was under the impression
that Arthur wouldCopy !req
347. have help as far as
getting to school.Copy !req
348. Arthur would have help
in getting his books.Copy !req
349. But, see, none of that occur.Copy !req
350. Finally, with the Agees
owing $ 1,500 in back payments...Copy !req
351. St. Joseph's forced Arthur
to leave the school.Copy !req
352. I thought Pingatore and them
would help me out, but -Copy !req
353. You have to draw the line
because, as I said...Copy !req
354. tuition is something that,
as a school, we depend on...Copy !req
355. for 90%% of our revenue.Copy !req
356. I guess he thought I wasn't gonna be
that big of a ballplayer.Copy !req
357. So why would he just waste
some money on me staying there?Copy !req
358. Or, you know, he thought
I wasn't gonna grow.Copy !req
359. He kept on saying,
"When are you gonna grow?"Copy !req
360. Well, I don't know.Copy !req
361. If I had known that all of this
was gonna lead to this...Copy !req
362. Arthur would have never went
to St. Joseph's.Copy !req
363. I mean, if I had known that he was gonna
have to go through this type of pain...Copy !req
364. and myself-the anguish of it...Copy !req
365. and then to put him out
in the middle of a school year-Copy !req
366. I.D.'s, ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
367. All right. Okay, okay. All right.Copy !req
368. Can't take no beepers in here.Copy !req
369. Give me my beeper, man.Copy !req
370. Mr. Wade, I need to see you
at the front door.Copy !req
371. Now where you gonna go?
Your friend go to jail. No beepers in here.Copy !req
372. Don't make no scene.Copy !req
373. Arthur is accepted
at the public high school near his home.Copy !req
374. He's been out of school for two months
and lost a whole semester's credit.Copy !req
375. Here you have a youngster caughtCopy !req
376. in the middle of two
separate school systems.Copy !req
377. Had he stayed at St. Joseph's...Copy !req
378. he would have been able to receive
credit for that first semester.Copy !req
379. Doesn't seem fair,
but then that's the system.Copy !req
380. If he was going out there
and he was playingCopy !req
381. like they had predicted
him to play...Copy !req
382. he wouldn't be at Marshall.Copy !req
383. Economics wouldn't have had anything
to do with him not being at St. Joe's.Copy !req
384. Somebody would have made some kind ofCopy !req
385. arrangement, and the kid
would've still been there.Copy !req
386. He's not making it like they thought he was
gonna make it on the basketball court...Copy !req
387. so he's not there, simple as that.Copy !req
388. It doesn't take no brilliant person
to figure that out.Copy !req
389. It's mid-season
when Arthur joins the sophomore team.Copy !req
390. He was so depressed and devastated,
he just closed himself off in the room.Copy !req
391. I would go in there and tell him
every day, "hey, things will look up. '"Copy !req
392. Coming off the bench,
Arthur wears number 11...Copy !req
393. Isiah Thomas's number.Copy !req
394. What kind of techniques were being used...Copy !req
395. to take away the freedoms
that had been earned?Copy !req
396. - Jeannetta.
- Poll tax.Copy !req
397. Poll tax. Okay, Arthur,
what other techniques were used...Copy !req
398. to keep black Americans from voting?Copy !req
399. Um-Copy !req
400. You could almost forget
about his being there.Copy !req
401. That's how quiet he really was.Copy !req
402. I think the transition
had something to do with it.Copy !req
403. In comparing
Marshall high School to St. Joseph...Copy !req
404. I don't think
that there is any comparison.Copy !req
405. People can afford
to send their children there.Copy !req
406. They can afford to put money
into the school.Copy !req
407. Once they walk in those doors...Copy !req
408. they walk in there to get that diploma
and to go on to college.Copy !req
409. Whereas our students,
if they get out of high school...Copy !req
410. a lot of them,
it's an accomplishment.Copy !req
411. Trinomial. What's this gonna be?
Both of these are what?Copy !req
412. If he wanna go back next year...Copy !req
413. he gonna go back, if I have to beg.Copy !req
414. Because, uh, I wanna help him
with his little dream.Copy !req
415. Arthur's mother, Sheila,
has lost her minimum-wage job...Copy !req
416. as a nurse's assistant...Copy !req
417. because of chronic back pain.Copy !req
418. It's just a real hard area
to live in, period.Copy !req
419. And as far as raising kids -Copy !req
420. kids don't even have a playground
or play area...Copy !req
421. anything constructive to do
in the neighborhood.Copy !req
422. But you see why half of them
become gangbangers, you know.Copy !req
423. Because it's nothing constructive
in the neighborhood for 'em.Copy !req
424. So now it's, like, you more or less
got to keep your kids close to you...Copy !req
425. and watch 'em at all times.Copy !req
426. In June, after 20 years of marriage...Copy !req
427. Arthur's dad leaves the family.Copy !req
428. Big logjam into the lane.
Jordan's 15-footer good from out front.Copy !req
429. Make sure you look at
how many shots have been taken.Copy !req
430. Jordan might shoot, uh, 15 out of 40.Copy !req
431. Fifteen out of 40?Copy !req
432. I'm just saying, for instance.
He's done it.Copy !req
433. But see, if you do that,
you're gonna know about it.Copy !req
434. Ooh.Copy !req
435. Curtis tells William,
"The most important thing...Copy !req
436. is getting the ball in the basket. '"Copy !req
437. Curtis said the boy's good.Copy !req
438. He say he's real good, but he don't listen.Copy !req
439. He said if he listen to him,
he'd be better.Copy !req
440. He's always telling me,
you should do this and you should do that.Copy !req
441. Seems like everybody I know
is my coach.Copy !req
442. I know a whole lot about basketball.Copy !req
443. Now it's Isiah Thomas.Copy !req
444. I guess, in so many words,
I'm a pro at that in my mind.Copy !req
445. The Trojans were led on the
court all season by 6'2'"sophomore guard...Copy !req
446. Curtis Gates.Copy !req
447. When he went to college,
and Michael Jordan first came to the NBA...Copy !req
448. they would, you know, sit around and argue
over him-who could play the best.Copy !req
449. Curtis was named Player
of the Decade at Colby Junior College...Copy !req
450. but he also developed a reputation
for being uncoachable.Copy !req
451. Curtis's idea of being real good is...Copy !req
452. you don't follow the rules,
you do what you wanna do.Copy !req
453. Curtis finally signed
at the University of Central Florida...Copy !req
454. but he didn't get along with the coach
and rarely played.Copy !req
455. Even if he didn't play ball...Copy !req
456. it was a nice university.Copy !req
457. He could have finished school.Copy !req
458. But he couldn't handle it.Copy !req
459. Security. Can I help you?Copy !req
460. I'm used to everybody
in the neighborhood loving me...Copy !req
461. and knowing how good I can play.Copy !req
462. It just seemed like people looked upCopy !req
463. to Curtis Gates when
it came to basketball...Copy !req
464. but now...Copy !req
465. I'm just a regular old guy
on the street now.Copy !req
466. Welcome to the prep game of the week...Copy !req
467. in the Class AA Sectional Final.Copy !req
468. You got the guru,
the legend, in Gene Pingatore.Copy !req
469. Gates.! Good.!Copy !req
470. Boy, Gates is on fire.Copy !req
471. William Gates is one
of the premier sophomores.Copy !req
472. William scores
17 points in the first half...Copy !req
473. as the Chargers look to return
to the state finals.Copy !req
474. Gates.Copy !req
475. Good.!Copy !req
476. He is a thoroughbred of a player.Copy !req
477. Can they get it done here now?Copy !req
478. In the second half, Gordon Tech
turns to their own sophomore star.Copy !req
479. Kleinschmidt
drives the middle, puts it up. Good.!Copy !req
480. Gordon Tech hangs on to a slender
lead in the waning seconds of the game.Copy !req
481. Three-point lead with 12 seconds left.Copy !req
482. My guy's William Gates.Copy !req
483. I'd like to see him get it, just get to go
one-on-one and pull up and ice it.Copy !req
484. Oh, boy. This is it.Copy !req
485. - Gates is the man with the ball.
- That's the one I would want.Copy !req
486. He's gonna pull up from way out.
Off the front of the rim.!Copy !req
487. Kleinschmidt hits it around.
Three seconds left.Copy !req
488. Cunningham goes out. It's up.!Copy !req
489. No good.! Gordon Tech wins.!Copy !req
490. Congratulations
to the Gordon Tech Rams.Copy !req
491. They're on a joyride,
one game now from Champaign.Copy !req
492. Come on.Copy !req
493. Arthur's season ended well,
and he has high hopes...Copy !req
494. to play for the varsity next year.Copy !req
495. Whoo! Lots of iron on that shit.Copy !req
496. Arthur's dad shows up.Copy !req
497. Man got big hands.Copy !req
498. These days, Arthur rarely sees him.Copy !req
499. - Watch this. Watch this dunk.
- Joe, I'm gonna go after you, okay?Copy !req
500. Watch this.Copy !req
501. You got old legs, Dad.Copy !req
502. Old legs.Copy !req
503. Hey, man.
I'll see you later on, okay?Copy !req
504. Bye.Copy !req
505. Increasingly, this playground court...Copy !req
506. has become a place
to buy and sell drugs.Copy !req
507. "Dear Mother...Copy !req
508. "I hope when Mother's Day comes...Copy !req
509. "you will light up the sky
with a big smile.Copy !req
510. "You, Mother,
are the only one in the world...Copy !req
511. "who can provide
and take care of me.Copy !req
512. "You are the one
that makes our family work.Copy !req
513. "You are the one that I will miss so much
when I go away to college.Copy !req
514. "No one can replace you ever.Copy !req
515. Love always, Man."Copy !req
516. Mother's Day, 1989.Copy !req
517. I said to him,
"What are you gonna do this summer?'"Copy !req
518. he said, well, he didn't know.Copy !req
519. So I said, "Well, if you need a job...Copy !req
520. let me know, and I'll see
if I can help you."Copy !req
521. We had a job that didn't require
a lot of previous training...Copy !req
522. so we hired him.Copy !req
523. I messed up so bad on my first day
'cause I wanted to do everything right.Copy !req
524. Just messed up everything.Copy !req
525. Puttin' tapes in the wrong numbers...Copy !req
526. all sorts of stuff.Copy !req
527. But I just pushed myself
to come out here...Copy !req
528. because I know, in the long run,
it's gonna be good for myself...Copy !req
529. and for my family.Copy !req
530. I give my mother $50
out of my checks.Copy !req
531. All she done for me, I
don't think there everCopy !req
532. be enough that I can
get to pay her back.Copy !req
533. Unless I make pro.
Then I'm pretty sure I can pay her back.Copy !req
534. I drew on these.
Look at my name.Copy !req
535. Tuss.Copy !req
536. I had heard that his
nickname used to beCopy !req
537. Tuss, so I just started
calling myself Tuss.Copy !req
538. Say "Tuss. '"Copy !req
539. You know, I say,
"Man, you may not make it to the NBA. '"Copy !req
540. he said, "Don't keep on
telling me things like that.Copy !req
541. That's just like showing me
you don't have any trust in what I do."Copy !req
542. I said, "I do, but don't just keep
putting everything into this."Copy !req
543. he said, "Ain't nobody gonna
take my dream away from me.Copy !req
544. That's what I wanna be,
and that's what I'm gonna do."Copy !req
545. Go first.Copy !req
546. I say, "hey, it's your dream.
What can we do?'"Copy !req
547. Yeah!Copy !req
548. "Dear William, Georgetown UniversityCopy !req
549. basketball staff is very
interested in you. '"Copy !req
550. "We are going to kick off the season
with a midnight madness celebration."Copy !req
551. Bobby Knight called.Copy !req
552. Michigan State -
boy, do they ever call.Copy !req
553. "Will be on national television."Copy !req
554. Any school you name.Copy !req
555. "Dear William, there's gold
at the end of the rainbow.Copy !req
556. $500 in there for you too."Copy !req
557. Did you see Isiah play the other night?Copy !req
558. Yeah, I caught the end of it.Copy !req
559. - how'd you like it?
- He played pretty good.Copy !req
560. The whole school
see me as being a Isiah Thomas.Copy !req
561. I'm trying to build my own identity.Copy !req
562. When I leave, they're gonna be, like,
"You're gonna be the next William Gates. '"Copy !req
563. The St. Joseph Chargers
are strictly man-to-man.Copy !req
564. - Gene Pingatore believes in that system.
- Watch Isiah come.Copy !req
565. - Going down the middle, throws it up.
- What did he do?Copy !req
566. - he took the charge.
- He took the charge.Copy !req
567. Something we have to
get you to do, right?Copy !req
568. Yeah.Copy !req
569. Everything he does
is what a coach is looking for.Copy !req
570. You listening?Copy !req
571. Out to Clark.
This is Thomas with the ball again.Copy !req
572. What an eye.!Copy !req
573. You're actually a better shooter
than Isiah from the outside.Copy !req
574. True.Copy !req
575. That's heads-up ba -
Oh! Thomas! What a move.Copy !req
576. That means you have
a lot of responsibility, William.Copy !req
577. Can you handle it?Copy !req
578. I hope so.
I'm ready to go downstate.Copy !req
579. - You wanna go downstate?
- Yeah.Copy !req
580. You gotta do something about it.
You have two years to get us down there.Copy !req
581. It's going to be all on your head.Copy !req
582. Isiah Thomas has just hit his 20th point.Copy !req
583. Go.!Copy !req
584. Hold up.! William.Copy !req
585. The man playing defense
dropped way off here.Copy !req
586. Now, who would you rather
have shoot the ball?Copy !req
587. Stras shoot the ball there,
or you stop in here and shootin' the ball?Copy !req
588. - Me.
- Well, shoot it!Copy !req
589. William practices todayCopy !req
590. having just recovered
from a slight knee injury.Copy !req
591. Come on. Let's go.
You're playing soft.Copy !req
592. William? Does it bother you?Copy !req
593. Don't be afraid though.
Don't favor it.Copy !req
594. Tempo.! Tempo.!Copy !req
595. Hold it. That's bullshit!Copy !req
596. You didn't jump to the ball
and deny the man!Copy !req
597. Go!Copy !req
598. That's still one.Copy !req
599. Nope. It's still one.Copy !req
600. We'll stay here all day
until you get a 10-seconder.Copy !req
601. William, you gotta take it easy.Copy !req
602. Go!Copy !req
603. Go!Copy !req
604. Go.Copy !req
605. Now we start all over.Copy !req
606. You people just refuse to work.Copy !req
607. You don't know what it is
to be intense!Copy !req
608. And if you don't have it,
you're gonna be crap for this team.!Copy !req
609. Give me a good reason why I should
keep you on this team, Corey.Copy !req
610. How 'bout you, Reed?
Give me a good reason.Copy !req
611. What do you think, William?Copy !req
612. I mean, how many of these people
work hard?Copy !req
613. - Not too many.
- Not too many.Copy !req
614. Wanna stay home
when the state tournament comes?Copy !req
615. All right. Go on in.Copy !req
616. The next day in practice,
William reinjures his knee.Copy !req
617. You, most likely,
have at least torn this cartilage...Copy !req
618. the inside cartilage of your knee.Copy !req
619. And you may have
a ligament tear in your knee, okay?Copy !req
620. If the ligament is torn, William,
you would miss this year...Copy !req
621. entirely.Copy !req
622. This is a lot to happen to you
at an early age. A lot.Copy !req
623. I think, if all goes well...Copy !req
624. you'll be able to come back.Copy !req
625. Everything was just going great.Copy !req
626. Now this.Copy !req
627. All you guys can't get large.Copy !req
628. - Somebody accidentally-
- What's up, man?Copy !req
629. Somebody gotta wear medium. You little
skinny guys wanna get in a large.Copy !req
630. What the other guys gonna put on?Copy !req
631. Watch that boy.
He'll steal your drawers.Copy !req
632. Junior year, Arthur makes varsity
for the Marshall Commandos.Copy !req
633. This is the year, right?Copy !req
634. This is it.
All righty.Copy !req
635. Not too bad.Copy !req
636. Fine.Copy !req
637. Back home,
the family's troubles have worsened.Copy !req
638. Now I'm on welfare...Copy !req
639. that I wasn't on then.Copy !req
640. And trying to live month-to-month
on something like that is very hard.Copy !req
641. You have three growing kids
that need this...Copy !req
642. and you have bills to pay...Copy !req
643. and it's just not enough
to make ends meet.Copy !req
644. Man.! Sweetie, is Man in there?Copy !req
645. I was never raised on welfare.Copy !req
646. My mother and father both worked.Copy !req
647. We was cut off for three months.Copy !req
648. We was cut off aid complete
with no income.Copy !req
649. So, therefore,
do you know what happened?Copy !req
650. Our lights were cut off.
Our gas was cut off.Copy !req
651. And we were sittin' in the dark.Copy !req
652. They had cut me off because
I failed to meet an appointment.Copy !req
653. It hurt everybody.
It changed everybody's attitude.Copy !req
654. That you can have something today
and it's gone tomorrow.Copy !req
655. So you know what the system
is saying to me?Copy !req
656. Do you know what it's saying
to a lot of women in my predicament?Copy !req
657. They don't care.Copy !req
658. The good news is
that your ligament looks fine.Copy !req
659. - Good.
- Okay? Your ligament looks fine.Copy !req
660. We can actually
sew the cartilage back.Copy !req
661. So you're looking at a minimum
of 12 weeks, maybe 16 weeks...Copy !req
662. before I'll let you play ball again.Copy !req
663. Possibly being able to play
by tournament time.Copy !req
664. Okay?Copy !req
665. I'm gonna slip you a little something
into the I.V...Copy !req
666. to kind of take the edge
off of things, okay?Copy !req
667. All right?Copy !req
668. - I can tell.
- Yeah.Copy !req
669. No doubt.Copy !req
670. - Let's turn him.
- Yeah, this way.Copy !req
671. If it stays there.Copy !req
672. Probably go with the right post here
and little stuff.Copy !req
673. The doctor told me he wasn't gonna even
try to get him ready to play this year.Copy !req
674. So what do you think
that goin' do to his career?Copy !req
675. I really thought Curtis
was gonna make it.Copy !req
676. But he didn't make it,
so I just wanted to try-Copy !req
677. I just wanted this one to make it.Copy !req
678. We were able to repair the cartilage.Copy !req
679. Okay?Copy !req
680. When basketball is over,
William may not have a friend in the world.Copy !req
681. Curtis lost his job as a security guard...Copy !req
682. and has been unemployed
for over four months.Copy !req
683. Sometimes I sit around
and my eyes just kinda get watery...Copy !req
684. 'cause I be, like,
I ain't amounted to nothing.Copy !req
685. You know, I ain't got nothing.Copy !req
686. I can't even go out there and get a job
making seven dollars an hour.Copy !req
687. I'll be sitting there telling myself,
"You ain't gonna get no better. '"Copy !req
688. What did y'all tell me about
after y'all go to college and everything...Copy !req
689. y'all get your own place?Copy !req
690. We can all go to Arby's, baby.!Copy !req
691. - And get fresh Matt's Cookies.
- And going to Jewel’s for our meat.Copy !req
692. - That's a lot of food stamps.
- We ain't gonna need no food stamps.Copy !req
693. Each day is a struggle.Copy !req
694. Trying to deal with the kids' attitudes
as well as my own...Copy !req
695. and trying to be strong enough
for them and myself.Copy !req
696. - That is so neat.
- I forgot to turn in my work.Copy !req
697. That is what you call a neat paper.
Yeah, that's neat.Copy !req
698. Don't you say that about my son.Copy !req
699. My son got a brain.
Now, you cut that out.Copy !req
700. - But he don't use it.
- See that brain there?Copy !req
701. Now there are two
new members of the Agee household.Copy !req
702. Arthur's sister Tomika
has a baby girl named Jazz.Copy !req
703. And Arthur's best friend Shannon moved in
to escape his own troubled home.Copy !req
704. Shannon is like me.Copy !req
705. He understood me,
and I understood him.Copy !req
706. He could sit back and talk to me
'cause I was his best friend.Copy !req
707. He trusted me, and I trust him.Copy !req
708. It's been crazy, as far as his father
and his mother's breakup.Copy !req
709. He'll come home,
and Bo stealing and buying drugs...Copy !req
710. and beat on his mother and stuff.Copy !req
711. You have to call the police
or get an order of protection...Copy !req
712. for him to leave me alone.Copy !req
713. My father was the same way.Copy !req
714. I think about it all the time,
when you come home, and they fightin'.Copy !req
715. You know, that gets to a child's head.Copy !req
716. They can't - Especially when you're
living with your mother...Copy !req
717. and you young,
and that's all you see all the time.Copy !req
718. He had to do something
to keep his spirit up.Copy !req
719. Ahh!Copy !req
720. Why you -Copy !req
721. Starting at guard,
number 11, a junior, Arthur Agee.!Copy !req
722. When I played basketball,
I knew what I wanted to do.Copy !req
723. This is what I want, you know.Copy !req
724. This is what I wanna do
for the rest of my life.Copy !req
725. Come on, win it, boy!Copy !req
726. Get that ball.!Copy !req
727. He's way behind
where I think he should be at this point.Copy !req
728. I've had a few guys come
to me from college -Copy !req
729. "Ooh, I like that kid.
He's quick, he's fast."Copy !req
730. But something's missing with Art.Copy !req
731. Shannon was on the basketball team too.Copy !req
732. He was a little more raw
than Arthur is.Copy !req
733. I couldn't handle two guys like that...Copy !req
734. so I tried the lesser of the evils.Copy !req
735. That was Arthur.Copy !req
736. Marshall's won six and lost 14...Copy !req
737. their worst record in 20 years.Copy !req
738. You just in a hurry to do nothing...Copy !req
739. 'cause that's exactly
what you're doing - nothing.Copy !req
740. After spending
most of the game on the bench...Copy !req
741. Arthur gets another chance.Copy !req
742. Get that ball.! Work that ball, boy.!Copy !req
743. Yes.! That's the way you do it.!Copy !req
744. In the final minutes of a close game...Copy !req
745. Arthur takes it strong to the hoop.Copy !req
746. He's called for charging
and fouls out of the game.Copy !req
747. - There's been some bad calls all day.
- Amen!Copy !req
748. I'm telling you. Oh!Copy !req
749. The daily regimen of rehabilitation...Copy !req
750. is not the only change
in William's life.Copy !req
751. Say "hey!"Copy !req
752. - hey!
- Say "hey!"Copy !req
753. I was just basically scared to tell people.Copy !req
754. I was feelin' sick, you know...Copy !req
755. holding all this stuff
inside of me.Copy !req
756. I couldn't let it out.Copy !req
757. When I did finally tell Coach,
he was like, "When did this come about?'"Copy !req
758. And I said...Copy !req
759. "Oh... three, four months ago."Copy !req
760. he was like,
"Three or four months ago?"Copy !req
761. I was in the delivery room.Copy !req
762. The nurses gave her to her...Copy !req
763. and she handed the baby to me,
you know.Copy !req
764. And I'll never forget
how hard she was squeezing my hand.Copy !req
765. Once we got her home
William offered his help and stuff...Copy !req
766. but it was almost like I didn't want it
'cause she was mine.Copy !req
767. You know?
Instead of the two of us.Copy !req
768. So then, after a while we -
I finally let him keep her.Copy !req
769. And he earned his title.Copy !req
770. You smell good.Copy !req
771. Your numbers look real good.Copy !req
772. I think you're two to three weeks away
from being able to practice full.Copy !req
773. - You know what I mean?
- Two or three weeks?Copy !req
774. I know you wanted to waltz in here todayCopy !req
775. and I'd tell you to go back
to practice right now...Copy !req
776. but I don't want it
to have to tear again.Copy !req
777. I felt that this was the year for me.Copy !req
778. I know we can make it downstate.Copy !req
779. That's just a big dream I done had.Copy !req
780. I look up on the scoreboard-Copy !req
781. My name is not even on there anymore.Copy !req
782. Where do I fit in with this team?Copy !req
783. William takes a makeup exam in math...Copy !req
784. because he skipped the final.Copy !req
785. Here's the cutoff point for passing.Copy !req
786. And you ended up right there.Copy !req
787. So you passed the final - barely.Copy !req
788. When I stopped playing ball,
all my grades just sunk.Copy !req
789. I understand we, uh -
we got the A.C.T. results.Copy !req
790. Yeah.Copy !req
791. Not as good as we, uh -
we wanted, huh?Copy !req
792. William scores a 15 on his first A.C. T.Copy !req
793. He needs to score an 18 to qualify
for an athletic scholarship...Copy !req
794. to any four-year university.Copy !req
795. I think what we have to do is get you
set up with the Britannica course.Copy !req
796. We'll have to talk to Mrs. Wier.
Okay?Copy !req
797. Sometimes you have had the right answer
and you changed it to the wrong answer.Copy !req
798. Through Patricia Wier,
William's St. Joe's sponsor...Copy !req
799. the cost of the six-week class is waived.Copy !req
800. If you're just outright guessing -Copy !req
801. If a monkey took this testCopy !req
802. and you trained him to
do just B's and C's...Copy !req
803. he probably would get more right
than if he picked A's and D's.Copy !req
804. You just don't know the feeling...Copy !req
805. not knowing
if you gonna be able to play...Copy !req
806. just because of a test.Copy !req
807. I mean, as soon as you
don't tighten one screw,Copy !req
808. everything falls apart.Copy !req
809. - El caballo.
- El caballo.Copy !req
810. - La vaca.
- La vaca.Copy !req
811. Arthur, ¿Tienes tu el libro?
¿Tienes tu el libro?Copy !req
812. Mmm.Copy !req
813. - What do I say?
- Okay, how do you say "yes"?Copy !req
814. "Yoy. '"Copy !req
815. - how do you say "yes" in Spanish?
- Sí.Copy !req
816. Sí. Look up on the board.Copy !req
817. He's a pretty smart kid,
but he does just enough to pass.Copy !req
818. Hey, Shannon!Copy !req
819. Most of them
that have come through here...Copy !req
820. and had that type of attitude...Copy !req
821. usually end up in the streetsCopy !req
822. talkin' about they used
to play for Marshall...Copy !req
823. and if they'd gone to class they could've
gone to any school they wanted to.Copy !req
824. This is just somebody
standing on the street corner talking...Copy !req
825. trying to find a job, then can't
find a job, that kind of thing.Copy !req
826. This is where he's headed, really.Copy !req
827. - how's your knee?
- It's pretty good.Copy !req
828. Easiest thing right now would be for you
not to play and wait till next year.Copy !req
829. What do you wanna do?Copy !req
830. - Wait till next year?
- Right.Copy !req
831. - No.
- You think you're ready?Copy !req
832. My next year is now.Copy !req
833. I've seen athletes
who have come back from surgery...Copy !req
834. where they worried about the injury.Copy !req
835. When this happens,
they may never be the player they were.Copy !req
836. William's first startCopy !req
837. is the final home game
of the regular season.Copy !req
838. William should have shot it.Copy !req
839. He gotta do that the whole game.
He only do it when they leadin'.Copy !req
840. It was like my injury
was making him look bad.Copy !req
841. Run it out.!Copy !req
842. I always felt that Curtis...Copy !req
843. should not be living his dream
through me.Copy !req
844. If he don't do somethin'
out here on this court -Copy !req
845. Man, he ain't showed me nothin' yet.Copy !req
846. You gotta come out
and start playing hard all the time.Copy !req
847. Otherwise
you're just another player.Copy !req
848. You follow me?
Just remember the way we talked.Copy !req
849. Okay? As long as you're physically able.Copy !req
850. If you're not, you
shouldn't be playing at all.Copy !req
851. So nervous about the start tonight.Copy !req
852. But I'm glad it's over with.Copy !req
853. Now I can just...Copy !req
854. get onto the floor more better.Copy !req
855. Spread the floor to four corners!Copy !req
856. St. Joe's has made it to the sectionals.Copy !req
857. And in the final minutes...Copy !req
858. William goes to the free throw line
with the Chargers leading by six.Copy !req
859. Always a clutch free-throw shooter...Copy !req
860. he sinks four straight
to help seal the victory.Copy !req
861. In the sectional finals...Copy !req
862. St. Joe's looks for revenge
against Gordon Tech...Copy !req
863. the team that knocked them out
last year.Copy !req
864. With his whole family watching...Copy !req
865. William seems out of sync
and bothered by his knee.Copy !req
866. You are not working hard enough!Copy !req
867. You understand me?
They want it harder than you!Copy !req
868. At the beginning of the fourth quarter...Copy !req
869. St. Joe's leads by a point.Copy !req
870. Got any pain with that?Copy !req
871. While the doctor examines William's knee...Copy !req
872. Gordon Tech surges ahead.Copy !req
873. The Chargers steal the ball,
trailing by one.Copy !req
874. William calls time-out.Copy !req
875. I want it down floor so we can get
it to one of our good jumpers.Copy !req
876. With only seconds on the clock...Copy !req
877. the Chargers find William
in the corner.Copy !req
878. The shot doesn't fall,
but William is fouled.Copy !req
879. With six seconds to go...Copy !req
880. William steps to the line
with two free throws...Copy !req
881. and a chance to win.Copy !req
882. He shouldn't have been out there.
He shouldn't have been playing.Copy !req
883. - The knee?
- I'm very disappointed.Copy !req
884. Y'all get that on tape 18 times.Copy !req
885. Disappointed in the system.
He shouldn't have been out there playing.Copy !req
886. His knee came out of place
a couple of times, it looked like.Copy !req
887. I mean, if winning's that important,
we need to reevaluate the program.Copy !req
888. That ain't no excuse. He got out there,
said there wasn't nothin' wrong with him.Copy !req
889. That's an excuse.Copy !req
890. If he was hurt,
he shouldn't have got out there.Copy !req
891. There's two possible problems
you could have.Copy !req
892. You might have healed,
say, 80% of that cartilage...Copy !req
893. and still have
a small residual tear.Copy !req
894. William's brother-in-law, Alvin...Copy !req
895. takes him to see Dr. Hefferon,
the Chicago Bulls team doctor.Copy !req
896. What you need to do is have
your knee arthroscoped again.Copy !req
897. - What side we gonna do?
- Right side.Copy !req
898. Right.Copy !req
899. A lot of people say I shouldn'tCopy !req
900. have played, shouldn't
have came back at all.Copy !req
901. Coach kept sayin'
it's really up to me...Copy !req
902. and if you leave it up to me
I'm goin' back out there on the court.Copy !req
903. We're gonna remove
this portion of the cartilage here.Copy !req
904. He'll have a higher incidence of arthritis
as he gets older than you or I would.Copy !req
905. But in terms of his basketball career,
he has a good chance of performing fine.Copy !req
906. - There's the medial meniscus.
- Wow.Copy !req
907. It's the only thing on my mind,
is gettin' downstate...Copy !req
908. is makin' it down there.Copy !req
909. I want to be able to go all out
the whole year.Copy !req
910. No setbacks, no nothin'.Copy !req
911. At least Coach won't have to say, "William,
you didn't play hard this game"...Copy !req
912. 'cause when I step on that floor
I'm goin' be all business, and that's it.Copy !req
913. One year after he left...Copy !req
914. Arthur's dad Bo rejoins the family.Copy !req
915. He spent seven months in jail
for burglary...Copy !req
916. and overcame an addiction
to crack cocaine.Copy !req
917. Man might fail ya, but Jesus never fails.!Copy !req
918. Praise God.! Whoo.!
If you haven't tried him, try him.!Copy !req
919. Sometimes you look for friends
and they're not there.Copy !req
920. - But Jesus is always there.
- Amen.!Copy !req
921. - Even in the midnight hour, he's there.
- Amen.Copy !req
922. Glory to God.! Whoo.!Copy !req
923. - hallelujah!
- Hallelujah!Copy !req
924. Glory to God.Copy !req
925. Lord, we know
you always bless the family.Copy !req
926. Glory to God. Even in the beginning, Lord,
you blessed that first family.Copy !req
927. Glory to God. We pray right now,
don't let nothin' come between 'em.Copy !req
928. Send strength, Lord, glory to God,
wherever there is weakness.Copy !req
929. Please, Lord...Copy !req
930. let the love prevail.Copy !req
931. - Yeah.!
- Thank you, Jesus.! Thank you, Lord.!Copy !req
932. That's right.Copy !req
933. While I was incarcerated...Copy !req
934. I just asked God,
"Show me a different way.Copy !req
935. Give me a new life. Take the taste of drugs
and evil way of thinkin' away from me. '"Copy !req
936. I asked the Lord
to forgive me for what I did...Copy !req
937. the times that I mistreated my wife,
beat her physically, you know.Copy !req
938. I just hope this be
a lesson to my children...Copy !req
939. to see me turn my life
over to the Lord.Copy !req
940. Oh, yeah.!Copy !req
941. When I was little...Copy !req
942. he had let me down.Copy !req
943. People used to come up to me -
"Your father a drug addict" and stuff.Copy !req
944. And I'd just be, like, "Yeah, okay."Copy !req
945. You know?Copy !req
946. And I used to take so much,
you know...Copy !req
947. that he has to start realizin'
that, you know -Copy !req
948. that what is he doing, you know.Copy !req
949. 'Cause I remember sometimesCopy !req
950. he used to try to go to
church while he still -Copy !req
951. he was still on drugs
while he was tryin' to go to church.Copy !req
952. Give me a hug before you go.Copy !req
953. - Give your granddad a hug.
- Thank you!Copy !req
954. The closeness was not there at first,
when I come back home.Copy !req
955. And then Arthur,
he was watchin' me-Copy !req
956. What move would I make now?Copy !req
957. Am I just...Copy !req
958. bein' like this
since I just come back...Copy !req
959. or am I gonna break bad again?Copy !req
960. William's dad invites him
down to his auto repair shop.Copy !req
961. He hasn't lived with the family
since William was a baby.Copy !req
962. The car that I was gonna give you,
uh, I didn't finish it up yet.Copy !req
963. I got some more to do to it yet.Copy !req
964. I didn't see him for, like, three years.Copy !req
965. It never popped in my mind.Copy !req
966. - The car back there?
- No, that's the car right over there.Copy !req
967. That black Cutlass right there.Copy !req
968. I think he's, like...Copy !req
969. "Oh, he really must be able
to play some basketball. '"Copy !req
970. I think now he sees
somethin' at the end for himself.Copy !req
971. I remember one time he tried to whup me,
but I wouldn't let him.Copy !req
972. I said, "You may be my dad biologically,
but as far as being there-Copy !req
973. Enough. '"Copy !req
974. You say you'd like to come
to my next show that I do?Copy !req
975. Yeah, come out and...Copy !req
976. finally get a chance
to see you sing and -Copy !req
977. Okay. What I'll
have to doCopy !req
978. - I don't have my schedules
right this minute.Copy !req
979. But I'll have to get that,
and I'll let you know.Copy !req
980. Alicia, you're my only friend.Copy !req
981. "A'wight? Jimmi-fi."Copy !req
982. Thank you.Copy !req
983. I always knew that I was
gonna be a better dad than he was.Copy !req
984. I wouldn’t just leave her like that.Copy !req
985. - Alicia?
- Hmm? Yes, Mama?Copy !req
986. If Alicia has a problem,
then I have a problem.Copy !req
987. She's believing whatever she said.Copy !req
988. William's second rehabilitation...Copy !req
989. is at the Baxter Clinic...Copy !req
990. used by many
of Chicago's pro athletes.Copy !req
991. Both of William's operations and rehabsCopy !req
992. have been paid for by
the school's insurance.Copy !req
993. Don't expect to be playing in a game
the first day back.Copy !req
994. My mother put a big restriction
on those pickups.Copy !req
995. She said, "These are her knees now."Copy !req
996. When you're out on a date,
do you have to have sex?Copy !req
997. - No! No! No!
- Yes, you do!Copy !req
998. No, you don't!Copy !req
999. What about the woman's perspective?Copy !req
1000. All right, quiet down a minute here.!Copy !req
1001. For the second straight year,
Arthur and Shannon must take summer school.Copy !req
1002. - Restate your question.
- What'd I say?Copy !req
1003. Shut up!Copy !req
1004. This class
is for freshmen, sophomores and juniors...Copy !req
1005. who have failed English.Copy !req
1006. The basic problem here...Copy !req
1007. is that we were strapped for money...Copy !req
1008. and we only had one English class
available to our students.Copy !req
1009. Hopefully you could touch a nerve
in some of them...Copy !req
1010. like a spirited discussion
on a controversial topic.Copy !req
1011. Because exactly what is having sex...Copy !req
1012. but engaging in an act
that doesn't fulfill -Copy !req
1013. Shannon really didn't care...Copy !req
1014. so he just stopped coming...Copy !req
1015. and he was dropped
from the roll.Copy !req
1016. Usually in an illicit-Copy !req
1017. Even if Arthur passes summer school...Copy !req
1018. he may not graduate
with his class next year...Copy !req
1019. because St. Joseph's is refusing
to release his transcripts.Copy !req
1020. I called up the school.Copy !req
1021. The lady explained to me
that he owed $1,800...Copy !req
1022. so I felt, well, they have
a school policy there...Copy !req
1023. and there's, uh, nothing
I can do about that.Copy !req
1024. About how much can you afford?Copy !req
1025. Okay, we're looking at 18-Copy !req
1026. - 13. 10.
- Oh.Copy !req
1027. 13.10?Copy !req
1028. 1,813. 10.Copy !req
1029. Well, to total that out...Copy !req
1030. and from here to -Copy !req
1031. June -When is graduation?Copy !req
1032. We're looking at somewhere around-Copy !req
1033. It's 181.30 per month.Copy !req
1034. Is there any way possible that his-
I don't know. I'm just asking.Copy !req
1035. - Sure.
- Could his credits be released too?Copy !req
1036. I will get a promissory agreement
drawn up. Okay?Copy !req
1037. As long as you show me good faith
after the first two months...Copy !req
1038. I'll release 'em, uh -Copy !req
1039. That would be end of September.Copy !req
1040. - Yes, sir.
- Okay.Copy !req
1041. - Then I'll send 'em to Marshall.
- Okay. That would be fine with us.Copy !req
1042. - I really appreciate this.
- How's Arthur doing, anyway?Copy !req
1043. Pretty good.
I can't really complain about him.Copy !req
1044. - Good.
- Wish he could've stayed here, though.Copy !req
1045. - Yeah. Me too.
- Well, things-Copy !req
1046. - Things happen, you know, and -
- Things happen, you know, and-Copy !req
1047. - hey-
- That's part of life.Copy !req
1048. - I can't let him down no more.
- Good.Copy !req
1049. Okay, good.
I hope we can work something out then.Copy !req
1050. - I'd like to thank you.
- No problem.Copy !req
1051. - That's why we're here.
We try to help people.Copy !req
1052. - That's right.Copy !req
1053. - Okay? Very good.
- All right. Thank you very much.Copy !req
1054. - have a nice day.
- Take care now.Copy !req
1055. Okay. Very good.Copy !req
1056. - Okay.
- Okay.Copy !req
1057. - That's what I need.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1058. I think about it-had I not been on drugs
when Arthur went to St. Joseph's...Copy !req
1059. just how good
it would have been for him.Copy !req
1060. He wouldn't have had to leave.Copy !req
1061. Here's one of the corners right hereCopy !req
1062. where I used to come
up and cop all the time.Copy !req
1063. Threw away a lot of money
on these corners, boy.Copy !req
1064. I almost threw my life
right along with it.Copy !req
1065. He can just look at my life...Copy !req
1066. and say here's a good example
of what not to do.Copy !req
1067. If he had my ways...Copy !req
1068. I would be shakin' in my shoes
right now.Copy !req
1069. Hey, look at that Georgetown coat.
Man, I might get that.Copy !req
1070. - Dang!
- Pocket on the side.Copy !req
1071. That's the one I was tellin' you about.Copy !req
1072. How much?Copy !req
1073. Seventy bucks even, no tax.Copy !req
1074. Some of the drug pushers
in the neighborhood...Copy !req
1075. they'll give us money, tell us,
"Go shoppin; Go get you somethin; '"Copy !req
1076. They're thinkin; we playin' basketball
and they can give us stuff...Copy !req
1077. and keep our career goin;Copy !req
1078. So that's how we were to
keep up with the styles.Copy !req
1079. A'ight.Copy !req
1080. While you're sitting here today...Copy !req
1081. you should feel like a million dollars.Copy !req
1082. You should feel so special.Copy !req
1083. You are one of a hundred
of the best high school players...Copy !req
1084. in this country,
the United States.Copy !req
1085. My mother, God bless her,
she's in heaven today.Copy !req
1086. She used to always say
to me, "This is America.Copy !req
1087. You can make something of your life."Copy !req
1088. Come on! Come on!Copy !req
1089. Okay.Copy !req
1090. All the coaches from over here.
To the stands, please, coaches!Copy !req
1091. Coaches, we gotta clear!Copy !req
1092. If you a player, somebody up there
gonna recognize that you a player.Copy !req
1093. So there's 250 of us here.Copy !req
1094. We're doing it to try to find out whoCopy !req
1095. the best players are and
get 'em in our program.Copy !req
1096. There aren't very many kids at any level,
including the NBA...Copy !req
1097. that really understand
what basketball is all about.Copy !req
1098. We always say, you're
going to war, would youCopy !req
1099. want him behind you covering your flank?Copy !req
1100. If you're pouting,
they're gonna also recognize that.Copy !req
1101. And don't tell meCopy !req
1102. they're not gonna write
it down in that book.Copy !req
1103. At the prestigious Nike camp...Copy !req
1104. William hopes to prove
the injuries are behind him...Copy !req
1105. and he belongs
among the nation's best.Copy !req
1106. One, two, three.Copy !req
1107. Next.!Copy !req
1108. One, two, three, four.!Copy !req
1109. Arthur and Shannon spend their summer
at Pizza hut earning 3.35 an hour.Copy !req
1110. Yeah.Copy !req
1111. - hello. How are you all doing today?
- Fine.Copy !req
1112. It's a waste of my time down here.
I'm ready to go home.Copy !req
1113. Here I am, always tryin'
to play this team ball.Copy !req
1114. A few coaches - more coaches
comin' around to look...Copy !req
1115. everybody feel they gotta do
they own little thing here.Copy !req
1116. Move it.! Move it.!Copy !req
1117. Stick in the post.!Copy !req
1118. Some of you are gonna make it
where you want to be...Copy !req
1119. and others of you will not make it.Copy !req
1120. This is summer for them.
They don't wanna be sitting in a classroom.Copy !req
1121. But we provide them with an experience...Copy !req
1122. you can't get anywhere else...Copy !req
1123. in that we simulate what it's going
to be like to be a student athlete.Copy !req
1124. Fifteen hours a week for basketball.
How many hours do we have up here?Copy !req
1125. The statistics on Division I playersCopy !req
1126. graduating from college
are really frightening.Copy !req
1127. Let's assume you're playing
big-time college basketball...Copy !req
1128. and your team travels-Copy !req
1129. You have to realize...Copy !req
1130. that nobody cares about you.Copy !req
1131. You're black,
you're a young male.Copy !req
1132. All you're supposed to do
is deal drugs and mug women.Copy !req
1133. The only reason why you're here-Copy !req
1134. you can make their team win.Copy !req
1135. If their team wins...Copy !req
1136. these schools get a lot of money.Copy !req
1137. This whole thing
is revolving around money.Copy !req
1138. Recruiting is like
any other sales business.Copy !req
1139. We've gotta win to keep our jobs.Copy !req
1140. We've gotta fill the arena
to keep our jobs.Copy !req
1141. And if we don't, they fire us.Copy !req
1142. I mean, that's - hey, if bankers
don't make money, they fire them.Copy !req
1143. When you look at some of these young boys'
bodies, they got NBA bodies already.Copy !req
1144. There's one particular kid
who's here now...Copy !req
1145. I've watched him since sixth grade;
I've watched him blossom.Copy !req
1146. That's when you wanna get on 'em -
when they're young -Copy !req
1147. and start writin' 'em
before everybody else writes 'em.Copy !req
1148. Try to get any edge you can
in this business.Copy !req
1149. It's already become a meat market.Copy !req
1150. But I try to - to, uh, do my job...Copy !req
1151. you know, and serve professional me.Copy !req
1152. What schools do you think
are most involved with William right now?Copy !req
1153. I would say DePaul...Copy !req
1154. Marquette, Indiana, Michigan.Copy !req
1155. Excellent.Copy !req
1156. Great job! Way to go!Copy !req
1157. Bob Gibbons done seen me
play my best game out here.Copy !req
1158. Turned in 16 points, 12 assists.Copy !req
1159. Bob Gibbons over there like this -
"hmm."Copy !req
1160. Yeah, I was smilin' too, Bob.Copy !req
1161. Give me a slice of the crust.Copy !req
1162. Probably will.Copy !req
1163. Thanks a lot.Copy !req
1164. Look.Copy !req
1165. Hey, Mom.Copy !req
1166. Right now I'm feelin' good about myself.Copy !req
1167. I really feel like, since I been down here,
that I was all-American.Copy !req
1168. When I go back home
I'm gonna feel unstoppable.Copy !req
1169. This one eyebrows up.
This one eyebrows up.Copy !req
1170. Swing it!Copy !req
1171. Whoo-hoo!Copy !req
1172. I'm gonna pull up on it, okay?
Tell me if it hurts more.Copy !req
1173. - Yeah.
- It hurts more when I do that?Copy !req
1174. Easy does it, now.Copy !req
1175. It's on the muscle. It's not on the joint.
It's above the joint.Copy !req
1176. Okay?Copy !req
1177. What's your name?Copy !req
1178. Though it's only a muscle injury...Copy !req
1179. it's severe enough that
William will not competeCopy !req
1180. for the final two days of the camp.Copy !req
1181. How many electives
you need to graduate?Copy !req
1182. - Six.
- Six?Copy !req
1183. Arthur's transcript
from St. Joseph's has arrived.Copy !req
1184. If you pass all of the classes
that you're presently taking...Copy !req
1185. you can graduate
from summer school.Copy !req
1186. - Okay?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
1187. - have you taken the A.C.T.?
- Mm-mmm.Copy !req
1188. When do you plan to take it?Copy !req
1189. Sometime soon.Copy !req
1190. What institution are
you planning on going to?Copy !req
1191. Have you decided that?Copy !req
1192. I was, um, thinking about,
going to, um... Alabama.Copy !req
1193. But you need to take
Algebra-Trig. Okay?Copy !req
1194. Do you plan to take that?Copy !req
1195. I don't know.Copy !req
1196. You don't know?Copy !req
1197. So you just barely gettin' by again.Copy !req
1198. No. You ain't gotta say that.Copy !req
1199. But you are.
You've been barely gettin' by all along.Copy !req
1200. Now, you gonna have to do better than that
if you wanna go to Alabama...Copy !req
1201. or any other school.Copy !req
1202. You gonna have to do more
than just get by.Copy !req
1203. Don't forget to bring
those papers back to me.Copy !req
1204. - Okay.
- All right.Copy !req
1205. St. Joe's just messed everything up.
Shouldn't have even went there.Copy !req
1206. Thought I had more credits than this.Copy !req
1207. They goin' kick me out
'cause I ain't payin' 'em money. Man!Copy !req
1208. That's all right, though.
I'm gonna still make it.Copy !req
1209. "Don't let your best
opportunity get away from you.Copy !req
1210. "You can have a great experience
at Marquette University.Copy !req
1211. "Once you visit our campus...Copy !req
1212. "I feel confident that you will know
that Marquette is the right place for you.Copy !req
1213. Sincerely, Kevin O'Neill."Copy !req
1214. I like these.Copy !req
1215. I been gettin; like, two a week
from the school for...Copy !req
1216. a couple of months.Copy !req
1217. So that's quite a few.Copy !req
1218. I know you're game,
but, Monica, you seem very overwrought.Copy !req
1219. I had Division I offers.Copy !req
1220. I had even signed at MarquetteCopy !req
1221. 'cause they thought I
was gonna make the grades.Copy !req
1222. The great ballplayers...Copy !req
1223. they care about basketball
more than they care about school...Copy !req
1224. and I know they do.Copy !req
1225. Shaky. Shaky.Copy !req
1226. Ohh.!Copy !req
1227. Let me try somethin;!Copy !req
1228. If you're looking for
a progressive college basketball program...Copy !req
1229. with experienced leadership
and a winning tradition...Copy !req
1230. then the Marquette Warriors
are for you.Copy !req
1231. William's first home recruiting visit.Copy !req
1232. Three top schools postpone visits...Copy !req
1233. preferring to wait and
see how William will doCopy !req
1234. his senior year at St. Joe's.Copy !req
1235. If you don't make the test score,
it doesn't mean we don't want you...Copy !req
1236. because we still do-
that's what I'm telling you.Copy !req
1237. If you tear your knee out
again this year...Copy !req
1238. and you can't
play ever again...Copy !req
1239. you're gonna have your education
paid for at Marquette University.Copy !req
1240. I know that the scholarship
is one-year renewable.Copy !req
1241. Gene's right about this,
but any school worthCopy !req
1242. its salt is gonna
give you four years.Copy !req
1243. The bottom line is this-
we want to win the national title.Copy !req
1244. Number two-I wanna make you
the best player I can.Copy !req
1245. I wanna give you an opportunity
to, maybe someday...Copy !req
1246. be one of those guys that makes
some money in Europe or in the NBA.Copy !req
1247. You're one of seven guys
that we're recruiting right now.Copy !req
1248. - You're recruiting seven guys?
- Seven guys for three spots.Copy !req
1249. Where he fit in?Copy !req
1250. - Where does he fit in?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1251. As soon as William tells me
he's not looking at any other schools...Copy !req
1252. then I'm not looking at
any other players.Copy !req
1253. So, what?
The first one sign, that's -Copy !req
1254. Well-Well, that's what
it's gonna come down to.Copy !req
1255. If I tell you that, hey,
you're our guy and this and that...Copy !req
1256. and I lose you to Kansas, Indiana,
North Carolina State or something...Copy !req
1257. I'm out of luck.Copy !req
1258. The president's saying to me,
"I thought you were recruiting a guard. '"Copy !req
1259. It's a tough situation,
but it's something that has to be done.Copy !req
1260. It's a great place.Copy !req
1261. We're gettin' ready
to have it rockin;Copy !req
1262. The best is yet to come.Copy !req
1263. Lot of serious ballplayers
been through this building-Copy !req
1264. Junior Bridgeman, Sidney Moncrief,
Bob Lanier, Oscar Robertson.Copy !req
1265. Can you see yourself playing
in this place here, 18,000 in it?Copy !req
1266. Big difference from St. Joe's, now.Copy !req
1267. We stayed at the hyatt.Copy !req
1268. Man, it was nice. Real nice.Copy !req
1269. They had these balloons
all hangin' up on the ceiling, everything.Copy !req
1270. They-They really did it up.Copy !req
1271. And I must say, we did it up too.Copy !req
1272. We - Room service.
Man!Copy !req
1273. Had these phony newspapers written up.Copy !req
1274. Notre Dame 77, Marquette 76.Copy !req
1275. Gates is out high, calling for the ball.!
There are six seconds left.Copy !req
1276. The freshman spins past the defender,
slicing to his left to the foul line.Copy !req
1277. Three seconds left.
Marquette down by one.Copy !req
1278. Gates launches a running one-hander.!
It's on the way.!Copy !req
1279. It is good.!Copy !req
1280. Gates buries a 13-footer
just ahead of the horn...Copy !req
1281. and Marquette
has defeated Notre Dame.!Copy !req
1282. If you think we care about you
a lot in recruiting...Copy !req
1283. we're gonna do more
when you're here.Copy !req
1284. Don't let it get to a
point where somebody elseCopy !req
1285. comes in and takes a scholarship away.Copy !req
1286. Let us know what you wanna do-unless
you know what you wanna do right now.Copy !req
1287. He knows, but he won't say.Copy !req
1288. You talked to any, uh...Copy !req
1289. leading black people on the campus?Copy !req
1290. - The leading black people?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1291. - Such as?
- Whoever might be in charge...Copy !req
1292. of all the black students on campus -Copy !req
1293. what kind of community life
they have for the blacks there.Copy !req
1294. - Uh -
- Did you talk to anyone about it?Copy !req
1295. - Did you ask the players
how they're treated?Copy !req
1296. - Yeah.Copy !req
1297. - What'd they say?
- Players say they treated fine.Copy !req
1298. I mean, they get
the best of everything.Copy !req
1299. - You think that's where you wanna go?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1300. That's fine.Copy !req
1301. Obviously, if you wait you'll haveCopy !req
1302. all the other schools
that were on you before...Copy !req
1303. like Kansas and Indiana
and North Carolina State.Copy !req
1304. That's all right, uh, but...Copy !req
1305. I discussed it with -Copy !req
1306. I think you should take a few days.Copy !req
1307. Because you just came back.
You understand?Copy !req
1308. - Poop!
- Yeah!Copy !req
1309. Yea!Copy !req
1310. Boo!Copy !req
1311. Is there any cash with this?Copy !req
1312. Uh, it's in the mail.Copy !req
1313. To four years of excellence.Copy !req
1314. - hear! hear!
- Hear! hear!Copy !req
1315. - It's alcohol-free.
- It's not that bad.Copy !req
1316. I am fixing him
a birthday dinner today.Copy !req
1317. It's his 18th birthday...Copy !req
1318. and I want to show him
how much we appreciate him and love him...Copy !req
1319. and care for him.Copy !req
1320. Everything that you can imagine
was going wrong with this family...Copy !req
1321. but now everybody's together.Copy !req
1322. It's his favorite cake.Copy !req
1323. He's a great kid.Copy !req
1324. And some kids don't live
to get this age, you know.Copy !req
1325. That's another thing
to be proud about -Copy !req
1326. that, you know,
it's his 18th birthday, he lived...Copy !req
1327. and to get to see 18, that's good.Copy !req
1328. I wanna tell you that I love you very much.
I'm very proud of you.Copy !req
1329. It seems like I was 18 just yesterday.
Here. Happy birthday. I love you.Copy !req
1330. - Ohh.!
- Hey-hey.!Copy !req
1331. - happy birthday!
- I love you too.!Copy !req
1332. - Come over here.
- Where you goin', homes?Copy !req
1333. Where you goin', homes?Copy !req
1334. Blow out the candles.!Copy !req
1335. Two months after his 18th birthday...Copy !req
1336. Arthur is cut off public aid.Copy !req
1337. This is what I brought to their attention.Copy !req
1338. He's still a full-time student.
He hasn't graduated yet.Copy !req
1339. So why would you-all cut him off?Copy !req
1340. - I'll bite you!
- I'll bite you back.Copy !req
1341. They feel like when they get 18...Copy !req
1342. most the black kids
they drop out.Copy !req
1343. So that means that the child
is just thrown out there.Copy !req
1344. I was gettin' 368.
Now I get 268.Copy !req
1345. And that's it.Copy !req
1346. And that's to take care of me
from one month to the next.Copy !req
1347. Now, can you imagine
a person living on that?Copy !req
1348. Do you-all wonder sometime,
how am I livin'?Copy !req
1349. Or how do my children survive,
or how they livin'?Copy !req
1350. It's enough to make people really wanna go
out there and lash out and hurt somebody.Copy !req
1351. A message to the Oreo cookie.Copy !req
1352. No matter how much you wanna switch,
here's what they think about you:Copy !req
1353. Fried chicken
and biscuit-eatin' monkey, ape, baboon...Copy !req
1354. big-thighed, fast-runnin;
high-jumpin; spear-chuckin;..Copy !req
1355. 360-degree basketball-dunkin;..Copy !req
1356. Pit-swingin' spade moulanyan.Copy !req
1357. Go the fuck back to Africa.
Go the fuck back to Africa.Copy !req
1358. Go the fuck back to Africa.Copy !req
1359. Think about it. Fuckin' sellout.Copy !req
1360. Play the music, motherfucker!
Put the music on!Copy !req
1361. Shoot it.Copy !req
1362. Rebound.! Go, go, go.!Copy !req
1363. Gates stinks.Copy !req
1364. You got that? he stinks.Copy !req
1365. He doesn't play with confidence,
like he did before he was injured.Copy !req
1366. I don't believe the other players
have complete confidence in William.Copy !req
1367. They were in awe of William
when he was a sophomore.Copy !req
1368. They're not in awe of him anymore.Copy !req
1369. Sophomore year...Copy !req
1370. I was just carefree.Copy !req
1371. If it could be done,
I was gonna do it.Copy !req
1372. I wish I could
get that attitude back.Copy !req
1373. Go.!Copy !req
1374. Hold up.!
That's crap.!Copy !req
1375. That is dog-shit crap.!Copy !req
1376. Why did you have to
do something unnecessarily?Copy !req
1377. If you would've kept it over here, William
- Look at me!Copy !req
1378. If you had kept it over here, wide,
you could have gone all the way.Copy !req
1379. What is that crap,
the shovel pass?Copy !req
1380. There was never any point in our school...Copy !req
1381. where we just-
just played outright, you know.Copy !req
1382. Now, remember, think about the ball game
on the way to the game.Copy !req
1383. I'll bet a nickel.Copy !req
1384. If I got a nickel.Copy !req
1385. Yeah, I got it!Copy !req
1386. Marshall began its season well...Copy !req
1387. winning four of six.Copy !req
1388. Today's game will be their first
against a city power.Copy !req
1389. The only way you gonna beat them
is to play good basketball.Copy !req
1390. All that bullshit that you be playin' -Copy !req
1391. You play half of a game, for two
or three minutes you play pretty good...Copy !req
1392. then you go to sleep.Copy !req
1393. You have to play a whole ball game.Copy !req
1394. When we start out,
Arthur will be completely in the ball game.Copy !req
1395. But as the game progresses,
then he digresses.Copy !req
1396. By halftime, Marshall trails
highly favored Dunbar by 15 points.Copy !req
1397. But late in the fourth quarter...Copy !req
1398. Arthur and the Commandos
claw their way back.Copy !req
1399. On a crucial possession...Copy !req
1400. the ball goes to Arthur.Copy !req
1401. Hey, boy!
Gimme some, boy!Copy !req
1402. Hey, Arthur G!Copy !req
1403. Hey, Arthur G! You ever got rich,
they'd catch you for sure! Come here, dog!Copy !req
1404. That's it, man.!
Showin' your beef!Copy !req
1405. I want it up high, G.
I want it up high.Copy !req
1406. Led by William's 16 points a game...Copy !req
1407. the Chargers have a 20 and 3 record.Copy !req
1408. But Coach Pingatore feels they're not ready
for the impending play-offs.Copy !req
1409. Alabama.! Alabama.!Copy !req
1410. Alabama.!Copy !req
1411. Well, don't throw the ball!Copy !req
1412. Jesus, will you cut it out
and quit acting like a baby!Copy !req
1413. Will you quit cryin'!Copy !req
1414. This team just drives me crazy.Copy !req
1415. It's been a struggle all year.Copy !req
1416. You think you're better than you are.Copy !req
1417. The two big guys are prima donnas.Copy !req
1418. They should be killin' people.Copy !req
1419. For you people
that are really agonizing...Copy !req
1420. and just hate all this stuff
and all the hollering...Copy !req
1421. if you don't make a turn,
it'll be over next week...Copy !req
1422. so you won't have to worry about it.Copy !req
1423. That's the point.Copy !req
1424. I wanna end this game
in the next three to four minutes.Copy !req
1425. Otherwise it's gonna be a ball game.
All right, let's go get 'em. Come on.Copy !req
1426. Hail Mary, full of grace.Copy !req
1427. Blessed art thou -Copy !req
1428. holy Mary, Mother of
God, pray for us sinnersCopy !req
1429. now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.Copy !req
1430. All right, let's go.
Come on.Copy !req
1431. William's just too nice of a kid.Copy !req
1432. I don't know if he has
the killer temperament.Copy !req
1433. I don't know if he has
the eye of the tiger.Copy !req
1434. He's gonna need that
when he goes to the next level.Copy !req
1435. Remember, square up!Copy !req
1436. It's business, it's big bucks...Copy !req
1437. and that's what the scholarship's for.Copy !req
1438. Good job.Copy !req
1439. - his coach is stingy and selfish.
- My coach is not -Copy !req
1440. he just want William
to run out there and play-Copy !req
1441. - My coach is not stingy and selfish.
- Yes, he is!Copy !req
1442. The day she was gonna be born
I told him he had to be there.Copy !req
1443. I don't care what his coach say.
I know the game was important.Copy !req
1444. But this was more important,
and his coach doesn't see it like that.Copy !req
1445. I just can't miss a game...Copy !req
1446. just because, you know,
an incident occur...Copy !req
1447. unless it was like a death
or somethin' like that.Copy !req
1448. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Ain't like the girl was born every day.Copy !req
1449. That's what I was tryin' to get you to say.Copy !req
1450. Especially around that time
of the year too - state tournament.Copy !req
1451. It was simply out of the question.Copy !req
1452. He tells me,
"Well, it'll benefit us in the future. '"Copy !req
1453. I'm, like, "But what about now?"Copy !req
1454. he keeps sayin' in the fu -Copy !req
1455. Basketball was my ticket
out of the ghetto.Copy !req
1456. If I wouldn't have been playin' ball,
I would not even be goin' to college.Copy !req
1457. I'm goin' to college,
and I have a daughter.Copy !req
1458. So what's
my excuse?Copy !req
1459. Because the situations
are much different.Copy !req
1460. No, it's not.Copy !req
1461. I haven't been workin' for about a year.Copy !req
1462. And if it wasn't for William
knowing Miss Wier...Copy !req
1463. I wouldn't even be here.Copy !req
1464. 'Cause I walked in the door and that'sCopy !req
1465. the first thing I see on the sign
- "No openings."Copy !req
1466. It ain't much better than a person
without a college degree can get.Copy !req
1467. So I feel like I'll be here
for quite a while.Copy !req
1468. What you lookin' at?Copy !req
1469. I don't believe people
when they be sayin; "Wow, school's hard.!'"Copy !req
1470. The work weren't hard for me.Copy !req
1471. All right. I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.Copy !req
1472. If I gotta do, like,
a report or somethin;..Copy !req
1473. I don't like none of the topics,
so I'll just pick somethin' that's simple.Copy !req
1474. So, what's the topic of your paper?Copy !req
1475. The life cycle of the butterfly.Copy !req
1476. - Gonna read it for us?
- Mm-mmm.Copy !req
1477. Aw, come on.!Copy !req
1478. No, man!Copy !req
1479. - I wanna hear it-
- I'm just doin' this stuff!Copy !req
1480. I know, but I just wanna hear
how you write.Copy !req
1481. "Well, as the people bloom
into another year-"Copy !req
1482. You know, the year just changed,
January 1.Copy !req
1483. "The butterfly also blooms.Copy !req
1484. The butterfly are very beautiful
flying objects."Copy !req
1485. Then it say at the
beginning of the butterfly,Copy !req
1486. it goes through a change and all that.Copy !req
1487. Then I keep goin', man.
I just wanna, like, do that stuff.Copy !req
1488. Then I'll just keep goin'
on and on and on...Copy !req
1489. and I won't never stop.Copy !req
1490. Move out the way! Move!
Look out! Move out the way!Copy !req
1491. Its botanical name is Cannabis sativa.Copy !req
1492. Millions of Americans
break the law and use it.Copy !req
1493. Arthur's latest report card shows...Copy !req
1494. he's failing
both Spanish and Science.Copy !req
1495. He rushes through his work.Copy !req
1496. As you see,
he just missed one assignment.Copy !req
1497. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
1498. But his test scores were pretty low.Copy !req
1499. - he had a 10 on one test.
- Mmm-mm-mmm.Copy !req
1500. Will you do me a favor?Copy !req
1501. When you see things are slippin' like this,
give me a call and let me know.Copy !req
1502. Let me make sure I have
the right phone number.Copy !req
1503. So I can stay up on top of this boy.Copy !req
1504. Because he tells you one thing -Copy !req
1505. I say, "Where your book?"We didn't have
to work on the book. It's in my locker."Copy !req
1506. he gonna have to start
showin' me somethin' better.Copy !req
1507. He probably on the borderline,Copy !req
1508. and all that clownin',
people just give him an "F."Copy !req
1509. That's what I would do too.Copy !req
1510. But I'm goin' stay up on his behind
this time around.Copy !req
1511. 'Cause I told him we payin' 181-odd dollars
out there to St. Joseph's...Copy !req
1512. Right.Copy !req
1513. For his transcripts.Copy !req
1514. He got the transcripts
and he ain't doin' that?Copy !req
1515. Uh-uh. It ain't gonna happen like that.Copy !req
1516. Man.!Copy !req
1517. You remember I told you,
whatever I start I finish.Copy !req
1518. I'm not like some people I know.Copy !req
1519. I don't need nobody to push me.Copy !req
1520. All I gotta do is have the goal
and the motivation, and I'm ready.Copy !req
1521. It's Sheila's graduation day...Copy !req
1522. from a nurse's assistants class
at a local community center.Copy !req
1523. A high grade
will assure her certification.Copy !req
1524. I want to be an R.N. nurse.Copy !req
1525. I've always had that dream.Copy !req
1526. Well, Miss Agee.Copy !req
1527. - Sheila.
- Hmm?Copy !req
1528. You scored 89 on the exam.Copy !req
1529. You're gonna get the highest
grade point average for the class.Copy !req
1530. Really? Really?Copy !req
1531. No, no, no, no!Copy !req
1532. Oh, I love you, I love you, I love you!Copy !req
1533. Oh, I'm so happy!Copy !req
1534. Oh, thank you, Miss Martin!Copy !req
1535. You did it yourself.Copy !req
1536. Oh, thank you.Copy !req
1537. Oh, you so good.Copy !req
1538. I didn't think I could do it.Copy !req
1539. - I knew you could do it.
- Yeah, you did.Copy !req
1540. You gave me that belief in myself.Copy !req
1541. You're really inspiring me to go on.Copy !req
1542. Not just stop right here,
but go farther.Copy !req
1543. And people told me
I wasn't goin' be anything.Copy !req
1544. The gym is packed for today's
game against West Side rival, Westinghouse.Copy !req
1545. Marshall's rebounded
from last year's dismal 9 and 16 record...Copy !req
1546. to go 16 and six.Copy !req
1547. And Arthur has emerged as the Commandos'
second-leading scorer and assist man.Copy !req
1548. Rebound.!Copy !req
1549. Some junior colleges have begun to notice.Copy !req
1550. A lot of these kids won't talk
to a junior college...Copy !req
1551. really until after they've seen
the dream of, you know...Copy !req
1552. Illinois and Nevada, Las Vegas
and Georgetown kind of fade.Copy !req
1553. A junior college could
be Arthur's only hope.Copy !req
1554. Without better grades
and an 18 on the A.C. T...Copy !req
1555. major colleges can't offer him
a scholarship.Copy !req
1556. It's just too bad
those kids don't realize...Copy !req
1557. hey, if they had an 18,
the door is so much wider open.Copy !req
1558. You're in the middle.!Copy !req
1559. In the fourth quarter, the CommandosCopy !req
1560. fight back from an
11-point halftime deficit.Copy !req
1561. They trail by one.Copy !req
1562. We gotta play more aggressive on defense.
We're not good at playin' on defense.Copy !req
1563. Yeah, man.Copy !req
1564. Defense!Copy !req
1565. Derrick Zinneman's layup
pushes Marshall to a one-point lead.Copy !req
1566. Moments later,
a Westinghouse foul...Copy !req
1567. and then a double technical puts ArthurCopy !req
1568. on the line with a
chance to ice the victory.Copy !req
1569. One more! Whoo!Copy !req
1570. The upset win is sweet vindication
for the unranked Commandos.Copy !req
1571. - Arthur Agee, you lead the books.
- Junior!Copy !req
1572. You got seven.Copy !req
1573. Seven turnovers.
Even for the guards, that's too many.Copy !req
1574. This is a good win for you,
but it doesn't mean anything.Copy !req
1575. You gotta do better than that, man.Copy !req
1576. You have to do better than that.Copy !req
1577. Yeah, man.
That was a good game though.Copy !req
1578. You could have played better though,
you know.Copy !req
1579. Oh, Mom. You know he did good.
You’re just killing me.Copy !req
1580. You know your mother's proud of you.Copy !req
1581. He been gettin' down.Copy !req
1582. Like a real star.Copy !req
1583. Number 11...Copy !req
1584. Arthur Agee.!Copy !req
1585. Nearly four yearsCopy !req
1586. after discovering Arthur
on the playground...Copy !req
1587. Earl Smith shows up to see Arthur win
his first play-off game.Copy !req
1588. I figured this game and the next game
may be his last high school ball game.Copy !req
1589. - Where you been, man?
- Where I been?Copy !req
1590. - Yeah. Where you been?
- I've been workin'.Copy !req
1591. - Oh, yeah, right.
- I've been following you in the paper.Copy !req
1592. - Oh, yeah. You impressed or somethin'?
- Yeah. I'm impressed. I'm here, ain't I?Copy !req
1593. If I wasn't, I wouldn't
have followed you.Copy !req
1594. You been
talking to Ping?Copy !req
1595. - For what?
- You don't talk to him no more?Copy !req
1596. - Why not?
- What do I have to talk to him about?Copy !req
1597. - Well, Jamal -
- You ain't there.Copy !req
1598. - Yeah, you're right. I had to break out.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1599. So I was thinkin' about goin' tonight
to see, uh, St. Joe and Nazareth play...Copy !req
1600. but I wasn't sure
if you had time to do it.Copy !req
1601. Yeah.Copy !req
1602. I've got a bitter taste in my mouth
about a lot of things that happened.Copy !req
1603. A lot of people accuse me
of taking youngsters...Copy !req
1604. out of the inner city and taking them out
to St. Joe high School...Copy !req
1605. and they ask
what did I get out of the deal and...Copy !req
1606. a lot of racial slurs and so forth from
my own people about me, about what I did.Copy !req
1607. I still felt and feel
that I was doing the right thing...Copy !req
1608. for that particular time.Copy !req
1609. Uh, sometimes I have second thoughts...Copy !req
1610. when I see the net results
of what happened with the youngsters.Copy !req
1611. Arthur.Copy !req
1612. - Arthur-
- Arthur Agee, sophomore.Copy !req
1613. My gosh. What are you doin'?Copy !req
1614. - What are you doin' now?
- Goin' to school.Copy !req
1615. - Where?
- Marshall.Copy !req
1616. Oh, I taught him.
Can you believe it?Copy !req
1617. - So you came in case you
have to play St. Joe's?Copy !req
1618. - Yeah.Copy !req
1619. Arthur. Arthur.Copy !req
1620. - What's up, man?
- What's up, man?Copy !req
1621. - What you been up to?
You playing basketball?Copy !req
1622. - What? Yeah.Copy !req
1623. - how'd you guys do?
- We did a'ight. Still playin;Copy !req
1624. Still playin'?
When's your next game?Copy !req
1625. - We gotta play Crane.
High school in Chicago.Copy !req
1626. - That's cool.Copy !req
1627. It'll be all right.Copy !req
1628. William is benched
for arriving late to the locker room...Copy !req
1629. and Nazareth threatens.Copy !req
1630. William enters the game to go head-to-head
with Nazareth star Sean Pearson...Copy !req
1631. his friend and roommate
from the Nike camp.Copy !req
1632. The favored Chargers
race to an early 14-point lead...Copy !req
1633. in this second-round play-off game.Copy !req
1634. Give me an "E"!
Give me an "R"!Copy !req
1635. But near the end of the game...Copy !req
1636. St. Joe's begins to unravel.Copy !req
1637. William takes control.Copy !req
1638. Pearson responds.Copy !req
1639. His three-point shot gives the Roadrunners
their first lead of the game.Copy !req
1640. For the Chargers, their whole season
may come down to this possession.Copy !req
1641. Down by one,
with just over a minute remaining.Copy !req
1642. A loss tonight would be their earliest
exit from the play-offs in six years.Copy !req
1643. And for William,
there is no next year...Copy !req
1644. no more chances to get downstate.Copy !req
1645. It ain't but one thing: bad coaching.Copy !req
1646. Bad coaching.Copy !req
1647. Well, we got him here
about five minutes late.Copy !req
1648. So what? This -This ain't no time
to be teaching nobody no lesson.Copy !req
1649. All right, boy.Copy !req
1650. It's all right, bro.Copy !req
1651. - You all right? You're crying, man.
- Shut up.Copy !req
1652. Yeah.Copy !req
1653. - It hurt, don't it?
- Yeah. More than ever, man.Copy !req
1654. - I didn't never want
to go out this way, man.Copy !req
1655. - Your last year, man.Copy !req
1656. I'm trying to get it, man.
I'm striving for the same thing.Copy !req
1657. Hey, man. We'll call you.
Give me a ring. All right?Copy !req
1658. - All right.
- You played a good game, boy. All right.Copy !req
1659. You're gonna be all right.Copy !req
1660. - I love you, boy.
- I love you too, man.Copy !req
1661. All right.Copy !req
1662. William was 20 minutes late.Copy !req
1663. The team was dressed and already talking.Copy !req
1664. Then he came strolling in.Copy !req
1665. Maybe he has to learn something from that.Copy !req
1666. Even in a big game.Copy !req
1667. The game was a mirror-Copy !req
1668. It was a mirror
of all of the games all year.Copy !req
1669. To quote Isiah, the toughest loss
he ever took was the-Copy !req
1670. My toughest. And that
was the De La Salle gameCopy !req
1671. in 1979 when we got beat at the buzzer.Copy !req
1672. On a 30-footer. And we were favored
to win the state that year.Copy !req
1673. Um, now we look back on it
as just one of those great moments in -Copy !req
1674. in our high school scene.Copy !req
1675. Our toughest loss to take,
and we talk about it.Copy !req
1676. So that's what I look at, you know,
with these things now.Copy !req
1677. - Arthur, we could have used you tonight.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1678. Good luck.
I'm gonna be watchin'. Don't forget.Copy !req
1679. Stay in touch.Copy !req
1680. - 'Cause we've talked about -You know.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1681. - School.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1682. All right. I'm watching you score.
How's your grades?Copy !req
1683. - They're all right.
- Good.Copy !req
1684. - They're all right.
- We missed you.Copy !req
1685. - I missed y'all too.
- Well, I'm proud of what you've done.Copy !req
1686. Mr. Bedford said
a lot of good things about you.Copy !req
1687. - You be in touch. Okay?
- Okay. All right.Copy !req
1688. - Good luck.
- All right. You too.Copy !req
1689. Marshall's second-round opponent,
Manley, presents little challenge.Copy !req
1690. This just explains a little bit
about our program...Copy !req
1691. where our program's headed.Copy !req
1692. I like what you're sayin;
and I want him close to home.Copy !req
1693. - Yeah.
- You know. And, uh -Copy !req
1694. I think, you know -
I'm kind of leaning your way...Copy !req
1695. because I just thank God
that he's getting into it -Copy !req
1696. you know, somebody do want him.Copy !req
1697. I'm Tommy Travis,
Northeastern Illinois assistant coach.Copy !req
1698. - Okay. Nice to meet you.
- I'm Arthur's father.Copy !req
1699. - Arthur hester.
- Okay. Arthur hester.Copy !req
1700. Us Arts gotta stick together.Copy !req
1701. - I'm over at Kennedy-King.
- Kennedy-King?Copy !req
1702. - Yeah.
- Okay.Copy !req
1703. May the best man win.Copy !req
1704. - I thought mom was a cheerleader.
- Oh, thanks.Copy !req
1705. Thank you for the compliment.Copy !req
1706. His parents seem to think
he may, uh, pass the A.C.T.Copy !req
1707. - he may what?
- He may pass it.Copy !req
1708. Oh, yeah.
Well, I hope he does.Copy !req
1709. - Us Arts gotta stick together, guy.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1710. - Okay.
- Hey.Copy !req
1711. Would you get excited if a college coach
came up and talked to you?Copy !req
1712. Not really.Copy !req
1713. Really, it's just-
You’re just going...Copy !req
1714. to another level
of basketball. That's all.Copy !req
1715. I'll be excited when I get there.Copy !req
1716. That's when you'll be
excited the whole year.Copy !req
1717. I'll be excited as soon as I step up
in there - first day of practice.Copy !req
1718. If I graduate, I think I'll be
the only one in my family...Copy !req
1719. besides my uncle,
to finish college.Copy !req
1720. Me too.Copy !req
1721. In the fourth round
against heavily favored Taft...Copy !req
1722. Marshall meets their first
true test of the play-offs.Copy !req
1723. But the Commandos have been
bucking the odds all year.Copy !req
1724. Arthur plays one of his best games
of the season...Copy !req
1725. scoring 19 points...Copy !req
1726. and the Commandos claim a spot
in the city semifinals.Copy !req
1727. The final four! I told y'all
he was going all the way. All the way!Copy !req
1728. Do you guys feel you can play with
any team in the city?Copy !req
1729. On any given day, we can play with anybody.
We can beat anybody.Copy !req
1730. Marshall now faces
the ultimate test::Copy !req
1731. King high School,
the rulers of the public league.Copy !req
1732. Winners of last year's state crown,Copy !req
1733. they were labeled the
best team in the country.Copy !req
1734. King has sparked controversy
by out-recruiting rivals...Copy !req
1735. for the biggest and best
grammar school players.Copy !req
1736. We don't understand what
we're really doing to these young kids.Copy !req
1737. Kid not even 12 years old...Copy !req
1738. and you're baiting him
to come to your school...Copy !req
1739. you know, to play basketball.Copy !req
1740. Falls back in the paint.Copy !req
1741. I'm not going to start
recruiting in that manner.Copy !req
1742. No, I'll probably get out
of the game before then.Copy !req
1743. The winner of these two semifinal games...Copy !req
1744. will play for the Chicago Public
high School Basketball Championship.Copy !req
1745. King's strategy is to
go inside to its two seven-foot starters.Copy !req
1746. Only Arthur seems
unintimidated by the Jaguars.Copy !req
1747. And King's poor play
keeps the game close.Copy !req
1748. We are the... best.!
We are the team!Copy !req
1749. I think they gonna take it.Copy !req
1750. But in the second half,
King makes their move.Copy !req
1751. - What are you doin'?
- Come on. Get in the game.!Copy !req
1752. King grabs a four-point lead.Copy !req
1753. Hey, Mookie, Mookie, Mookie!Copy !req
1754. Y'all playing
with no confidence whatsoever.Copy !req
1755. None!Copy !req
1756. None.!Copy !req
1757. - All right! Go get in charge of that ball!
- Don't foul him! Don't foul him!Copy !req
1758. Let's go! Let's go!Copy !req
1759. The Commandos get aggressive on defense...Copy !req
1760. Too soon now!Copy !req
1761. And use their superior speed on offense.Copy !req
1762. Players, sit down.
We got three minutes to go. Sit down.Copy !req
1763. Marshall grabs a six-point lead
late in the game.Copy !req
1764. We got a long time to play.Copy !req
1765. Coach Bedford wants to force King
out of their zone defense...Copy !req
1766. and make their big, slow players match up
man-to-man against Marshall's quick guards.Copy !req
1767. One, two, three. Defense!Copy !req
1768. Arthur simply holds the ball
as the clock ticks away.Copy !req
1769. The King coach has no choice.Copy !req
1770. For the defending national champions,
it's all over.Copy !req
1771. And unranked Marshall
will play for the city title.Copy !req
1772. Whoo! 26-2 now!Copy !req
1773. They're 26 and 2 now.Copy !req
1774. That's my Man!Copy !req
1775. All right, Man!Copy !req
1776. - I told you we could do it.
- Yes!Copy !req
1777. - I told you we could do it.
- I told you you were gonna do it.Copy !req
1778. I knew y'all was going all the way.
I told ya.Copy !req
1779. I said, "You're going all the way."Copy !req
1780. This is your last year.
You're going all the way. Yeah.Copy !req
1781. They got the best shot of him, you know.Copy !req
1782. And it's great.
That was a great shot, wasn't it?Copy !req
1783. But this one in the, uh, Tribune
is what I really like.Copy !req
1784. It says,
"Arthur Agee stood as still as a statue.Copy !req
1785. Time after time was on his side."Copy !req
1786. You know, the championship
that I missed when I was in high school-Copy !req
1787. Yeah.Copy !req
1788. Twenty-one years later I got a chance
at getting a championship through him.Copy !req
1789. You know, you're always trying to
build your children up...Copy !req
1790. and saying, "Well, you-all can do it"...Copy !req
1791. but, you know, really lying on
the inside a little bit, saying...Copy !req
1792. "Well, you know, you got a long haul."Copy !req
1793. But, you know,
this make you even more confidence...Copy !req
1794. because if he's sure of hisself,
then you know you can bank on it.Copy !req
1795. Yesterday, you know, when he won the game,
you know, he told me he loved me.Copy !req
1796. And, you know, I haven't heard that
in, uh -You know.Copy !req
1797. You can feel it, but I haven't heard it
coming verbally from him.Copy !req
1798. In a rematch with rival Westinghouse...Copy !req
1799. Marshall proves to everybody
they have what it takes to be city champs.Copy !req
1800. Inside pass. Shot rejected.Copy !req
1801. To the lane with the layin.Copy !req
1802. Busts this game wide open.Copy !req
1803. Did you see that?
Did you see it? Did you see it?Copy !req
1804. They are celebrating because they know...Copy !req
1805. their high school is headed
to the elite eight in Champaign.Copy !req
1806. And the Marshall Commandos
have won the Public League Championship...Copy !req
1807. in convincing fashion-Copy !req
1808. 58-38 winners over
the Westinghouse Warriors.Copy !req
1809. What's up, man?
Told you on the phone what I was gonna do.Copy !req
1810. Told you, boy.Copy !req
1811. Marshall, baby. Marshall!Copy !req
1812. Marshall!Copy !req
1813. Marshall.! Marshall.!Copy !req
1814. Marshall.! Marshall.!Copy !req
1815. Your A.C.T. came in, William,
and you received a 14 for a composite...Copy !req
1816. which is not high enough.Copy !req
1817. Uh, you've taken the test-
Now, this was for the fourth time.Copy !req
1818. Now, if you add all those up,
it comes out to 17.2.Copy !req
1819. In order to play at Marquette,
you're gonna have to get the 18.Copy !req
1820. And they're very, very concerned.Copy !req
1821. One assistant called twice this week,
and Bo Ellis called today.Copy !req
1822. Smile, William.
It's not the end of the world.Copy !req
1823. - Right?
- I hope not.Copy !req
1824. Well, you gotta work at this
as hard as you worked at your jump shot.Copy !req
1825. And it was missing a lot this year.Copy !req
1826. Okay.Copy !req
1827. Now you are down to the final inning
and the last strike.Copy !req
1828. We're going, going downstate!
We're going downstate!Copy !req
1829. Now let's, let's celebrate!
Now let's celebrate!Copy !req
1830. - What are we gonna be?
- State champions.!Copy !req
1831. Your Marshall Commandos.!Copy !req
1832. - Yeah!
- We're gonna take state!Copy !req
1833. Take state! Number one!Copy !req
1834. Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A.!Copy !req
1835. Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A.!Copy !req
1836. Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A!Copy !req
1837. Downstate Marshall plays
its familiar role as underdog...Copy !req
1838. to third-ranked Batavia.Copy !req
1839. Justice has it. Justice, one-on-two.Copy !req
1840. - Spins up-
- Nice move.Copy !req
1841. In the media glare of a statewide
audience, Marshall shows big-game jitters.Copy !req
1842. Now bust out.Copy !req
1843. And Marshall missed the layup.Copy !req
1844. Sealed off, blocked by Williams.Copy !req
1845. You got easy shots.
You gotta make your easy shots.Copy !req
1846. I can't shoot for you.Copy !req
1847. Now he's gonna penetrate.
Left it for Christian. Missed the shot.Copy !req
1848. Luther Bedford looks like
he's ready to commit suicide over there.Copy !req
1849. Y'all better get on your job,
Commandos!Copy !req
1850. - Now into the corner.
- Get in there.Copy !req
1851. Batavia's got these guys on the run.Copy !req
1852. One, one, one, one!Copy !req
1853. One, one, one, one.!Copy !req
1854. But in the third quarter,
the Commandos charge back.Copy !req
1855. And a steal by Marshall.!Copy !req
1856. Agee gonna take it all the way.Copy !req
1857. Yes! That's the way you go!Copy !req
1858. - here we go.
- Picked him clean.Copy !req
1859. Dale. Marshall leads.Copy !req
1860. Marshall's first lead
since the first quarter.Copy !req
1861. Like a lightning bolt,
the Commandos have struck.Copy !req
1862. 37-36, Marshall leading Batavia.Copy !req
1863. Chicago Marshall has exploded-Copy !req
1864. I always dreamed of, like...Copy !req
1865. me and William taking
them downstate together.Copy !req
1866. When I was at St. Joseph...Copy !req
1867. maybe we could have went downstate,
and maybe we couldn't.Copy !req
1868. But we did when I'm at Marshall.Copy !req
1869. Arthur's big fourth quarter
helps add Batavia...Copy !req
1870. to Marshall's growing list of upsets.Copy !req
1871. Spectacular comeback
in the fourth quarter by the Commandos-Copy !req
1872. In the post-game news conference...Copy !req
1873. Coach Bedford labels
his unranked team "the giant killers. '"Copy !req
1874. - Y'all are playing the number one team.
- We're playing the number one team.Copy !req
1875. We're playing the number two team.Copy !req
1876. This is the first time in the history
of the school that we've gone this far.Copy !req
1877. - Really?
- In the history of the school.Copy !req
1878. Just like the Commandos.
See, we been the underdog.Copy !req
1879. I'm glad we are because then
it just show you how you could come up.Copy !req
1880. And then you beat your opponent.Copy !req
1881. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
1882. Be a good place for Man to come.Copy !req
1883. Yeah. This is really, you know,
something that a -Copy !req
1884. a child would really miss out on.Copy !req
1885. Like a whole different world.Copy !req
1886. It's beyond different.Copy !req
1887. Uh-huh.Copy !req
1888. In this semifinal game,
we'll see some great individuals...Copy !req
1889. just as we saw many years ago.Copy !req
1890. Remember Isiah Thomas,
one of the great guards.Copy !req
1891. Here you see the same moves
he plays with in the NBA today.Copy !req
1892. Well, we've got someone like that:
howard Nathan, number 34...Copy !req
1893. for Peoria Manual.Copy !req
1894. Marshall got here because of
one reason: quickness.Copy !req
1895. The reason: Arthur Agee.
Look at this man. He just explodes, Dan.Copy !req
1896. He can get down court
as quick as anyone I've ever seen.Copy !req
1897. In the semifinals...Copy !req
1898. Arthur goes head-to-head
with howard Nathan, the all-American.Copy !req
1899. Make him work for it, Man.
Make him work for what he get.Copy !req
1900. All right! Let's go!
All the way, Man! All the way!Copy !req
1901. Yeah! That's it! That's it! That's it!Copy !req
1902. Arthur Agee, spinning inside,
tough shot. Good.Copy !req
1903. Arthur has a great first half...Copy !req
1904. but the Rams play even better.Copy !req
1905. He's got it.Copy !req
1906. Get up for the Rams!
Everybody get up!Copy !req
1907. Get up for the Rams.!Copy !req
1908. In the second half,
Arthur tries to pick up where he left off.Copy !req
1909. Penetration move by Agee. SlappedCopy !req
1910. out of there by Manual.
They've got two-on-one.Copy !req
1911. Ooh, and a nice fake and a score.Copy !req
1912. But it's the Rams who don't miss a beat...Copy !req
1913. pressing the tempo against
the tired Commandos.Copy !req
1914. You're not in the offense at all.Copy !req
1915. You're just out there
playing individual basketball.Copy !req
1916. Completely.Copy !req
1917. Hey, hey, guys. No fouls.
We want to keep the clock going. Remember?Copy !req
1918. Let's go, Marshall!
Let's go!Copy !req
1919. Let's go, Marshall.!
Let's go.!Copy !req
1920. Marshall showed us last night
they have the ability to come back.Copy !req
1921. Let's see what they can do here.Copy !req
1922. This is Nathan.Copy !req
1923. Nice pass.
Knock it down.Copy !req
1924. Biggest lead of the game now,
and the Rams fans can smell it.Copy !req
1925. Been a great run
for Luther Bedford's team.Copy !req
1926. The string of upsets stops here.Copy !req
1927. - And a foul on Agee.
- He fouls out.Copy !req
1928. But he just never quit.
He just kept going for the basketball.Copy !req
1929. I wouldn't be surprised
if he made the all-tournament team tonight.Copy !req
1930. - Number one!
- We're number one.!Copy !req
1931. We're still number one.Copy !req
1932. All right. All right.Copy !req
1933. Though they lose to Peoria Manual...Copy !req
1934. they finish third in the state, the highest
a Marshall team has finished since 1960.Copy !req
1935. This was a great season you had.Copy !req
1936. There is nothing sweeter
than going downstate as a young person.Copy !req
1937. I mean, the record's
gonna stay there, you know.Copy !req
1938. 1991, there was a team
from Marshall played.Copy !req
1939. - You know, and you're part of that.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1940. - That's part of history.
- Ah!Copy !req
1941. But for you seniors, you know-Copy !req
1942. Best wishes to all you seniors,
and whatever you try to do, uh...Copy !req
1943. Mr. Williams and I
will be around school...Copy !req
1944. as we always are -Copy !req
1945. to help you if you want to be helped, okay?Copy !req
1946. Winning five games in six days,
that really takes a lot out of you.Copy !req
1947. Like Coach said, you just gotta sacrifice-Copy !req
1948. you know, sacrifice everything you have.Copy !req
1949. Like, if you love the
game of basketball,Copy !req
1950. you just go out there
and give all your heart.Copy !req
1951. He got a little ways to go,
but he's - he's gonna get there.Copy !req
1952. Hopefully he's got his head
screwed on pretty good, you know...Copy !req
1953. and now, you know,
he's gonna be on his own to do whatever.Copy !req
1954. Hopefully he'll do it right.Copy !req
1955. When we got down here, people don't expect
- "Marshall? how'd they get down here?"Copy !req
1956. They lookin' like: "Who
they got on their team?"Copy !req
1957. I had to come out and prove myself.Copy !req
1958. I think I could play Division I basketball.Copy !req
1959. 'Cause all I need is just a scholarship.
That's -That's all I'm looking for.Copy !req
1960. Arthur Agee.Copy !req
1961. All right!Copy !req
1962. All this area through here
is our new computer labs.Copy !req
1963. We'll take you through
all those rooms.Copy !req
1964. Arthur's first recruiting visit...Copy !req
1965. takes him to a junior college
in Southern Missouri.Copy !req
1966. The strength that I see hereCopy !req
1967. is the tremendous
teaching that goes on here.Copy !req
1968. Have you decided
what you want to go into?Copy !req
1969. Uh, communications.Copy !req
1970. Are you more interested
in the overall communications -Copy !req
1971. That, and, uh -
I like that and accounting.Copy !req
1972. - Like business.
- Oh. Okay.Copy !req
1973. We enjoy winning things,
but the primary purpose is your education.Copy !req
1974. What are some of your career goals,
may I ask?Copy !req
1975. I want to fall back to,
like, make - have my own business.Copy !req
1976. Like real estate.Copy !req
1977. This is where it all happens.Copy !req
1978. Beautiful place.
And it gets to rockin;Copy !req
1979. - You gonna try it on there?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1980. Those are about $ 120 apiece.Copy !req
1981. You need to be very careful
with this decision.Copy !req
1982. You know, if you come in and act right,
you're going out of here...Copy !req
1983. with two years
of your college finished...Copy !req
1984. a scholarship to a Division I university.Copy !req
1985. Exactly where you'd want to be-
on track to graduate in four years.Copy !req
1986. Mineral Area doesn't have dorms...Copy !req
1987. but it does have a basketball house.Copy !req
1988. All the ballplayers
on scholarship live here.Copy !req
1989. Get your ass up, nigga.Copy !req
1990. Of the seven blacks
in the entire school...Copy !req
1991. six live in this house.Copy !req
1992. You come in and look at this little house,
then after a while you get used to it.Copy !req
1993. Try to make a little home, you know.Copy !req
1994. Home away from home anyway.Copy !req
1995. We hang around each other most of the time.Copy !req
1996. We know who to trust,
who not to trust.Copy !req
1997. I just want to go somewhere
where I'm gonna play.Copy !req
1998. I can get the grades.Copy !req
1999. I love basketball.Copy !req
2000. How many of your
players that leave thereCopy !req
2001. and they end up going
to a four-year college?Copy !req
2002. - Thirty-one sophomores in a row.
- Really?Copy !req
2003. Every last one of 'em he coached.Copy !req
2004. - hi. How you doing?
- Hey. How you doing?Copy !req
2005. - Arthur Sr.
- Bo and Sheila have been separated.Copy !req
2006. She asked him to return today
over Arthur's objections.Copy !req
2007. I'll show you exactly
what the scholarship entails.Copy !req
2008. Is this a full scholarship
for the two years?Copy !req
2009. The reason I'm skeptical is because of
the promises that was made in the past.Copy !req
2010. From the time he comes down thereCopy !req
2011. until he leaves, you will
not have a financial need.Copy !req
2012. Now, when you make this decision...Copy !req
2013. you got to live and die with it.Copy !req
2014. 'Cause it's your decision to make.Copy !req
2015. Now, I'm here to support you if you -
if you done searched this whole thing.Copy !req
2016. And it's what you really want.Copy !req
2017. Not, you know,
'cause Mama said this or your dad-Copy !req
2018. Or because you're saving
Mama money, because if we have to...Copy !req
2019. we will still pay-
if you have to try to pay-Copy !req
2020. if we can put some-
I'm just sayin;Copy !req
2021. You - Understand what you're saying. You
want to save somebody money, but still -Copy !req
2022. But you have to still do
what is best from here.Copy !req
2023. But still we want the best for you -
even if you have to -Copy !req
2024. or we have to go in the hole, you know.Copy !req
2025. You understand what I'm
saying? I'm just saying.Copy !req
2026. But still, the decision is up to you.Copy !req
2027. So, what do you think?Copy !req
2028. Ah.Copy !req
2029. - Ready to sign it?
- Yeah.Copy !req
2030. - Yep.
- Let's do it up.Copy !req
2031. - What time is it?
- 1:56.Copy !req
2032. 56.Copy !req
2033. Come on, Bo.
Whip it to him.Copy !req
2034. When I was 23, how old was he?Copy !req
2035. And I whupped him then.Copy !req
2036. Aw!Copy !req
2037. You want to see it rain?Copy !req
2038. Let it rain.!Copy !req
2039. - You want to see it rain?
- One more time.Copy !req
2040. Let it rain!Copy !req
2041. You want to see it rain?Copy !req
2042. Let it rain!Copy !req
2043. Oh!Copy !req
2044. Peoria Manual.
Remember what they did to you now.Copy !req
2045. Yeah. Do you know howard Nathan?Copy !req
2046. And I strung him up,
just like that.Copy !req
2047. Uh-oh. Like father, like son.
What's up with that?Copy !req
2048. You better stick to church music,
leave that basketball alone.Copy !req
2049. Hell, no. You can't do that.Copy !req
2050. Foul! Foul!Copy !req
2051. Foul. Foul, foul, foul.Copy !req
2052. - That's 32.
- That's 34.Copy !req
2053. - 34!
- That didn't count 'cause he called "Bo."Copy !req
2054. - That's 34!
- That's 32!Copy !req
2055. - he didn't hit nothing else.!
- I did!Copy !req
2056. - he didn't hit nothing else!
- It's 34-28, Bo.Copy !req
2057. - Bo's a sore loser.
- All right!Copy !req
2058. - No. I know how to count though.
- Ain't no con game. I'm older now.Copy !req
2059. - Yeah.
- Ain't no con game going on no more.Copy !req
2060. - No more. Ain't no more.
- The score is 32 to 28.Copy !req
2061. Now, you can play for 32 if you want to.Copy !req
2062. Game over with.
I can con too.Copy !req
2063. Losers quit. I'm ready to play.Copy !req
2064. Now, youse a coward if you don't-
Check ball.Copy !req
2065. - You're mad now.
- Check ball.Copy !req
2066. - Throw it over there.Copy !req
2067. - You ain't two years old.
You ain't gettin' no pacifier.Copy !req
2068. - Give me that.
- Yeah.Copy !req
2069. Your mama ain't here
to give you this ball. Let's go.Copy !req
2070. - Give me the rock.
- Let's make it rain. Make it rain.Copy !req
2071. Bang. Bang. Right there.Copy !req
2072. Ha! Go sit down.
Go sit down.Copy !req
2073. Bo, it's raining.!Copy !req
2074. Bo, it's raining.Copy !req
2075. - It's raining, Bo!
- It's raining, Bo!Copy !req
2076. You're on punishment when you get home.
You're on punishment when you get home.Copy !req
2077. And you're on punishment
when you get home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.Copy !req
2078. It's gonna rain on your head, Bo.Copy !req
2079. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen...Copy !req
2080. and welcome to St. Joseph's
Annual Basketball Awards Dinner.Copy !req
2081. We had a...Copy !req
2082. difficult year.Copy !req
2083. Most of you are aware of that.Copy !req
2084. When I first went to St. Joe's,Copy !req
2085. I really did sleep, eat
and drink basketball.Copy !req
2086. That was all I did.Copy !req
2087. But it became more of a job
than a sport to play.Copy !req
2088. Things here have not changed since-Copy !req
2089. You know, Coach Pingatore
just had these dreams in his head.Copy !req
2090. He just wanted me to go
the same route he took Isiah.Copy !req
2091. The most steals.Copy !req
2092. He played as a freshman.
Not even Isiah was a four-year starter.Copy !req
2093. You know, basketball was just like-
he was possessed with it.Copy !req
2094. You know, it was his life.Copy !req
2095. And he wanted it to be
everybody else's life too.Copy !req
2096. All-conference in the SCC.Copy !req
2097. All-state in the Sun-Times.Copy !req
2098. A McDonald All-American nomination.Copy !req
2099. M. V.P., 1990-1991 season,
William Gates.Copy !req
2100. When I had some real problems...Copy !req
2101. I couldn't go to
none of them about it.Copy !req
2102. You know, I was having some problems
with Catherine's family and my family...Copy !req
2103. and I said, you know, "Coach Pingatore,
their family's been getting on me about...Copy !req
2104. you know, I'm not doing this,
and I'm not doing that."Copy !req
2105. And the only thing
Coach Pingatore could say is...Copy !req
2106. "Write 'em off."Copy !req
2107. That was all he told me.Copy !req
2108. And I was, like, "What
kind of advice is that?"Copy !req
2109. Well, how's it feel to be finishing?Copy !req
2110. Uh, I mean-Copy !req
2111. Now, don't say anything
you don't mean, William.Copy !req
2112. I mean, I'm serious, Coach.
I enjoyed my four years.Copy !req
2113. I mean, we had our run-ins, and, uh -Copy !req
2114. - Who had run-ins?
- Me and you.Copy !req
2115. - We did?Copy !req
2116. - Yeah. Like that time
you made me run 75 stairs.Copy !req
2117. - I never f-
- You never forgot that.Copy !req
2118. Never.Copy !req
2119. See, you should have been
happy and enthusiasticCopy !req
2120. about doing your punishment.Copy !req
2121. But someday
you're gonna learn that, uh...Copy !req
2122. everything that was done
was for your benefit.Copy !req
2123. So that you can come
back four years from nowCopy !req
2124. and say, "Coach, you were right.Copy !req
2125. "Everything that happened
at St. Joe's helped me a lot...Copy !req
2126. and as a result I got a degree. '"Copy !req
2127. That's what I'm hoping for.Copy !req
2128. I'm going into communication...Copy !req
2129. so when you start asking for a donation,
I'll know the right way to turn you down.Copy !req
2130. I'm sure you'll never turn us down.Copy !req
2131. Ah.Copy !req
2132. I never really felt
that he bought into the system.Copy !req
2133. He was never convinced what he was
doing was the right thing to do.Copy !req
2134. But overall he had a good career-
not a great career.Copy !req
2135. It's never good-bye.Copy !req
2136. Could've been different
if the injury didn't occur.Copy !req
2137. But it did occur.Copy !req
2138. - And that was the big difference.
- I'm proud of what you did.Copy !req
2139. - Okay.
- I expect you to do a lot better.Copy !req
2140. I don't want this to be the-Copy !req
2141. - Yeah.
- You know, the highlight of your career.Copy !req
2142. You've got a lot of
bigger and better things to do.Copy !req
2143. I'll see you later.
Good luck.Copy !req
2144. Well...Copy !req
2145. another one walks out the door,
and another one comes in the door.Copy !req
2146. That's what it's all about.Copy !req
2147. It came through for me.Copy !req
2148. - Got the score I needed.
- All right.Copy !req
2149. And, hey...Copy !req
2150. I'm eligible.Copy !req
2151. You know, this is one
of the greatest feelingsCopy !req
2152. in the world. That's about it.Copy !req
2153. I mean -Copy !req
2154. After five attempts,
William's composite score of 17.5...Copy !req
2155. is rounded up to 18...Copy !req
2156. and he can finally accept a scholarship
to play at Marquette.Copy !req
2157. I think my mom...Copy !req
2158. all through high school
really, really was proud of me.Copy !req
2159. She said, "Everybody's throwing
their dreams into you...Copy !req
2160. but you got to throw
your own dreams into yourself. '"Copy !req
2161. When I gave her the diploma
after the graduation...Copy !req
2162. she was, like,
"This is it, one of my proudest moments. '"Copy !req
2163. My baby graduated.Copy !req
2164. Curtis always wanted to go to Marquette...Copy !req
2165. and his grades weren't
good enough for him to go...Copy !req
2166. and now it's like
he got the grades, you know?Copy !req
2167. Excuse me, Curtis.
You gonna give anybody else a chance?Copy !req
2168. What two countries
are we competing with for world trade?Copy !req
2169. Before Arthur can graduate,
he must pass summer school.Copy !req
2170. And for the first time in three years,
Shannon isn't there with him.Copy !req
2171. The other country, of course, we said-Copy !req
2172. he thought he could sell drugs
and don't get caught, you know.Copy !req
2173. But he found out the hard way.Copy !req
2174. And I told him, while
he was doing all that -Copy !req
2175. I wasn't hanging with Shannon then.Copy !req
2176. I was like, man, "Shannon,
you should stop, man.Copy !req
2177. Stop doing that stuff."Copy !req
2178. We always said we weren't
gonna never do no stuff like that.Copy !req
2179. We were just gonna go on
and graduate and go on to college.Copy !req
2180. But, you know, he had to be the one.Copy !req
2181. One week before his graduation,
Arthur is robbed at gunpoint.Copy !req
2182. At first I thought he was gonna shoot me
because I didn't have no money.Copy !req
2183. 'Cause he kept asking me, "You got -
You got some money. Where your wallet at?"Copy !req
2184. Be like, "What you driving
a car like this for?"Copy !req
2185. I was, like, "I ain't got no wallet."Copy !req
2186. And then, you know,
he grabbed me and stuff, and I was-Copy !req
2187. and I was about to panic and stuff,
and I just calmed down.Copy !req
2188. I sit down and had a long
talk with him and his sister.Copy !req
2189. Someone pulled a pistol on her
right down the street from the house.Copy !req
2190. I said, "Do you all
understand what is going onCopy !req
2191. out here in these streets today?'"Copy !req
2192. Even with me, when I was out there -
you know, out there strung out -Copy !req
2193. you know, I looked for somebody
that seemed like they had something.Copy !req
2194. Hmm. After this, I -Copy !req
2195. I - I'm ready.
I'm ready to leave.Copy !req
2196. 'Cause there ain't no -Copy !req
2197. Everybody up here going to jail
or-or either in drugs.Copy !req
2198. Or dead.Copy !req
2199. James Davis.Copy !req
2200. Arthur Agee.Copy !req
2201. Please hold your applause
so everyone can hear.Copy !req
2202. Christine Bowman.Copy !req
2203. Erica Byrd.Copy !req
2204. Sandra Crockett.Copy !req
2205. I never thought he would
get to the place where he's at now.Copy !req
2206. Arthur's self-esteem
was really drained from St. Joseph's.Copy !req
2207. I said, "Well, you are somebody.Copy !req
2208. "No matter where you go,
it's what you have in your heart...Copy !req
2209. that you're gonna go somewhere. '"Copy !req
2210. Come on.
Move out of the way, boy.Copy !req
2211. Everybody out there, there's gonna beCopy !req
2212. a party tonight. There's
gonna be a party tonight.Copy !req
2213. You know it.Copy !req
2214. These flame-broiled burgers -Copy !req
2215. It's scary, man. I'm telling you.Copy !req
2216. I'm telling you the truth.
Scary generation, man.Copy !req
2217. - I thought you might
hit me in my head, fool.Copy !req
2218. - I didn't hit you in your head.Copy !req
2219. To my son.Copy !req
2220. I hope you pursue all your dreams
and your desires...Copy !req
2221. that you have within you.Copy !req
2222. I love you very much.Copy !req
2223. - Ooh, that is so nice.
- Whatever.Copy !req
2224. Oh, no.!Copy !req
2225. God, we thank you
for this day, Lord.Copy !req
2226. And we ask you to
go with junior, Lord.Copy !req
2227. And we thank you, Lord. Go with him
as he try to better his education, Lord.Copy !req
2228. And we thank you for him
for coming this far.Copy !req
2229. We came this far by faith, Lord.Copy !req
2230. And we ask you, Father,
when he get in college, Lord...Copy !req
2231. to keep him, Lord-
keep him protected.Copy !req
2232. We thank you for him, Jesus.Copy !req
2233. - In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
- Amen.Copy !req
2234. Oh, you can cry like a river, girl.Copy !req
2235. You're crying so bad,
I won't even make fun of you.Copy !req
2236. Oh, God.Copy !req
2237. - I'm gonna miss you.
- I'll miss you too.Copy !req
2238. I want you to be good, okay?Copy !req
2239. And don't, uh, get mixed up in
none of that old stuff that, uh, you know.Copy !req
2240. I done told you what to do.Copy !req
2241. Don't get no alcohol, no wine coolers.Copy !req
2242. None of that stuff.Copy !req
2243. Bye-bye.Copy !req
2244. I just hope he stay in there.
That's what worries me most.Copy !req
2245. Once he get in the door,
I want him to stay in there for four years.Copy !req
2246. Think he gonna make it?Copy !req
2247. You do?Copy !req
2248. I think he gonna make it.Copy !req
2249. Well, I hope so anyway.Copy !req
2250. When I was young-When I was little,
that's all I used to think about-the NBA.Copy !req
2251. If I set my mind, I can - I can go.Copy !req
2252. I can st - I can go.Copy !req
2253. Get in good college. I can go.Copy !req
2254. But if I don't, you know, I ain't gonna be
no drug dealer, you know...Copy !req
2255. cry about it,
come back and, you know...Copy !req
2256. stick up gas stations
or nothing like that, you know.Copy !req
2257. Probably go into comedian or architecture,
something like that.Copy !req
2258. You don't think that
you'll have the kind ofCopy !req
2259. tough times like your
dad's been through?Copy !req
2260. No.Copy !req
2261. I can't say-I can't say that I will.
I can't say that I don't. I don't know.Copy !req
2262. Four years ago, that's allCopy !req
2263. I used to dream about
was playing in the NBA.Copy !req
2264. I don't really dream about it
like that anymore.Copy !req
2265. You know, even though...Copy !req
2266. I love playing basketball, but, you know...Copy !req
2267. I want to do other things
with my life too.Copy !req
2268. - Say, "hi, Daddy. '"
- Hi, Daddy.Copy !req
2269. - "how you doing?'"
- How you doing?Copy !req
2270. - Say, "I love you. '"
- I love you.Copy !req
2271. If I had to stop playing basketball
right now, I think I'd still be happy.Copy !req
2272. - I think I would.
- Thank you, Daddy.Copy !req
2273. - Where'd Daddy get to?
- Uh, Marquette.Copy !req
2274. Marquette?Copy !req
2275. That's why when
somebody say, you know...Copy !req
2276. "When you get to the NBA,Copy !req
2277. don't forget about me,
'"and all that stuff...Copy !req
2278. I should say to them,
"Well, if I don't make it,Copy !req
2279. watch you don't forget about me. '"Copy !req