Gates' daughter was born when he was 17, during his junior year of high school. Trying to be a father and student while rehabilitating from two knee surgeries to make it as the next Isiah Thomas -- the former St Joe's and NBA star who makes a cameo in the movie -- became too much to bear.
By the movie's final scene, with his passion for the game already waning, Gates remarks, "When somebody says, 'When you get to the NBA, don't forget about me,' I should say to them, 'Well if I don't make it, you don't forget about me.
It's no wonder he needed a break from the sport by his third year at Marquette. Agee had his own growing up to do, with his academics thrown into disarray after his brief spell at St Joe's, followed by Bo walking out and his mother Sheila losing her job. In one scene, Sheila cannot pay her electricity bill and the family is left without power, while a clearly humiliated Agee broods at the camera. The filmmakers pitched in to get the power back on, leaving that detail out of the film.
Agee transferred to Marshall High, leading the team on an improbable city championship and state semifinal run. In recent years the public high school has been rocked by gun violence , leaving seven former basketball players dead and two paralyzed, including Agee's ex-teammate Shawn Harrington.
Joe's defeat me; I didn't let my neighborhood and my environment pull me in to gain drugs, carrying the guns -- that whole lifestyle," Agee reflects. It helped that the teenagers had the right people on their sides. Gates and Agee admit they were given cash during their basketball ascent by the likes of so-called street agents, drug dealers and university affiliates who often helped promising players.
While at Arkansas State, he says a "big street pharmacist" whose team he played for in a high school summer league bought him a car.
They figured out how to get it to you," he says. That's the way it was. In response, Marquette said it "is committed to the highest ethical standards for the recruitment and retention of our student-athletes," while Arkansas State said it had no knowledge of Agee's car purchase and that "there are too many unknown variables to comment further about a relationship from approximately 25 years ago. Arthur Agee was recruited to play at St Joseph's prep school as an eighth grader.
A year later he was asked to leave, and his parents were billed for tuition they struggled to pay for.
Visit CNN. Somewhat fittingly, Gates is now a full-time coach in the Amateur Athletic Union AAU , the collection of summer leagues that insiders say has replaced high school basketball as the launching pad for college prospects. AAU has come under fire by an ongoing FBI investigation involving sneaker companies funneling money towards recruits to land at big university programs. Multiple federal investigations have led to guilty pleas from four college assistants on bribery charges, the conviction of an Adidas executive, and the firing of Pitino from Louisville.
Pitino maintains he had "no knowledge" of infractions during his tenure as Louisville's head coach. With athletic wear companies paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to support top AAU programs, the potential to use them as a means to distribute money to the families of top players or an influential coach is high, says Sokolove. These teams can be used as pass through," he says, adding that the ultimate goal is to breed loyalty with players who become walking advertisements for the shoe companies on the court.
The stakes have become much higher to land top recruits like Gates was in the days of "Hoop Dreams," notes Sokolove. Like many around the sport, Gates thinks college players need to get paid. Gates sees the current NBA age requirement of 19 as an obstacle towards paying black athletes, calling it a "controlled corruption" not seen in mostly white sports like baseball, tennis, golf or soccer.
The NFL enforces a three-year rule before most college football players can turn pro. Most important, Arthur knows the value of role models and how it helped him achieve his dreams, not only on the court, but more important, in life. Arthur has realized another dream; he has started a sportswear clothing line named after the movie Hoop Dreams.
The documentary follows the lives of two talented teenage basketball players, Arthur Agee and William Gates, who aspired to leave behind their deprived Chicago neighborhoods and pursue their passion to make it to the NBA. Their complicated family and professional lives, however, moved them towards unexpected outcomes, devoid of NBA stardom. In this presentation, Arthur Agee brings the audience into the intimate world of Hoop Dreams , and using his own experiences, helps paint a vivid picture of the Chicago ghetto and the socio-economic variables that challenged his family and community.
Agee demonstrates to audiences what it takes to face adversity and helps define true resilience. How if one family member is going through a period of trouble, others seem to rise to periods of strength. He conducts a pair of two-honor sports and news shows each week on the campus Arkansas State radio station… He is majoring in radio-television and is learning about marketing and public relations.
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