Hoop Dreams
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2:18:05
Nearly four years
2:18:07
after discovering Arthur
on the playground...

2:18:10
Earl Smith shows up to see Arthur win
his first play-off game.

2:18:15
I figured this game and the next game
may be his last high school ball game.

2:18:24
- Where you been, man?
- Where I been?

2:18:27
- Yeah. Where you been?
- I've been workin'.

2:18:29
- Oh, yeah, right.
- I've been following you in the paper.

2:18:32
- Oh, yeah. You impressed or somethin'?
- Yeah. I'm impressed. I'm here, ain't I?

2:18:36
- If I wasn't, I wouldn't have followed you.
- You been talking to Ping?

2:18:40
- For what?
- You don't talk to him no more?

2:18:43
- Why not?
- What do I have to talk to him about?

2:18:46
- Well,Jamal -
- You ain't there.

2:18:49
- Yeah, you're right. I had to break out.
- Yeah.

2:18:54
So I was thinkin' about goin' tonight
to see, uh, St. Joe and Nazareth play...

2:19:00
but I wasn't sure
if you had time to do it.

2:19:06
Yeah.
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I've got a bitter taste in my mouth
about a lot of things that happened.

2:19:15
A lot of people accuse me
of taking youngsters...

2:19:20
out of the inner city and taking them out
to St. Joe high School...

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and they ask
what did I get out of the deal and...

2:19:26
a lot of racial slurs and so forth from
my own people about me, about what I did.

2:19:32
I still felt and feel
that I was doing the right thing...

2:19:37
for that particular time.
2:19:39
Uh, sometimes I have second thoughts...
2:19:43
when I see the net results
of what happened with the youngsters.


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