Hoop Dreams
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and others of you will not make it.
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This is summer for them.
They don't wanna be sitting in a classroom.

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But we provide them with an experience...
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you can't get anywhere else...
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in that we simulate what it's going
to be like to be a student athlete.

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Fifteen hours a week for basketball.
how many hours do we have up here?

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The statistics on Division I players
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graduating from college
are really frightening.

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Let's assume you're playing
big-time college basketball...

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and your team travels-
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You have to realize...
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that nobody cares about you.
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You're black,
you're a young male.

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All you're supposed to do
is deal drugs and mug women.

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The only reason why you're here-
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you can make their team win.
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If their team wins...
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these schools get a lot of money.
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This whole thing
is revolving around money.

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Recruiting is like
any other sales business.

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We've gotta win to keep our jobs.
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We've gotta fill the arena
to keep our jobs.

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And if we don't, they fire us.
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I mean, that's - hey, if bankers
don't make money, they fire them.

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When you look at some of these young boys'
bodies, they got NBA bodies already.

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There's one particular kid
who's here now...

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I've watched him since sixth grade;
I've watched him blossom.

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That's when you wanna get on 'em -
when they're young -

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and start writin' 'em
before everybody else writes 'em.

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Try to get any edge you can
in this business.

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It's already become a meat market.
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But I try to - to, uh, do my job...

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