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♪ energetic hip-hop ♪

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[Kevin Durant]
I come from a small county

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outside of Washington, D.C.,

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called PG County.

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♪♪♪

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♪ Blow your mind ♪

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[man] There's always been
great players...

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[announcer] Head
to Jeff Green. Oh--

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[announcers overlapping]

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[man] ...from
Prince George's County.

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[announcer]
What a finish for KD!

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[man] Players
from Prince George's County--

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they can fill it up.

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PG County guys

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provide wet buckets
for America.

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- [announcer] Here's Beasley.
- [announcer] Beasley!

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[announcer] Jeff Green!

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[man] You can come here
and get ate up,

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or you can eat
and become successful.

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[announcer]
Oladipo pounds it down!

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[overlaid announcers]
With the ninth pick...

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With the fifth...
With the second pick...

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The Miami Heat...
The Seattle SuperSonics...

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The Philadelphia '76ers

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select Markelle Fultz,

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Victor Oladipo,

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Michael Beasley,

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Kevin Durant.

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[announcer] Durant finishes
with a left hand.

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Almost every other NBA game,

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there's somebody
that I'm playing against

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that's from PG County.

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Always like, "Oh, you know
he from home?"

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Like, "Damn, him too?"

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I just love
to see that, you know.

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[Nolan] We were friends.
We were enemies.

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Basketball, to this county,
means everything.

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It's just something
about the water we drink.

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It gotta be in the water.

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It's just in the water.
This is what we do.

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[announcer] Durant!

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♪♪♪

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♪ soft music ♪

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[Jerai] If somebody asked me

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where's
Prince George's County,

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it's the heart of Maryland.

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♪♪♪

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Not to get too metaphorical
or whatever,

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but it's this heartbeat.

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♪ hip-hop music ♪

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[narrator] Bordering
the nation's capital,

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Prince George's County,

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once home
to tobacco plantations,

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is divided into two zones
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locally known
as the Capital Beltway.

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The outer Beltway holds

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some of the richest
black-majority towns

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in the nation,

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while many inner
Beltway communities

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face high rates
of poverty and crime.

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But the obsession that unifies
this Maryland county

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is basketball.

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The shared passion, style,
and success is undeniable.

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Ask anyone from the county.
They'll let you know.

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[Marissa] It's the Mecca
of basketball.

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Wherever you go, you mention
Prince George's County,

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people--people know
what it's about.

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♪♪♪

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Basketball's always bouncing
in--in PG County.

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[Beasley] First time
I touched a basketball,

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Hilltop Gardens.

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I-I must have been
like three years old.

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First thing I remember:
I'm lookin' up...

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...and I couldn't get the ball
to the basket.

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Like...I tried
all fucking day...

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...just throwing it,
throwing it, until finally

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I threw it like this
and finally made one.

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♪ Perhaps the most
famous classic ♪

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It's been
the only thing in my life

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these 30 years
that's consistent.

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Once I committed
to playing basketball

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and wanting to play basketball
for, like, forever--

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I was, like, nine--

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it was like breathing.

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[Beasley] Ever since we've
been playing basketball,

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me and KD
been best friends.

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If I'm on Branch Avenue

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and I hear about a game
down in Farm,

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I'ma call KD,

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who's all the way up in
Marlboro at the time...

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♪ heavy music ♪

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♪♪♪

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[players shouting,
whistle blows]

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[onlooker]
Oh, my goodness!

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[Beasley] Became a norm
to where--just hoop

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every three, four times a day.

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It go from that to this...

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[announcer] Here is Durant

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- [buzzer]
- for the win!

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Kevin Durant

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has won it at the buzzer!

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[narrator] Since 2000,
over 30 NBA players,

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multiple WNBA stars,

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and hundreds
of Division I college players

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have come from PG County.

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The seeds were planted
over a century ago

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in nearby Washington, D.C.,

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where African-Americans
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then transformed
the art of basketball.

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♪♪♪

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[McAdams]
This area was the first

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to master
the game of basketball,

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thanks to Dr. Edwin
Bancroft Henderson,

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the first black
physical educator

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in the nation.

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[narrator] Edwin B. Henderson
hoped basketball

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would boost college access
and social mobility

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for black youth.

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The so-called
Father of Black Basketball

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had learned the sport
from its creator,

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James Naismith,
while attending

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a Harvard University
sports and recreation program

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in 1904.

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[McAdams] Henderson brought
the game back to D.C.,

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went to the black Y,

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which is known
as the historic 12th Street Y,

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and that was the venue

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of basketball
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as it pertains
to African-Americans.

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♪♪♪

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[Pennington] He thought
if we had an athletic skill,

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we could utilize that
to get into good white schools

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in America.

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A lot of racism
goes out the window

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when you're competing
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to win games.

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[McAdams]
D.C. had a leg up

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because of Dr. Henderson.

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The fundamentals

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and the proper way
to play the game

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were taught to the youngsters
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[narrator] Henderson's players
won championships.

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Some even changed the world,
like Charles Drew,

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who later created
the world's first blood bank

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as a trailblazing physician,

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and Edward Duke Ellington,

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the composer who'd go on
to redefine American music.

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Though legal segregation

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prevailed
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D.C.'s black community

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built a thriving city
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anchored by institutions
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and the U Street
business corridor.

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This relative stability
was shattered in 1968

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by a tragedy
that shook the nation.

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[Robert Kennedy]
I have some very sad news

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for all of you...

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...and I think sad news for
all of our fellow citizens...

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...and people who love peace
all over the world...

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♪ dramatic music ♪

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...and that is that
Martin Luther King

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was shot
and was killed tonight

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in Memphis, Tennessee.

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[crowd exclaims]

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[narrator] In the wake

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of Martin Luther King's
assassination,

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Washington, D.C., erupted.

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The riots would claim
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destroy countless businesses,

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and spark an exodus
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African-Americans to suburban
Prince George's County.

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♪ disquieting music ♪

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♪♪♪

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Each generation
wants a better life

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for a subsequent generation,

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and during that time,
the opportunity

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was in
the Prince George's County.

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[Brown] Many African-Americans
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and one of the offshoots
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is that you had a number
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who were
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now starting to go
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[narrator] From D.C.,
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and deep knowledge
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They also found

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an ideal environment
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a county with one of the
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Prince George's County
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and in most of those parks,

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you have basketball courts,

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and you can get out there
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and you can raise
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based upon the competition

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that you receive
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[Kevin] Every summer,
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you know,
we was playing outdoors

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on that blacktop.

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As soon as I woke up,

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I was going downstairs
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across the street
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We got that competition
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It was very competitive.

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For me, it was a young kid

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walking on the court
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And you had to go in there
and prove to the older adults

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that we belong on this court.

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[overlapping chatter]

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You could virtually ride
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and any basketball court
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would be packed.

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[Steve] I love basketball
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It was like an amusement park,

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'cause you could learn
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every single day from somebody.

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[Adrian] First of all, you'd
better get into court early.

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If you're not there at 9:00,

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you might not play
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and if you lost a game,
you might as well go home.

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If we were playing
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there were no lights.

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Guys that drove
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so we could finish a game.

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[people talking indistinctly]

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And so if you lose,

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and you--
and you're not good,

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you know, they might say
you're not playing no more.

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[Walt] So that sense
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you know, was always there.

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[Mike] You fought
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I mean,
there was definitely blood.

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Game point was gonna take
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Like, you were gonna get
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[Jeff] The county definitely
gives you a tough edge.

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Fighting to hold your spot,

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being able to stay on the court
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and holding your own--

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I mean, everybody will say
that's everywhere,

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but for us,
we lived by that.

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♪ dramatic music ♪

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If PG County
was a basketball player,

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he'd be tough...

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[announcer]
Here is Lawson for the win!

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Ty Lawson, game winner!

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[Jerai] ...be gritty...

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[announcer] Mismatch
with Jordan, cross over,

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Jack jumper...

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[announcer] He's got it!

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One point, three to play.

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[Jerai] ...a student
of the game.

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[announcer] Picks him up
on the switch.

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- Shot clock at five.
- [crowd] Defense!

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Kevin Durant way outside.

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Delivers!
Kevin Durant from downtown!

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♪♪♪

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[Beasley] That competitive
edge right there, just--

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it's nothing that you can do
to stop this.

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Like, this ass-whooping
gonna come.

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[announcer] 4.7 seconds.

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Villanova trying to go
the length of the court

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with Arcidiacono.

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Three seconds at midcourt.

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Gives it to Jenkins
for the championship!

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I've shot
those same exact shots

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hundreds of thousands
of times.

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I--it's hard to count.

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♪ light music ♪

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[Nate] And what I knew was,

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everyone at home

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and everyone that knows Kris

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knows this game was over.

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♪♪♪

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[announcer] Jenkins...

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♪♪♪

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Kris Jenkins is gonna live
the rest of his life

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as a folk hero.

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[Kris] I don't think
it's no secret

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as to why we have
hundreds of kids in college

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and in the NCAA tournament
every year

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from this area
playing basketball.

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[Brenda] I recruit
all over the country.

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The players in PG County
are second to none.

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[announcer]
And this has turned

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into the kind of a game
we expected all night.

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Jump shot is good
by Coleman!

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We produce the best
men's basketball players

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in the country
in Prince George's County,

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so playing against those guys
growing up--

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it's only gonna elevate
my game.

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[Brenda] You know,
those players have

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the toughness, the grit,

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um, and all the intangibles
to help you win.

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[all cheering]

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[chatter, ball bouncing]

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[narrator] In 1956,
DeMatha Catholic High School

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hired a young history teacher
as its basketball coach.

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Under Morgan Wootten,
DeMatha would create

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a powerful and enduring
PG County institution.

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We have here
Morgan Wootten,

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the coach
of DeMatha High School.

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Greatest coach

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probably in the history
of high school basketball.

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[McAdams]
Morgan comes to DeMatha,

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and he decided,
"I'm gonna play

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the best players
I can get ahold of.

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I don't care
if they're black or white.

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I'm playing the best players."

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[coach] All right, fellas.
Machine gun drill.

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Let's go.
Get 'em on.

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[man] Every player
in the last 15 years

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that has been a senior
at DeMatha High School

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has won a college scholarship.

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You have players who believe

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that they can change their life

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by playing basketball.

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♪♪♪

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Of course
he's gonna influence,

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because if you're
a black person

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growing up in the '50s
or '60s,

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and you want to better
your life,

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you do that through sports,

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and sports gets you,
you know, a college education.

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[man] You talk
about a winning tradition.

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517 wins, 75 losses.

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He treated us with dignity,

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and you had so much respect
and love for Coach Wootten,

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you never wanted
to let him down.

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[Adrian] When I was
in middle school,

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I said to myself,

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"Hey, I want to go to DeMatha.

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I wanna play for Coach Wooten."

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[narrator]
DeMatha made a big leap

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from regional power
to elite national program

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back in 1965
when it faced Power Memorial,

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a New York team
considered invincible.

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I don't think
that I am engaging in hyperbole

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when I talk
about the significance

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to PG County

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when DeMatha High School

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hosted the biggest
high school basketball game

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at that time

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against Power Memorial
High School

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from New York City,

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that had a 7'1" ball player
on their team

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then known by the name
of Lew Alcindor,

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also known
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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Power Memorial High School

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was on a 71-game win streak.

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They were phenomenal.

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We'd won about 30-some
in a row.

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Our last loss had been to Power
the year before,

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when Kareem was a junior.

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But now here he was a senior,

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never having been beaten
in high school.

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[Brown] 12,500 packed
into that arena.

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♪♪♪

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[Morgan] Time Magazine
was there,

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and  Newsweek  was there,

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the TV stations were there,
radio, and so on.

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And so for the first time,
here's a high school game

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that's getting
national attention.

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♪ slow hip-hop instrumental ♪

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[Pennington]
I like to say this

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for all the cats
who love New York City.

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I love your city,

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but when New York City
comes south,

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they go home with Ls.

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♪♪♪

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DeMatha caught 'em sleeping.

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46-43, sent them
up the parkway.

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♪♪♪

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[narrator]
As the years rolled by,

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nothing changed
for DeMatha basketball.

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It remained a force
to be reckoned with.

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♪ dynamic music ♪

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On my high school team,
we had five guys make the NBA.

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[Jerami]
Our sophomore year,

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I was about sixth
or seventh man.

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Everybody that year
went D-I.

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That's about six pros
on that team.

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This is where I learned
how to become a man.

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This is where I learned
the beauty of teamwork,

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the beauty of being a part

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of something bigger
than yourself.

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[crowd cheering]

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[narrator] The county
hosted the first-ever

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high school
all-star basketball game

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with a team of local all-stars

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facing the best of the best
from the rest of the U.S.

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♪ Instrumental music ♪

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The first Capital Classic,
the inaugural game,

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1974 at the Capital Center,

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was in Prince George's County.

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[John] That was important.

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That was very big
in PG County.

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The whole perception
becomes a lot bigger.

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The Capital Classic
was something

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that you wanted to be
a part of,

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the area all-stars
versus the USA all-stars.

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The great players
from around the country

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would come in and play.

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It was something
you marked on your calendar.

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[announcer] You take it
to the bucket that strong,

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you're gonna be in business.

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[announcer] These great stars
played in the Cap Classic:

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Magic Johnson,
now with the Lakers,

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and of course, Michael Jordan
of the Chicago Bulls,

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[Rob]
Being from this area,

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being able to play
in that game, meant everything.

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You have a national stage
in your backyard.

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We're some of the best players
in the world,

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and we prove it by beating
the U.S. team

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a number of times.

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♪♪♪

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[Rob] It just really goes
to show you--

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I mean, should the DMV
really be able

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to hang with a group of guys

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that's considered the best
in the country?

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[narrator]
The 1982 Capital All-Stars

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featured a powerful forward
from PG County's

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Northwestern High School.

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A co-MVP performance set off
a national recruiting frenzy,

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but he stayed in PG County

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to play for
the University of Maryland.

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His name?
Len Bias.

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♪♪♪

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[announcer] Nice throw
by Lenny Bias!

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[announcer] Lenny Bias
has already signed

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with the University
of Maryland to play next year.

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He is
a high school all-American.

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Here's a guy who--
you know, he went through

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Prince George's County
public schools,

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played the University
of Maryland.

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He was gonna be our first star.

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[announcer]
Bias with a rebound.

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What a jam.

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Lenny Bias was the beast.

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[announcer] Bias--in!
Len Bias.

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I think it was one
of my first games in the ACC,

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00:17:27.791 --> 00:17:29.541
and the first play...

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...he dunked on me.

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[announcer]
Bias with a big jam.

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[announcer] Lenny Bias.

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He said, "Welcome to the ACC."

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I love to dunk.
It's something I did

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00:17:39.583 --> 00:17:40.791
ever since I was
in junior high school,

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and I just keep on doing it.

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[Danny] You know, he was just
a different player

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than pretty much everyone
out there,

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and, uh, I have a ton
of respect for him.

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[announcer] Cross-court pass,
and listen to those fans.

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Everything with him
was just easy,

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like just came natural.

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[announcer] Bias.
What a shooter.

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It was like--like
the prodigal son here.

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♪♪♪

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He belonged to everybody.

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♪♪♪

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Larry Bird said
that if we draft Bias,

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he's gonna come up
to the rookie camp.

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- [man laughs]
- That's right.

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He is very, very high on Bias.

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The Boston Celtics

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select Len Bias
of the University of Maryland.

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[announcer] There he is.
Len Bias.

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[man] Interesting.
Your career--

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it's been sensational
at the University of Maryland.

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Can you look back on that
and just reflect a bit?

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[Len] Well, when I look back,
I see, like, a flower.

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You know how you plant
a flower,

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a tulip or something,

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and you put it there
one summer,

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and you wait summers
and summers,

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it just keep blooming
and blooming?

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Each year, I think I've
progressed more and more.

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I probably wish I had
one more year

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just to progress a little more,

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but I don't have any more time.

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♪♪♪

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[anchorwoman] Len Bias,
the Maryland University

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basketball star

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on his way to becoming

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a world-champion Boston Celtic,

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died of
an apparent heart attack today

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at Leland Memorial Hospital
in Prince George's County.

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Mr. Bias died
of cocaine intoxication.

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He had a sensitivity
to cocaine

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at this particular level

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that affected his heart
and caused a cardiac arrest.

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Quite naturally, uh,
the first day,

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it was extremely tough
for his, uh--his family.

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His mother and father
were completely distraught.

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[sobbing]

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[Steve]
I can remember driving back

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on University Boulevard
on that campus

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and just seeing the ambulances
and just seeing the tragedy.

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Everybody that I knew
at a young age

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was destroyed.

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♪ somber music ♪

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♪♪♪

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[man] Brother James,
being consoled

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by the Reverend Jesse Jackson,
was hardest hit.

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[wailing]

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We needed heroes.
We needed people like Lenny.

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♪♪♪

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[Keith] I think
that was probably

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one of the most tragic things
and impactful things

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00:20:02.416 --> 00:20:03.875
that happened in this area.

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00:20:03.959 --> 00:20:06.290
That's like a--
a part of my family

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is gone right there.

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[narrator] The tragedy
resonated

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far beyond PG County.

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00:20:11.083 --> 00:20:14.333
Within days, Bias,
the can't-miss NBA star,

515
00:20:14.416 --> 00:20:15.834
became a cautionary tale

516
00:20:15.916 --> 00:20:18.875
and an omen of crack cocaine's
looming devastation.

517
00:20:18.959 --> 00:20:20.625
But in Prince George's County,

518
00:20:20.709 --> 00:20:24.040
Len Bias remains
an iconic figure.

519
00:20:24.125 --> 00:20:26.165
It hurt, you know.
You--you lost a legend

520
00:20:26.250 --> 00:20:27.000
in this city,

521
00:20:27.083 --> 00:20:28.000
and you gotta realize,

522
00:20:28.083 --> 00:20:30.125
that was 32 years ago, almost,

523
00:20:30.208 --> 00:20:31.500
and we're still talking
about it,

524
00:20:31.583 --> 00:20:32.125
you know,
and you'll never stop

525
00:20:32.208 --> 00:20:33.458
talking about Len Bias.

526
00:20:42.583 --> 00:20:45.458
[sirens wailing]

527
00:20:45.541 --> 00:20:48.458
♪ tense music ♪

528
00:20:48.541 --> 00:20:49.500
♪♪♪

529
00:20:49.583 --> 00:20:53.165
[Pennington] In the '80s,
cocaine became crack.

530
00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:55.666
It became more
of big business.

531
00:20:55.750 --> 00:20:57.709
[Parris] The crack epidemic--

532
00:20:57.791 --> 00:21:00.208
it was often associated
with income,

533
00:21:00.290 --> 00:21:02.416
and it was major.
We actually called it

534
00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:03.541
the crack wars.

535
00:21:03.625 --> 00:21:05.083
You know, you turn on
the news at night,

536
00:21:05.165 --> 00:21:07.709
and you'd hear, you know,
there's shooting.

537
00:21:07.791 --> 00:21:10.208
There's drug busts.

538
00:21:10.290 --> 00:21:12.500
You know, there's violence.

539
00:21:12.583 --> 00:21:13.583
[Kevin]
Here in our neighborhoods,

540
00:21:13.666 --> 00:21:16.875
you got that--basically zombies
walking around here

541
00:21:16.959 --> 00:21:19.208
to, you know, get their fix,

542
00:21:19.290 --> 00:21:21.208
so it was just like--
that spread around the suburbs

543
00:21:21.290 --> 00:21:23.000
of PG County.

544
00:21:23.083 --> 00:21:26.791
[man] Just say no to drugs.

545
00:21:26.875 --> 00:21:28.040
[Ricky] During the crack years,
I mean, our--

546
00:21:28.125 --> 00:21:30.791
we had no real vision

547
00:21:30.875 --> 00:21:33.290
into what a future
could look like.

548
00:21:33.375 --> 00:21:34.458
We were surviving.

549
00:21:34.541 --> 00:21:37.333
♪ suspenseful music ♪

550
00:21:37.416 --> 00:21:38.959
[Kevin] I was always watching
my back

551
00:21:39.040 --> 00:21:41.290
'cause you was hearing stories

552
00:21:41.375 --> 00:21:42.375
about dudes getting jumped

553
00:21:42.458 --> 00:21:44.125
or somebody
getting shot at.

554
00:21:44.208 --> 00:21:46.083
So you always on the defensive,
even as a kid.

555
00:21:46.165 --> 00:21:47.666
[indistinct chatter]

556
00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:49.000
[sirens passing]

557
00:21:49.083 --> 00:21:51.959
[Steve] Being from this area,
you have to have tough skin.

558
00:21:52.040 --> 00:21:54.208
It's those scary hours
when you're coming

559
00:21:54.290 --> 00:21:55.916
from that basketball court
by yourself,

560
00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:57.666
when you're dribbling
that ball at night

561
00:21:57.750 --> 00:22:01.125
and you gotta walk
by the big boys.

562
00:22:01.208 --> 00:22:02.583
You see the environment
that you're in,

563
00:22:02.666 --> 00:22:04.083
you try and stay away
from that stuff,

564
00:22:04.165 --> 00:22:05.541
but it's just--you're just
immersed in it,

565
00:22:05.625 --> 00:22:07.083
and it is what it is.

566
00:22:07.165 --> 00:22:08.750
[man] Hands behind your back!
That's all you're told to do.

567
00:22:08.834 --> 00:22:12.959
♪♪♪

568
00:22:13.040 --> 00:22:13.959
As a parent,
you got more involved

569
00:22:14.083 --> 00:22:15.583
to make sure your kid
didn't get involved

570
00:22:15.666 --> 00:22:16.541
in those same things.

571
00:22:16.625 --> 00:22:18.165
We wanted to get the young men

572
00:22:18.250 --> 00:22:21.500
off the street, uh,
get them in the gym.

573
00:22:21.583 --> 00:22:23.416
[Mike] Especially in PG County,

574
00:22:23.500 --> 00:22:25.250
I do not believe
that you can

575
00:22:25.333 --> 00:22:27.458
just dismiss or ignore

576
00:22:27.541 --> 00:22:30.750
why the game of basketball
went indoors.

577
00:22:30.834 --> 00:22:34.333
♪♪♪

578
00:22:34.416 --> 00:22:36.290
[man] Basketball was
definitely used as a weapon

579
00:22:36.375 --> 00:22:40.458
to keep you from going
down the wrong tracks.

580
00:22:40.541 --> 00:22:41.541
[Ronnie]
Prince George's County made

581
00:22:41.625 --> 00:22:44.125
a committed decision to invest
in our youth.

582
00:22:44.208 --> 00:22:47.541
We have over 46
community centers.

583
00:22:47.625 --> 00:22:49.709
[Bianca] Prince George's
County Parks and Rec

584
00:22:49.791 --> 00:22:50.791
has done an exceptional job

585
00:22:50.875 --> 00:22:54.290
making sure the quality of life
that we live here

586
00:22:54.375 --> 00:22:56.709
also includes
quality recreation.

587
00:22:56.791 --> 00:23:02.000
♪♪♪

588
00:23:02.583 --> 00:23:04.416
I can remember my gym,

589
00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:06.290
uh, Peppermill Rec,
which was

590
00:23:06.375 --> 00:23:07.959
one of the better rec centers.

591
00:23:08.040 --> 00:23:08.959
[Jeff] I was in

592
00:23:09.040 --> 00:23:10.666
North Brentwood
Community rec center.

593
00:23:10.750 --> 00:23:13.000
Um, that's where the rise

594
00:23:13.083 --> 00:23:15.250
of Jeff Green started
as a basketball player.

595
00:23:15.333 --> 00:23:16.916
[Beverly] Whenever you mention

596
00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:19.290
basketball
and Prince George's County,

597
00:23:19.375 --> 00:23:21.040
you can't leave out
the Boys & Girls Clubs.

598
00:23:21.125 --> 00:23:23.333
[Sweetney] That was all I knew.

599
00:23:23.416 --> 00:23:24.000
I went from my house

600
00:23:24.083 --> 00:23:26.709
to the gyms to the school,

601
00:23:26.791 --> 00:23:28.333
and that's pretty much it.

602
00:23:28.416 --> 00:23:30.165
[Kevin] My mom just wanted me
to get out of the house.

603
00:23:30.250 --> 00:23:33.375
After she bought me
a Grant Hill Pistons jersey,

604
00:23:33.458 --> 00:23:34.791
we went to Seat Pleasant,

605
00:23:34.875 --> 00:23:36.583
and I just got a rec card,

606
00:23:36.666 --> 00:23:39.500
and one of the coaches
in the rec center

607
00:23:39.583 --> 00:23:41.750
took a liking to my game
and my size,

608
00:23:41.834 --> 00:23:43.875
and he put me on the floor,

609
00:23:43.959 --> 00:23:46.666
and it was just natural
after that.

610
00:23:46.750 --> 00:23:48.541
At our rec center,
everybody came there,

611
00:23:48.625 --> 00:23:50.750
no matter if you played ball
or not.

612
00:23:50.834 --> 00:23:53.583
It was just like
a headquarters.

613
00:23:53.666 --> 00:23:55.333
My home court, 100 percent,

614
00:23:55.416 --> 00:23:57.333
would be
the Run N' Shoot gym

615
00:23:57.416 --> 00:23:58.416
in District Heights, Maryland.

616
00:23:58.500 --> 00:24:01.375
♪ upbeat music ♪

617
00:24:01.458 --> 00:24:04.333
♪♪♪

618
00:24:04.416 --> 00:24:08.165
Run N' Shoot
came to town...

619
00:24:08.250 --> 00:24:09.375
you got 20 basketball courts.

620
00:24:09.458 --> 00:24:12.375
Ain't nobody gotta wait
for next.

621
00:24:12.458 --> 00:24:13.916
[Kevin] You walk
in the Run N' Shoot,

622
00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:14.959
yeah, all you see is courts.
Nothing else.

623
00:24:15.040 --> 00:24:17.208
They had food in there,

624
00:24:17.290 --> 00:24:18.709
they had the barber shop
in there,

625
00:24:18.791 --> 00:24:20.375
they had classes in the back,

626
00:24:20.458 --> 00:24:22.250
but it was all about the hoops
in there.

627
00:24:22.333 --> 00:24:24.333
That was the meetup spot,

628
00:24:24.416 --> 00:24:25.750
and that was life

629
00:24:25.834 --> 00:24:27.709
from seventh grade up until...

630
00:24:27.791 --> 00:24:31.165
I was in third, fourth
year in the league.

631
00:24:31.250 --> 00:24:32.583
Know everybody.

632
00:24:32.666 --> 00:24:35.165
Especially when you play
basketball,

633
00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:36.250
one day, you need
an extra quarter

634
00:24:36.333 --> 00:24:38.333
for the soda machine,

635
00:24:38.416 --> 00:24:40.165
and that's how the friendships

636
00:24:40.250 --> 00:24:43.541
and the camaraderie build.

637
00:24:43.625 --> 00:24:48.083
Having that sense of security,
that blanket,

638
00:24:48.165 --> 00:24:48.875
you know,
everybody under the blanket

639
00:24:48.959 --> 00:24:51.290
became family.

640
00:24:51.375 --> 00:24:53.165
[narrator] With youth players
honing their skills

641
00:24:53.250 --> 00:24:55.333
in PG County gyms
and rec centers,

642
00:24:55.416 --> 00:24:57.250
the coaches put together
organized traveling squads

643
00:24:57.333 --> 00:24:59.165
better known as AAU teams.

644
00:24:59.250 --> 00:25:03.875
[onlookers cheering]

645
00:25:03.959 --> 00:25:07.290
AAU is a place where--you know,
that's the big stage...

646
00:25:07.375 --> 00:25:09.750
[man] Oh!

647
00:25:09.834 --> 00:25:11.834
Hey, Q, you made
the tape, baby!

648
00:25:11.916 --> 00:25:12.583
You made the tape!

649
00:25:12.666 --> 00:25:14.583
...where you bring every ounce

650
00:25:14.666 --> 00:25:15.083
of ammo that you have

651
00:25:15.165 --> 00:25:17.458
to these games.

652
00:25:17.541 --> 00:25:18.959
[woman] Let's go!
Let's go!

653
00:25:19.040 --> 00:25:20.625
Get that basket!
Get that [indistinct]

654
00:25:20.709 --> 00:25:23.583
AAU--I think that gave me
a chance to--exposure.

655
00:25:23.666 --> 00:25:26.290
I'm playing against
all those top players

656
00:25:26.375 --> 00:25:27.750
from the different states...

657
00:25:27.834 --> 00:25:30.625
♪♪♪

658
00:25:30.709 --> 00:25:32.125
...and, uh, show why PG's
the best.

659
00:25:32.208 --> 00:25:33.500
[Quinn] We took those games

660
00:25:33.583 --> 00:25:35.791
like it was
national championship games.

661
00:25:35.916 --> 00:25:38.083
I knew, you know,
I could dominate the area,

662
00:25:38.165 --> 00:25:40.834
but if I can go to a tournament
in Florida and dominate,

663
00:25:40.916 --> 00:25:42.416
that gave me more confidence
to keep working

664
00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:45.040
and, uh, you know, AAU kind of,
you know,

665
00:25:45.083 --> 00:25:46.791
took everybody's game
to another level.

666
00:25:46.916 --> 00:25:48.416
[videotape clacking]

667
00:25:48.500 --> 00:25:51.959
[announcer commenting
indistinctly]

668
00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:53.208
I saw Michael Beasley

669
00:25:53.290 --> 00:25:56.040
when he was 12 years old,
playing with Kevin Durant

670
00:25:56.083 --> 00:25:59.040
to go in the AAU game
with the PG Jaguars.

671
00:25:59.083 --> 00:26:01.750
[man] Followed up and in
by Kevin Durant.

672
00:26:01.834 --> 00:26:03.040
PG Jaguars--we was on--

673
00:26:03.083 --> 00:26:04.750
every weekend,
we was in a tournament.

674
00:26:04.834 --> 00:26:06.834
Get to meet
different types of people,

675
00:26:06.916 --> 00:26:08.541
learn about the game
and traveling.

676
00:26:08.625 --> 00:26:09.541
I wasn't traveling
with my mom's.

677
00:26:09.625 --> 00:26:11.750
PG Jaguars was the first time
I've ever--

678
00:26:11.834 --> 00:26:16.125
I have ever been on a bus
and left the city of PG, D.C.

679
00:26:16.208 --> 00:26:19.750
♪♪♪

680
00:26:19.834 --> 00:26:22.250
[Keith] That's where
the exposure really started

681
00:26:22.333 --> 00:26:23.250
for kids in this area.

682
00:26:23.333 --> 00:26:24.458
Where they would
put those kids

683
00:26:24.541 --> 00:26:25.666
in the van or whatever

684
00:26:25.750 --> 00:26:27.125
and take them
all around the country

685
00:26:27.208 --> 00:26:29.333
to get seen.

686
00:26:29.416 --> 00:26:32.083
♪♪♪

687
00:26:32.916 --> 00:26:34.709
[Kevin] I grew up understanding

688
00:26:34.791 --> 00:26:36.290
how important that was

689
00:26:36.375 --> 00:26:38.375
for my growth as a player
and as a person.

690
00:26:38.458 --> 00:26:40.250
I was just out there
at an early age with the team.

691
00:26:40.333 --> 00:26:43.791
♪ light hip-hop music ♪

692
00:26:43.916 --> 00:26:45.791
You know,
that's what kind of crafted,

693
00:26:45.916 --> 00:26:48.040
you know, who we are today.

694
00:26:48.125 --> 00:26:50.500
[Beasley] I used to smooth,
get 30 rebounds a game,

695
00:26:50.583 --> 00:26:51.791
and every rebound,

696
00:26:51.916 --> 00:26:53.834
I passed them up on KD.

697
00:26:53.916 --> 00:26:55.625
KD do the same shit
he doing now

698
00:26:55.709 --> 00:26:57.040
and shoot that bitch from 40.

699
00:26:57.125 --> 00:27:00.083
♪♪♪

700
00:27:00.165 --> 00:27:01.040
[announcer]
Kevin Durant.

701
00:27:01.125 --> 00:27:03.165
I was tunnel vision
at the rim at all times.

702
00:27:03.250 --> 00:27:05.583
♪♪♪

703
00:27:05.666 --> 00:27:08.916
That just turned me
into a bucket getter.

704
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:11.625
Shit, it was history
after that.

705
00:27:11.709 --> 00:27:13.791
♪♪♪

706
00:27:13.875 --> 00:27:15.959
[announcer] And now, here is
your most valuable player

707
00:27:16.040 --> 00:27:17.625
in the 11 and under tournament,

708
00:27:17.709 --> 00:27:19.709
from the Jaguars,
Kevin Durant.

709
00:27:19.791 --> 00:27:22.000
[Beasley] That's
the first time I realized

710
00:27:22.040 --> 00:27:24.416
Kevin Durant was going
to the NBA.

711
00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:27.250
KD used to call himself KD,

712
00:27:27.375 --> 00:27:30.625
like, before anybody even knew

713
00:27:30.709 --> 00:27:33.250
there was a Kevin Durant
to be called KD.

714
00:27:33.375 --> 00:27:35.416
Man, who the fuck
you think you is?

715
00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:36.083
That just sounds stupid.

716
00:27:36.208 --> 00:27:38.791
"KD.
KD."

717
00:27:38.875 --> 00:27:40.791
As he was saying it,

718
00:27:40.875 --> 00:27:42.791
he was walking
under the flickering light.

719
00:27:42.875 --> 00:27:44.208
In the back,

720
00:27:44.250 --> 00:27:45.040
I'm like, "Dog,

721
00:27:45.125 --> 00:27:47.083
he is actually gonna
make it."

722
00:27:47.208 --> 00:27:49.916
[laughs] I ain't think
he was gonna be as big

723
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:50.834
as he is today.

724
00:27:50.916 --> 00:27:54.125
[laughs]
That motherfucker, you know?

725
00:27:56.083 --> 00:27:57.416
He was always special.

726
00:27:57.541 --> 00:27:59.208
[announcer] ...The staff.

727
00:27:59.250 --> 00:28:01.666
Durant.
Showtime!

728
00:28:01.750 --> 00:28:03.333
Oh!

729
00:28:03.416 --> 00:28:06.666
That was like a...

730
00:28:06.750 --> 00:28:09.959
a condor flying
through the air.

731
00:28:10.040 --> 00:28:12.375
Once I told my mom
that I loved to play

732
00:28:12.416 --> 00:28:14.040
and I want to do it
as much as possible,

733
00:28:14.125 --> 00:28:15.208
she pushed me to new heights,

734
00:28:15.250 --> 00:28:16.666
you know, and, um--

735
00:28:16.750 --> 00:28:19.791
and then that turned
into seeing this

736
00:28:19.875 --> 00:28:21.541
as a tool for us to get out.

737
00:28:21.625 --> 00:28:23.666
As long as I've been coming
to these tournaments,

738
00:28:23.750 --> 00:28:24.875
there's been a team
from Prince George's here.

739
00:28:24.959 --> 00:28:26.750
We're real proud of them.
They're here every year

740
00:28:26.834 --> 00:28:28.500
because they're disciplined,
and doggone it,

741
00:28:28.583 --> 00:28:31.000
they play great basketball.

742
00:28:31.040 --> 00:28:35.000
Here's your
national champions, PG Jaguars!

743
00:28:35.040 --> 00:28:37.416
[Kevin] Whenever we went
to a tournament out of town,

744
00:28:37.541 --> 00:28:40.416
it was a team from home

745
00:28:40.541 --> 00:28:41.709
either in
the championship game,

746
00:28:41.791 --> 00:28:44.125
or they was winning it,
for sure.

747
00:28:44.208 --> 00:28:45.916
[narrator] PG County's
AAU team showed the strength

748
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:49.290
of the county's
youth development ecosystem:

749
00:28:49.375 --> 00:28:51.416
skilled players,
top-tier coaches,

750
00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:53.375
supportive parents.

751
00:28:53.458 --> 00:28:55.375
But there was
another influence:

752
00:28:55.458 --> 00:28:57.834
a home-grown style of music
called go-go.

753
00:28:57.916 --> 00:29:00.875
♪ upbeat music ♪

754
00:29:00.959 --> 00:29:04.916
♪♪♪

755
00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:06.834
[Kevin]
Go-go was just like--

756
00:29:06.916 --> 00:29:08.625
pssh, it was huge
around that time.

757
00:29:08.709 --> 00:29:11.834
It had the county rocking,
you know?

758
00:29:11.916 --> 00:29:15.541
Go-go is...
percussion-driven music

759
00:29:15.625 --> 00:29:16.875
with a hip-hop influence.

760
00:29:16.959 --> 00:29:18.541
[Lamann]
If you really listen to it,

761
00:29:18.625 --> 00:29:20.583
it's an amalgamation
of these--

762
00:29:20.666 --> 00:29:23.165
all these different forms
of music

763
00:29:23.250 --> 00:29:25.625
that have come
into this country,

764
00:29:25.709 --> 00:29:27.709
but in particular,
come into this region.

765
00:29:27.791 --> 00:29:29.416
You can hear it,
and that's one thing,

766
00:29:29.500 --> 00:29:30.791
but then going to a go-go

767
00:29:30.875 --> 00:29:34.250
is a totally different
experience.

768
00:29:34.333 --> 00:29:36.000
Being in a go-go--

769
00:29:36.083 --> 00:29:40.541
the energy that's associated
with the go-go is ridiculous.

770
00:29:40.625 --> 00:29:45.750
♪♪♪

771
00:29:51.165 --> 00:29:55.416
[Nolan] I moved to Maryland
when I was eight years old.

772
00:29:55.500 --> 00:29:58.375
Go-go music was foreign to me,

773
00:29:58.458 --> 00:30:02.375
and Beas took me
to my first go-go party.

774
00:30:02.458 --> 00:30:04.208
♪♪♪

775
00:30:04.290 --> 00:30:08.875
Go-go live was basically
a hot room

776
00:30:08.959 --> 00:30:11.791
with a lot of bodies in it,
sweat.

777
00:30:11.875 --> 00:30:14.165
I was, you know,

778
00:30:14.250 --> 00:30:16.541
sitting in the back,
just kind of observing,

779
00:30:16.625 --> 00:30:18.290
standing next to Beas.
He's like,

780
00:30:18.375 --> 00:30:20.208
"It's crazy, huh, Slim?"

781
00:30:20.290 --> 00:30:22.791
Like,
"Yeah, this is different."

782
00:30:22.875 --> 00:30:25.625
Fell in love with it
ever since.

783
00:30:25.709 --> 00:30:27.250
[laughs]

784
00:30:27.333 --> 00:30:31.125
♪♪♪

785
00:30:31.208 --> 00:30:33.165
We used to work out--

786
00:30:33.250 --> 00:30:35.750
that was the rhythm
that we worked out to,

787
00:30:35.834 --> 00:30:36.959
was go-go music.

788
00:30:37.040 --> 00:30:39.165
It became part of our game.

789
00:30:39.250 --> 00:30:40.375
[Beasley] Like, for instance,

790
00:30:40.458 --> 00:30:42.458
how Kevin Durant
and Ty Lawson

791
00:30:42.541 --> 00:30:46.250
can come down and hit you
with that hands-up.

792
00:30:46.333 --> 00:30:48.333
Most of the country
called that hesitation.

793
00:30:48.416 --> 00:30:50.375
We don't.
Get your hands up.

794
00:30:50.458 --> 00:30:54.333
That's, like, reminisces
of go-go music.

795
00:30:54.416 --> 00:30:56.791
[announcer] Cross over
and slam for Durant.

796
00:30:56.875 --> 00:30:59.165
But there's something
about just how this place

797
00:30:59.250 --> 00:31:00.959
forms a different kind
of person.

798
00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:02.500
I mean, I can almost be
anywhere else in the country

799
00:31:02.583 --> 00:31:04.750
around the world.

800
00:31:04.834 --> 00:31:06.541
I can clock somebody.
I, like--I can see them.

801
00:31:06.625 --> 00:31:07.916
I'm like, "Where you from?"

802
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.500
We just always had
our own just way of doing--

803
00:31:09.583 --> 00:31:10.791
our way of living life,

804
00:31:10.875 --> 00:31:13.333
way of talking,
way of playing,

805
00:31:13.416 --> 00:31:13.709
way of being, you know.

806
00:31:13.791 --> 00:31:19.125
♪♪♪

807
00:31:25.290 --> 00:31:28.375
♪ 3ohblack's "All Talk"
playing ♪

808
00:31:28.458 --> 00:31:30.416
♪ White Baby the G.O.A.T. ♪

809
00:31:30.500 --> 00:31:31.834
[narrator] In the 1990s,

810
00:31:31.916 --> 00:31:33.040
the NBA's fortune rose
on the era

811
00:31:33.125 --> 00:31:36.208
of Michael Jordan
and lucrative sneaker deals.

812
00:31:36.290 --> 00:31:37.875
Demand soared
for the next wave

813
00:31:37.959 --> 00:31:39.458
of superstars.

814
00:31:39.541 --> 00:31:40.709
[player] One, two, three, go.

815
00:31:40.791 --> 00:31:42.290
[narrator]
One PG County team emerged

816
00:31:42.375 --> 00:31:43.666
as a major talent pipeline:

817
00:31:43.750 --> 00:31:45.040
D.C. Assault.

818
00:31:45.125 --> 00:31:46.541
[Lou] Here comes D.C. Assault,

819
00:31:46.625 --> 00:31:49.250
another powerhouse AAU squad,

820
00:31:49.333 --> 00:31:52.541
and they kind of took off.

821
00:31:52.625 --> 00:31:57.290
♪♪♪

822
00:31:58.165 --> 00:32:00.666
[Thomas] Everybody was trying
to be like them.

823
00:32:00.750 --> 00:32:02.750
That intensity,
that competitive nature--

824
00:32:02.834 --> 00:32:06.165
that actually made PG County
what it is today...

825
00:32:06.250 --> 00:32:10.458
[all exclaiming]

826
00:32:10.541 --> 00:32:13.416
...which is the best county
in the country.

827
00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:16.040
[Nolan] D.C. Assault
was killers.

828
00:32:16.125 --> 00:32:17.875
[laughs] That's what we had
to do.

829
00:32:17.959 --> 00:32:19.875
That's what we were taught
to do.

830
00:32:19.959 --> 00:32:21.875
And if you put on
a D.C. Assault jersey,

831
00:32:21.959 --> 00:32:24.000
you were representing
something,

832
00:32:24.083 --> 00:32:27.791
and Curtis Malone
always let that be known.

833
00:32:27.875 --> 00:32:28.875
♪ spacey music ♪

834
00:32:28.959 --> 00:32:31.500
[narrator] Curtis Malone
co-founded and ran

835
00:32:31.583 --> 00:32:32.750
D.C. Assault,

836
00:32:32.834 --> 00:32:34.083
an AAU super-squad

837
00:32:34.165 --> 00:32:35.083
founded and based
in PG County.

838
00:32:35.165 --> 00:32:37.834
[man] Curtis did
a great job of helping

839
00:32:37.916 --> 00:32:38.834
the community of basketball

840
00:32:38.916 --> 00:32:41.125
with kids like
DerMarr Johnson,

841
00:32:41.208 --> 00:32:43.208
who had pretty much nothing.

842
00:32:43.290 --> 00:32:45.125
[DerMarr] And he took me
from the streets

843
00:32:45.208 --> 00:32:47.165
and, you know, put me
on his AAU team,

844
00:32:47.250 --> 00:32:49.500
and it was over from there.

845
00:32:49.583 --> 00:32:50.500
Loved to play.

846
00:32:50.583 --> 00:32:53.791
Played in the playground.
That's about it.

847
00:32:53.875 --> 00:32:56.250
But now, I've seen
that I can actually make it.

848
00:32:56.333 --> 00:33:00.040
We practiced wherever we could.
Mostly, it was in PG County,

849
00:33:00.125 --> 00:33:01.834
'cause Curtis
was from Palmer Park.

850
00:33:01.916 --> 00:33:04.040
[Curtis] DerMarr was a talent
that was untouched.

851
00:33:04.125 --> 00:33:07.875
It was like I found
an untapped player.

852
00:33:07.959 --> 00:33:11.290
Academically,
he was struggling,

853
00:33:11.375 --> 00:33:14.625
but the kid had
a great talent,

854
00:33:14.709 --> 00:33:17.583
and I couldn't believe
how high his ceiling was.

855
00:33:17.666 --> 00:33:19.458
Once he came there, it was--

856
00:33:19.541 --> 00:33:21.208
basketball turned
into something

857
00:33:21.290 --> 00:33:22.625
that--that was my life.

858
00:33:22.709 --> 00:33:24.165
♪♪♪

859
00:33:24.250 --> 00:33:26.125
Him being the number one
player in the country

860
00:33:26.208 --> 00:33:28.165
and just watching the media
waving around him

861
00:33:28.250 --> 00:33:30.165
and how he carried himself--
real humble dude.

862
00:33:30.250 --> 00:33:34.625
[man] DerMarr Johnson was
the first guy I seen

863
00:33:34.709 --> 00:33:35.709
at that size, at 6'9",

864
00:33:35.791 --> 00:33:36.959
that could handle the ball

865
00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:39.290
and that could shoot the ball.

866
00:33:39.375 --> 00:33:40.834
[narrator] Under Malone's
development,

867
00:33:40.916 --> 00:33:43.000
Johnson blossomed
into the number one-ranked

868
00:33:43.083 --> 00:33:45.290
high school player
in the country as a senior.

869
00:33:45.375 --> 00:33:47.333
After a year of college,
Johnson became

870
00:33:47.416 --> 00:33:49.375
a first-round NBA draft pick.

871
00:33:51.416 --> 00:33:52.834
The Atlanta Hawks select
DerMarr Johnson,

872
00:33:52.916 --> 00:33:55.165
of the University
of Cincinnati.

873
00:33:55.250 --> 00:33:56.040
[DerMarr] Here I am.

874
00:33:56.125 --> 00:33:57.125
Just turned 20 years old.

875
00:33:57.208 --> 00:34:01.040
I'm having my name called
by David Stern.

876
00:34:01.125 --> 00:34:04.040
At the moment, the thought
was just, "I made it."

877
00:34:04.125 --> 00:34:05.165
[announcer] DerMarr!

878
00:34:05.250 --> 00:34:07.750
I think he changed the game
for a lot of guys,

879
00:34:07.834 --> 00:34:08.958
uh, coming out of--
coming out of PG.

880
00:34:09.041 --> 00:34:12.208
[announcer] Johnson
for a point.

881
00:34:12.291 --> 00:34:15.625
[Sam] Once you see people
in your area make it,

882
00:34:15.708 --> 00:34:19.416
it just kind of create a path
for people to be like,

883
00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:22.625
"If they can do it,
I can do it."

884
00:34:22.708 --> 00:34:25.375
[DerMarr] There is no telling
what my life would've been

885
00:34:25.458 --> 00:34:27.166
without Curtis Malone.

886
00:34:27.250 --> 00:34:31.500
[Curtis] A lot of kids
looked up to me as dad,

887
00:34:31.583 --> 00:34:32.791
and loved me unconditionally.

888
00:34:32.875 --> 00:34:35.375
Whether right or wrong,

889
00:34:35.458 --> 00:34:37.833
you put nothing before family.

890
00:34:37.916 --> 00:34:39.791
♪♪♪

891
00:34:39.875 --> 00:34:40.625
[narrator]
Malone's family ties

892
00:34:40.708 --> 00:34:43.458
extended beyond blood.

893
00:34:43.541 --> 00:34:44.208
For many in PG County,

894
00:34:44.291 --> 00:34:47.041
he was a needed father figure,

895
00:34:47.125 --> 00:34:50.041
a role he filled
for Nolan Smith.

896
00:34:50.125 --> 00:34:52.000
[Nolan] My dad played
in the NBA for nine years,

897
00:34:52.083 --> 00:34:55.625
passed away
when I was eight years old.

898
00:34:55.708 --> 00:34:57.625
On a cruise
with the Washington Bullets

899
00:34:57.708 --> 00:35:00.333
is where he was coaching
at the time.

900
00:35:00.416 --> 00:35:02.625
You know, it impacted
my life a lot

901
00:35:02.708 --> 00:35:05.250
because my dad gave me
the game of basketball,

902
00:35:05.333 --> 00:35:09.291
and, you know, I went--
I went through a stage in life

903
00:35:09.375 --> 00:35:14.791
where, you know, I really
needed a lot of attention.

904
00:35:14.875 --> 00:35:16.791
[narrator] The void
was partially filled

905
00:35:16.875 --> 00:35:18.375
when Malone started
coaching Smith

906
00:35:18.458 --> 00:35:20.041
with D.C. Assault.

907
00:35:20.125 --> 00:35:21.833
The bond grew tighter
when Malone married

908
00:35:21.916 --> 00:35:23.291
Smith's mother, Monica,

909
00:35:23.375 --> 00:35:24.375
in 2005.

910
00:35:26.333 --> 00:35:28.375
[Nolan] He took care
of everybody,

911
00:35:28.458 --> 00:35:30.375
and if he could get somebody

912
00:35:30.458 --> 00:35:31.958
off the streets
and into a gym,

913
00:35:32.041 --> 00:35:36.375
if they were in
a messed-up home,

914
00:35:36.458 --> 00:35:38.083
he'd bring them into his home.

915
00:35:38.166 --> 00:35:40.083
If someone reached out
to Curtis like,

916
00:35:40.166 --> 00:35:44.291
"Hey, I know a kid,
6'9", lefty,

917
00:35:44.375 --> 00:35:45.875
growing up in Belhaven.

918
00:35:45.958 --> 00:35:47.041
He--he needs you,"

919
00:35:47.125 --> 00:35:50.166
Curtis being the guy
that he was,

920
00:35:50.250 --> 00:35:52.916
like, "Yo, I'ma give him
a chance."

921
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.333
And at the time,
Beas was on house arrest.

922
00:35:55.416 --> 00:35:58.500
[laughs]
Curtis talked to his mom.

923
00:35:58.583 --> 00:36:01.000
She agreed,

924
00:36:01.083 --> 00:36:04.416
so then from there,
that's when we became brothers.

925
00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:08.750
[Beasley] When I got
to D.C. Assault was...

926
00:36:09.375 --> 00:36:11.125
...yeah,
that's when I was born.

927
00:36:11.208 --> 00:36:14.041
[Lou] Michael Beasley
was just a--a terror.

928
00:36:14.125 --> 00:36:16.416
He was pretty much unstoppable,

929
00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:18.541
and then his partner in crime,

930
00:36:18.625 --> 00:36:19.166
Nolan Smith--

931
00:36:19.250 --> 00:36:21.416
he could dunk it on you.

932
00:36:21.500 --> 00:36:23.458
He could make
spectacular passes.

933
00:36:23.541 --> 00:36:24.916
He'd make a one-handed pass

934
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.833
like a Magic Johnson-type
pass.

935
00:36:28.375 --> 00:36:30.666
[Beasley]
Me and Nolan got closest

936
00:36:30.750 --> 00:36:33.125
I've ever been to anybody
in my life.

937
00:36:33.208 --> 00:36:35.583
We just started working out,

938
00:36:35.666 --> 00:36:37.125
doing push-ups in the room,

939
00:36:37.208 --> 00:36:39.916
and just play one-on-one
and fight.

940
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.750
The games would never end.

941
00:36:41.833 --> 00:36:44.666
Make sure you get that.
You make sure you get that.

942
00:36:44.750 --> 00:36:46.083
We would end up fighting

943
00:36:46.166 --> 00:36:48.125
and then walking home
mad at each other,

944
00:36:48.208 --> 00:36:50.250
and that right there

945
00:36:50.333 --> 00:36:52.333
pretty much
was our relationship.

946
00:36:52.416 --> 00:36:55.375
You know, he was number one
in the area.

947
00:36:55.458 --> 00:36:57.041
I was number two.
I wanted to be number one.

948
00:36:57.125 --> 00:36:59.708
And I never--I never had
a brother,

949
00:36:59.791 --> 00:37:00.291
so he became that for me.

950
00:37:04.541 --> 00:37:05.958
[narrator]
Another talented prospect,

951
00:37:06.041 --> 00:37:07.208
Quinn Cook,

952
00:37:07.291 --> 00:37:08.125
joined the extended
Malone household

953
00:37:08.208 --> 00:37:11.333
after the passing
of his father.

954
00:37:11.416 --> 00:37:12.500
You know, when I lost
my father,

955
00:37:12.583 --> 00:37:16.166
you know, I started to hang
around the wrong crowds.

956
00:37:16.250 --> 00:37:19.041
I went through
a little rough stage

957
00:37:19.125 --> 00:37:20.333
in my life.

958
00:37:20.416 --> 00:37:22.041
[Nolan] And we went
and sat in the gym,

959
00:37:22.125 --> 00:37:23.333
and I said, "Look, man.

960
00:37:23.416 --> 00:37:25.000
I-I know what
you're going through.

961
00:37:25.083 --> 00:37:28.875
I got you.
Let's use the gym."

962
00:37:28.958 --> 00:37:31.875
We shot and we talked
for hours,

963
00:37:31.958 --> 00:37:35.375
and that's when the gym
became his sanctuary.

964
00:37:35.458 --> 00:37:37.125
♪ Yeah... ♪

965
00:37:37.208 --> 00:37:38.625
[Quinn] I was
the little brother,

966
00:37:38.708 --> 00:37:39.750
and you know, I was cool

967
00:37:39.833 --> 00:37:42.041
because I had relationships
with those guys,

968
00:37:42.125 --> 00:37:43.375
and Curt made sure of that,

969
00:37:43.458 --> 00:37:45.208
and obviously,
when my dad passed,

970
00:37:45.291 --> 00:37:46.875
Curt--you know,
I basically lived with them

971
00:37:46.958 --> 00:37:50.125
for that next year.

972
00:37:50.208 --> 00:37:52.208
[narrator] More than just
a beloved father figure,

973
00:37:52.291 --> 00:37:54.541
Malone became the godfather
of D.C. basketball.

974
00:37:54.625 --> 00:37:57.750
By controlling much
of the local talent pipeline,

975
00:37:57.833 --> 00:38:01.000
he transformed D.C. Assault
into a lucrative enterprise,

976
00:38:01.083 --> 00:38:04.041
including an Adidas deal
for $50,000 a year.

977
00:38:04.833 --> 00:38:06.541
[Nolan] He had all the juice.

978
00:38:06.625 --> 00:38:08.458
Curtis had the juice
to get us,

979
00:38:08.541 --> 00:38:10.833
you know, on the stage
and be seen

980
00:38:10.916 --> 00:38:13.375
and basically get us to where
we ultimately got to,

981
00:38:13.458 --> 00:38:14.166
which was the NBA

982
00:38:14.250 --> 00:38:17.125
and to Duke
and Kansas State,

983
00:38:17.208 --> 00:38:19.500
and Curtis really got us
out to Vegas

984
00:38:19.583 --> 00:38:20.791
and started getting us

985
00:38:20.875 --> 00:38:21.791
to all these big-time
tournaments.

986
00:38:21.875 --> 00:38:23.875
You know, that--
that really changed

987
00:38:23.958 --> 00:38:25.625
the game for us.

988
00:38:25.708 --> 00:38:26.916
[Curtis] What I did
was realize

989
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:29.041
how the shoe companies

990
00:38:29.125 --> 00:38:31.250
were all looking
for their next Kobe Bryant

991
00:38:31.333 --> 00:38:32.333
and Tracy McGrady.

992
00:38:32.416 --> 00:38:34.708
You know, maybe this is
a business

993
00:38:34.791 --> 00:38:36.375
that I could turn, um,

994
00:38:36.458 --> 00:38:38.375
you know, D.C. Assault into.

995
00:38:38.458 --> 00:38:40.458
He was a marketing genius.
I gotta give it to him.

996
00:38:40.541 --> 00:38:43.583
[Nolan] This game
of basketball's a business,

997
00:38:43.666 --> 00:38:45.458
and at that moment,
we didn't know it,

998
00:38:45.541 --> 00:38:48.125
'cause we were so young.

999
00:38:48.208 --> 00:38:49.875
You know,
it's very unfortunate,

1000
00:38:49.958 --> 00:38:52.291
uh, the way things transpired

1001
00:38:52.375 --> 00:38:53.375
with, uh, D.C. Assault

1002
00:38:53.458 --> 00:38:57.500
and their, uh--their leader,
uh, Curtis Malone.

1003
00:38:57.583 --> 00:38:59.875
My first reaction
when I got the call--

1004
00:38:59.958 --> 00:39:01.000
uh, it was from my sister.

1005
00:39:01.083 --> 00:39:04.833
She's like, "They got Curt."

1006
00:39:04.916 --> 00:39:05.583
"What you mean, they got Curt?"

1007
00:39:05.666 --> 00:39:06.875
"They got him.
They got him."

1008
00:39:06.958 --> 00:39:09.500
I'm like...

1009
00:39:09.583 --> 00:39:11.666
"For what?"
[laughs]

1010
00:39:11.750 --> 00:39:14.041
Federal agents arrested
Curtis Malone

1011
00:39:14.125 --> 00:39:16.000
as a key suspect
in a major drug operation.

1012
00:39:16.083 --> 00:39:17.541
[reporter] The DEA alleges

1013
00:39:17.625 --> 00:39:21.333
he was also distributing
heroin and cocaine.

1014
00:39:21.416 --> 00:39:23.166
On Friday, agents searched
his Upper Marlboro home...

1015
00:39:23.250 --> 00:39:25.375
You know,
it was one of them days

1016
00:39:25.458 --> 00:39:25.750
where it was like,

1017
00:39:25.833 --> 00:39:27.666
not Curt.

1018
00:39:27.750 --> 00:39:29.666
Like, couldn't believe it.

1019
00:39:29.750 --> 00:39:31.500
But you don't really know why.

1020
00:39:31.583 --> 00:39:32.458
You're wondering why.

1021
00:39:32.541 --> 00:39:34.875
[Quinn] I lived with Curt
for a year,

1022
00:39:34.958 --> 00:39:36.875
and I had no idea
what was going on,

1023
00:39:36.958 --> 00:39:38.208
'cause all I saw was
the positive things

1024
00:39:38.291 --> 00:39:41.541
that he was doing, the kids
that he took off the street,

1025
00:39:41.625 --> 00:39:43.875
the--the gifts
and the presents

1026
00:39:43.958 --> 00:39:46.541
and the bills that he paid.

1027
00:39:46.625 --> 00:39:49.375
I wish that hadn't happened,
but it did,

1028
00:39:49.458 --> 00:39:52.208
But does that tarnish
the type of person that he was

1029
00:39:52.291 --> 00:39:54.041
and what he did,
how many people he touched?

1030
00:39:54.125 --> 00:39:57.208
No, because he looked out
for the people first.

1031
00:39:57.291 --> 00:39:59.125
It hurt,

1032
00:39:59.208 --> 00:40:01.083
and people were surprised.

1033
00:40:01.166 --> 00:40:03.208
A lot of people
didn't judge him.

1034
00:40:03.291 --> 00:40:05.250
[Navarro] I-I ain't really
judge him awful.

1035
00:40:05.333 --> 00:40:06.166
You know what I'm saying?
Because I always saw the good

1036
00:40:06.250 --> 00:40:08.333
in what he was doing,

1037
00:40:08.416 --> 00:40:09.583
and none of that ever came
around the kids.

1038
00:40:11.958 --> 00:40:14.291
[Colder] He cared about
the millions of dollars

1039
00:40:14.375 --> 00:40:17.791
that he could make
from drug trafficking.

1040
00:40:17.875 --> 00:40:20.208
He...

1041
00:40:20.291 --> 00:40:24.750
didn't serve as a role model.

1042
00:40:24.833 --> 00:40:26.416
It was a false model.

1043
00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:29.083
Y'all can say whatever the fuck
y'all want about him.

1044
00:40:29.166 --> 00:40:31.375
Y'all can talk dirt.

1045
00:40:31.458 --> 00:40:33.750
He always the had
the kids first, man.

1046
00:40:33.833 --> 00:40:35.833
He always--he always put
the kids first.

1047
00:40:35.916 --> 00:40:38.708
He always fed the kids
before he ate.

1048
00:40:38.791 --> 00:40:40.375
[phone system]
...A prepaid call.

1049
00:40:40.458 --> 00:40:41.833
This call is from...

1050
00:40:41.916 --> 00:40:43.375
[Curtis] Curtis Malone.

1051
00:40:43.458 --> 00:40:46.250
[phone system] An inmate
at...a federal prison.

1052
00:40:46.333 --> 00:40:47.250
[Curtis] I try to capitalize

1053
00:40:47.333 --> 00:40:50.416
on the mistakes
that I have made

1054
00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:54.916
which, um--it caused me
so much embarrassment, man,

1055
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:56.500
because I'm preaching
to these kids

1056
00:40:56.583 --> 00:40:59.166
not to do one thing,
but I'm doing another,

1057
00:40:59.250 --> 00:41:01.125
and it was just, you know--
it was my ego,

1058
00:41:01.208 --> 00:41:05.833
my pride, um, my greed.

1059
00:41:05.916 --> 00:41:07.000
♪ somber music ♪

1060
00:41:07.083 --> 00:41:09.916
[Nolan]
I know who he really is:

1061
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:11.958
the person that would give
his shirt off his back

1062
00:41:12.041 --> 00:41:13.458
to a kid,
that would do anything

1063
00:41:13.541 --> 00:41:16.875
to get these kids
scholarships,

1064
00:41:16.958 --> 00:41:18.041
but then that other side,

1065
00:41:18.125 --> 00:41:21.291
the evil side

1066
00:41:21.375 --> 00:41:24.583
that did what...he felt
like he might have had to do?

1067
00:41:27.041 --> 00:41:29.458
I can't quite put my hands
around that side,

1068
00:41:29.541 --> 00:41:33.583
'cause I don't think
that's who he is.

1069
00:41:33.666 --> 00:41:35.125
[narrator]
Malone's felony conviction

1070
00:41:35.208 --> 00:41:37.958
stunned the community
and attracted national press,

1071
00:41:38.041 --> 00:41:40.000
but the sustainability
of PG County hoops

1072
00:41:40.083 --> 00:41:42.166
never belonged
to one individual.

1073
00:41:42.250 --> 00:41:44.708
The county's ecosystem
remained strong.

1074
00:41:44.791 --> 00:41:46.875
♪ ♪

1075
00:41:46.958 --> 00:41:48.666
♪ ♪

1076
00:41:48.750 --> 00:41:52.375
[Quinn] The thing that makes
PG County so unique

1077
00:41:52.458 --> 00:41:54.708
is that the guy that you want
to be like is bringing you up.

1078
00:41:54.791 --> 00:41:56.708
The D-I players
and NBA players--

1079
00:41:56.791 --> 00:41:58.208
they bring you up,
'cause they know

1080
00:41:58.291 --> 00:41:59.625
what they had to go through
to make it,

1081
00:41:59.708 --> 00:42:01.166
and we all want
to see each other win,

1082
00:42:01.250 --> 00:42:02.125
so that's why we're all
extremely close.

1083
00:42:02.208 --> 00:42:04.708
♪♪♪

1084
00:42:04.791 --> 00:42:06.625
[announcer] It's just
a great story

1085
00:42:06.708 --> 00:42:09.083
with Oladipo and Quinn Cook

1086
00:42:09.166 --> 00:42:11.416
and then the mentorship
of the older

1087
00:42:11.500 --> 00:42:13.208
of the Maryland guys
and Kevin Durant.

1088
00:42:13.291 --> 00:42:15.291
♪ synth music ♪

1089
00:42:15.375 --> 00:42:17.166
KD has always been
a big brother to me,

1090
00:42:17.250 --> 00:42:20.458
somebody, um, that I've always,
you know, reached out to

1091
00:42:20.541 --> 00:42:21.291
for anything,
and he's reached out to me,

1092
00:42:21.375 --> 00:42:23.208
just making sure
I was okay.

1093
00:42:23.291 --> 00:42:26.833
He's always been there for me.

1094
00:42:26.916 --> 00:42:27.875
[man] Takes a long time
to get really good

1095
00:42:27.958 --> 00:42:30.375
at playing basketball,
and a lot of those guys

1096
00:42:30.458 --> 00:42:31.625
grind it out for a while.

1097
00:42:31.708 --> 00:42:33.583
Quinn Cook, the same way.

1098
00:42:33.666 --> 00:42:36.041
Every kid dreams
of getting drafted.

1099
00:42:36.125 --> 00:42:36.708
Like, I knew
I was gonna wear...

1100
00:42:36.791 --> 00:42:38.708
I knew what I was gonna do

1101
00:42:38.791 --> 00:42:40.375
as soon as I heard
my name called.

1102
00:42:40.458 --> 00:42:41.375
The Charlotte Hornets
select...

1103
00:42:41.458 --> 00:42:43.208
The Miami Heats select...

1104
00:42:43.291 --> 00:42:44.500
Indiana Pacers select...

1105
00:42:44.583 --> 00:42:45.208
[Quinn] But it never happened.

1106
00:42:45.291 --> 00:42:49.416
♪ dramatic music ♪

1107
00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:50.375
I felt sorry for myself
for about two minutes.

1108
00:42:50.458 --> 00:42:51.708
When he didn't get drafted,

1109
00:42:51.791 --> 00:42:53.875
you know, everybody knew
he was gonna be all right,

1110
00:42:53.958 --> 00:42:56.125
because that's
the type of player he is.

1111
00:42:56.208 --> 00:42:57.541
[Thomas] It's
the cliché term of

1112
00:42:57.625 --> 00:42:59.625
"you can do anything
you put your mind to,"

1113
00:42:59.708 --> 00:43:02.041
but Quinn is
the perfect definition of it.

1114
00:43:02.125 --> 00:43:04.625
♪ gentle music ♪

1115
00:43:04.708 --> 00:43:06.916
He had plenty of people
in his ear

1116
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:09.416
telling him his best route
was going overseas,

1117
00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:11.875
trying to get money,
but Quinn had a dream.

1118
00:43:11.958 --> 00:43:14.000
[announcer] Back to Cook.
Left wing, three.

1119
00:43:14.083 --> 00:43:15.125
Ball!
He tied the ball game!

1120
00:43:15.208 --> 00:43:18.041
[Thomas] He earned his stripes
in the D league.

1121
00:43:18.125 --> 00:43:19.750
He did what it took.
So with that story,

1122
00:43:19.833 --> 00:43:21.166
it's just
an amazing accomplishment

1123
00:43:21.250 --> 00:43:22.958
and a blessing.

1124
00:43:23.041 --> 00:43:24.458
[announcer] On the floor, Cook.

1125
00:43:24.541 --> 00:43:25.875
Oh!

1126
00:43:25.958 --> 00:43:27.625
[announcer] That is not
an easy shot.

1127
00:43:27.708 --> 00:43:29.500
- [announcer] He knows it.
- [announcer] Yeah.

1128
00:43:29.583 --> 00:43:31.291
[Kevin] He's never stopped
working, man.

1129
00:43:31.375 --> 00:43:33.583
That's what I tell people.
Look at Quinn.

1130
00:43:33.666 --> 00:43:35.833
[announcer] Three by Quinn!

1131
00:43:35.916 --> 00:43:38.541
You know, 'cause he called me
when he didn't get drafted.

1132
00:43:38.625 --> 00:43:40.625
It was his--he was crying
'cause he didn't get drafted.

1133
00:43:40.708 --> 00:43:42.916
And I'm like,
"Bro, you got talent.

1134
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.416
Just keep working.
Never stop."

1135
00:43:44.500 --> 00:43:47.583
♪♪♪

1136
00:43:47.666 --> 00:43:49.500
'Sup, y'all?
This Quinn Cook,

1137
00:43:49.583 --> 00:43:51.291
Started in the G League,

1138
00:43:51.375 --> 00:43:53.416
ended up NBA champion.

1139
00:43:53.500 --> 00:43:55.416
Always believe in yourself.

1140
00:43:55.500 --> 00:43:57.125
Don't let anybody tell you

1141
00:43:57.208 --> 00:44:00.708
you can't do
whatever you want to do.

1142
00:44:00.791 --> 00:44:02.333
You know, definitely,
I'm just proud, uh,

1143
00:44:02.416 --> 00:44:03.625
coming from where
we come from.

1144
00:44:03.708 --> 00:44:06.166
Uh, you look at the odds...

1145
00:44:06.250 --> 00:44:07.791
It's under one percent
of a person in here

1146
00:44:07.875 --> 00:44:09.208
that's gonna make it
to the NBA,

1147
00:44:09.291 --> 00:44:09.958
and I told myself--I said,

1148
00:44:10.041 --> 00:44:13.500
"I'ma be the one percent,
then."

1149
00:44:13.583 --> 00:44:15.291
You know, I had guys to look up
to who made it,

1150
00:44:15.375 --> 00:44:17.500
so we put our goals to action,

1151
00:44:17.583 --> 00:44:19.333
our plans to action,
and we got it done.

1152
00:44:19.416 --> 00:44:21.000
And I don't believe
in those percentages

1153
00:44:21.083 --> 00:44:21.666
or none of that stuff.

1154
00:44:21.750 --> 00:44:23.500
Everybody in Seat Pleasant,

1155
00:44:23.583 --> 00:44:24.375
everybody in PG County,
Maryland,

1156
00:44:24.458 --> 00:44:25.791
y'all be riding with me.

1157
00:44:25.875 --> 00:44:30.333
Feels good to see him come
full circle, man.

1158
00:44:30.416 --> 00:44:31.916
It's great to see, man,

1159
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:33.375
'cause everybody's chasing
their dreams

1160
00:44:33.458 --> 00:44:36.750
of, you know, playing
on the biggest stage.

1161
00:44:36.833 --> 00:44:39.333
[Bobby] To see guys
that I grew up with

1162
00:44:39.416 --> 00:44:41.833
make it so far--
it made it on the lines

1163
00:44:41.916 --> 00:44:43.666
of "You just keep going,
then you can make it."

1164
00:44:43.750 --> 00:44:47.541
♪♪♪

1165
00:44:47.625 --> 00:44:51.833
Never forget the year
he won MVP,

1166
00:44:51.916 --> 00:44:53.958
and he said to his mom...

1167
00:44:54.041 --> 00:44:57.291
The odds were stacked
against us.

1168
00:44:57.375 --> 00:44:58.333
Single parent with two boys.

1169
00:44:58.416 --> 00:45:01.666
You made us believe.

1170
00:45:01.750 --> 00:45:02.833
You kept us off the street.

1171
00:45:02.916 --> 00:45:07.458
You put clothes on our backs,
food on the table.

1172
00:45:07.541 --> 00:45:08.208
When you didn't eat,

1173
00:45:08.291 --> 00:45:10.541
you made sure we ate.

1174
00:45:10.625 --> 00:45:13.041
You went to sleep hungry.

1175
00:45:13.125 --> 00:45:14.541
You sacrificed for us.

1176
00:45:14.625 --> 00:45:17.791
[sniffs]
You the real MVP.

1177
00:45:20.083 --> 00:45:22.916
[applause]

1178
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.916
♪ pensive music ♪

1179
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:30.958
♪♪♪

1180
00:45:34.916 --> 00:45:38.083
I get a little choked up
when I rem--I say this,

1181
00:45:38.166 --> 00:45:40.708
because I was so...happy
that he said,

1182
00:45:40.791 --> 00:45:43.250
you know, that his mother
was the real MVP,

1183
00:45:43.333 --> 00:45:46.791
because I felt that

1184
00:45:46.875 --> 00:45:48.833
you know, for all the women

1185
00:45:48.916 --> 00:45:51.250
who tried to raise their kids,

1186
00:45:51.333 --> 00:45:53.250
especially single moms.

1187
00:45:53.333 --> 00:45:56.583
When he said that,

1188
00:45:56.666 --> 00:45:59.458
if I could've hugged
that young man, you know...

1189
00:45:59.541 --> 00:46:01.083
I said, "Thank you
for saying that

1190
00:46:01.166 --> 00:46:03.041
about your mom."

1191
00:46:03.125 --> 00:46:06.708
[MC] And the NBA 2018
Most Improved Player is...

1192
00:46:06.791 --> 00:46:09.583
- Victor Oladipo.
- Oladipo.

1193
00:46:09.666 --> 00:46:13.208
♪♪♪

1194
00:46:13.291 --> 00:46:15.833
[Victor] My family's
sacrificed so much for me.

1195
00:46:15.916 --> 00:46:19.416
I used to come here and try
to work out every day

1196
00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:22.250
at 6:00 a.m.,
before school started.

1197
00:46:22.333 --> 00:46:24.083
Shout-out to my father, Chris,
my mother, Joan,

1198
00:46:24.166 --> 00:46:28.041
my three sisters, Victoria,
Kendra, and Christine.

1199
00:46:28.125 --> 00:46:29.166
I always say you guys
are my before,

1200
00:46:29.250 --> 00:46:31.375
my now, and my after.
You guys are my everything.

1201
00:46:31.458 --> 00:46:33.000
♪♪♪

1202
00:46:33.083 --> 00:46:37.666
And I remember those mornings
used to be so tough.

1203
00:46:37.750 --> 00:46:38.666
I remember looking
at my sisters' faces

1204
00:46:38.750 --> 00:46:41.625
and them sleeping in a car

1205
00:46:41.708 --> 00:46:42.791
getting to their schools

1206
00:46:42.875 --> 00:46:44.750
before the janitor
even got there.

1207
00:46:44.833 --> 00:46:47.500
My mom used to have to wait,

1208
00:46:47.583 --> 00:46:49.791
um...go to work all day
and then wait after practice,

1209
00:46:49.875 --> 00:46:52.791
go home, get four hours
of sleep,

1210
00:46:52.875 --> 00:46:56.541
and then have to work
night shifts

1211
00:46:56.625 --> 00:46:59.291
because I had a dream.

1212
00:46:59.375 --> 00:47:01.458
At the end of the day,
that's why I play this game.

1213
00:47:01.541 --> 00:47:02.958
I play it for them.

1214
00:47:03.041 --> 00:47:06.208
They sacrificed so much for me,
I had to do something.

1215
00:47:06.291 --> 00:47:09.958
♪♪♪

1216
00:47:10.041 --> 00:47:11.458
[Ricky] If we're gonna
continue to be

1217
00:47:11.541 --> 00:47:12.458
the county known
for basketball,

1218
00:47:12.541 --> 00:47:16.416
we have to continue
to give back the same way

1219
00:47:16.500 --> 00:47:19.250
the game has given us so much.

1220
00:47:19.333 --> 00:47:21.333
[Kevin] I think we in
the basketball community--

1221
00:47:21.416 --> 00:47:22.750
like, when we combining--

1222
00:47:22.833 --> 00:47:23.916
and we always build
relationships with each other

1223
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.000
and combine resources
and do things like this,

1224
00:47:27.083 --> 00:47:31.166
we're pushing our community
and our culture forward.

1225
00:47:31.250 --> 00:47:32.166
[narrator] In 2019,

1226
00:47:32.250 --> 00:47:34.708
Kevin Durant opened
the Durant Center

1227
00:47:34.791 --> 00:47:36.000
in his hometown
of Suitland, Maryland.

1228
00:47:36.083 --> 00:47:39.083
The state-of-the-art,
$13 million facility

1229
00:47:39.166 --> 00:47:43.375
provides academic, financial,
and social resources

1230
00:47:43.458 --> 00:47:46.375
to youth
from low-income backgrounds.

1231
00:47:46.458 --> 00:47:49.125
The county is good
at saying to its residents

1232
00:47:49.208 --> 00:47:51.083
in very many ways

1233
00:47:51.166 --> 00:47:54.333
through each, uh--each decade
or each generation,

1234
00:47:54.416 --> 00:47:56.833
"No matter what we're
going through, I got you."

1235
00:47:56.916 --> 00:47:57.875
[John] Guys like Kevin
and them--

1236
00:47:57.958 --> 00:48:00.458
these guys are now saying,
"Okay,

1237
00:48:00.541 --> 00:48:02.541
I understand the significance

1238
00:48:02.625 --> 00:48:03.916
of my ability
to play basketball.

1239
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.958
I'm gonna use that
to influence a kid

1240
00:48:07.041 --> 00:48:09.041
who might not have
my ability to play it

1241
00:48:09.125 --> 00:48:13.416
to do other things
or to aspire to be successful,"

1242
00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:14.666
and I'm as proud as I can be

1243
00:48:14.750 --> 00:48:16.291
to see
that they're doing that.

1244
00:48:16.375 --> 00:48:19.291
[Kevin] It might have our name
on the side of the building,

1245
00:48:19.375 --> 00:48:21.416
but it's your home,
so enjoy it,

1246
00:48:21.500 --> 00:48:24.166
make it yours,
and the future starts here.

1247
00:48:24.250 --> 00:48:25.833
[Brown] In any facet
of society,

1248
00:48:25.916 --> 00:48:27.875
whether you're talking
education,

1249
00:48:27.958 --> 00:48:29.208
whether you're talking
business,

1250
00:48:29.291 --> 00:48:31.708
there are those
who've come before us

1251
00:48:31.791 --> 00:48:34.333
upon whose shoulders we stand.

1252
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.791
[announcer] Rumson!

1253
00:48:37.875 --> 00:48:39.666
[Bianca] For all the work
that each generation did,

1254
00:48:39.750 --> 00:48:43.791
decade by decade
by decade,

1255
00:48:43.875 --> 00:48:45.666
it fed our ambition
and our dreams and our hopes.

1256
00:48:45.750 --> 00:48:47.916
[Victor]
It's just gonna continue

1257
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:49.416
to keep being like that,

1258
00:48:49.500 --> 00:48:51.708
because we live
and breathe it here.

1259
00:48:51.791 --> 00:48:53.833
Prince George's packs
a lot of power,

1260
00:48:53.916 --> 00:48:56.166
a lot of character.

1261
00:48:56.250 --> 00:48:57.166
We take pride in--
in being from this county.

1262
00:48:57.250 --> 00:49:01.166
[man] I carry PG
like a badge of honor.

1263
00:49:01.250 --> 00:49:02.583
[Navarro] It comes back
to this hunger

1264
00:49:02.666 --> 00:49:04.750
and this commitment.

1265
00:49:04.833 --> 00:49:05.750
We are
from Prince George's County.

1266
00:49:05.833 --> 00:49:08.416
We are not playing with nobody.

1267
00:49:09.250 --> 00:49:12.375
[Victor] I never forget
where I come from.

1268
00:49:12.458 --> 00:49:14.666
I wouldn't be who I am
without DeMatha.

1269
00:49:14.750 --> 00:49:17.458
I wouldn't be who I am
without PG County.

1270
00:49:17.541 --> 00:49:20.416
At the end of the day,
this is home.

1271
00:49:20.500 --> 00:49:22.416
[man] Love, sweat, and tears
have all shaped

1272
00:49:22.500 --> 00:49:25.416
the generational legacy
of PG County basketball,

1273
00:49:25.500 --> 00:49:26.333
but folks from the county know

1274
00:49:26.416 --> 00:49:27.625
there's still a mysterious
essence

1275
00:49:27.708 --> 00:49:30.875
hard to explain.

1276
00:49:30.958 --> 00:49:33.458
[man]
I don't know, man.

1277
00:49:33.541 --> 00:49:36.250
It's just in the water.

1278
00:49:36.333 --> 00:49:39.250
♪ spacey music ♪

1279
00:49:57.375 --> 00:50:00.291
♪ energetic hip-hop music ♪

1280
00:50:00.375 --> 00:50:02.791
♪ Hey, hey ♪

1281
00:50:02.875 --> 00:50:04.541
♪ Hey ♪

1282
00:50:04.625 --> 00:50:06.375
♪ Hey, yeah ♪

1283
00:50:06.458 --> 00:50:08.291
♪ Hey, yeah ♪

1284
00:50:08.375 --> 00:50:09.833
♪ Hey, yeah ♪

1285
00:50:09.916 --> 00:50:11.458
♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

1286
00:50:11.541 --> 00:50:17.375
♪♪♪

1287
00:51:03.333 --> 00:51:08.291
♪♪♪

1288
00:51:38.333 --> 00:51:39.208
[bright tone]