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1 00:01:51,015 --> 00:01:54,974 And welcome to the 38th annual NBA All-Star game... 2 00:01:55,085 --> 00:01:56,814 from Chicago Stadium. 3 00:01:56,921 --> 00:01:58,821 A standing-room-only crowd. 4 00:01:58,923 --> 00:02:03,360 A steal by Jordan. he spun it away from the Mailman. 5 00:02:17,041 --> 00:02:19,509 Just needs a little time-out to reorganize. 6 00:02:19,610 --> 00:02:22,579 And the chances of a West comeback are slipping away. 7 00:02:24,548 --> 00:02:26,573 Aguirre for three. 8 00:02:26,684 --> 00:02:29,050 I have never seen an All-Star game... 9 00:02:29,153 --> 00:02:31,747 that had such spectacular passing... 10 00:02:31,855 --> 00:02:34,016 and plays, and thundering plays like this. 11 00:02:34,124 --> 00:02:36,524 They're beginning to hang, Billy. 12 00:02:37,628 --> 00:02:40,062 Ah, what a way to end this ball game. 13 00:02:55,112 --> 00:02:58,513 Right now, I wanna, you know, play in the NBA... 14 00:02:58,615 --> 00:03:01,709 like anybody else would wanna be. 15 00:03:02,753 --> 00:03:05,017 That's who - That's something... 16 00:03:05,122 --> 00:03:07,784 I dream and think about all the time - 17 00:03:07,891 --> 00:03:09,791 playing in the NBA. 18 00:03:15,733 --> 00:03:18,065 he's just doing something that he loves so much. 19 00:03:19,103 --> 00:03:22,834 he just love it so much. I'm just happy for him. 20 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:24,840 If somebody can understand the way William play... 21 00:03:24,942 --> 00:03:27,502 that'll make me feel a lot better. 22 00:03:27,611 --> 00:03:30,546 The way they should have understood the way I played. 23 00:03:38,822 --> 00:03:42,485 This Chicagoan is making his seventh All-Star appearance. 24 00:03:42,593 --> 00:03:45,118 From the Detroit Pistons, 6'1 "... 25 00:03:45,229 --> 00:03:47,857 Isiah Thomas! 26 00:03:50,367 --> 00:03:52,358 When I get in the NBA... 27 00:03:52,469 --> 00:03:55,404 the first thing I'm gonna do... 28 00:03:55,506 --> 00:03:59,135 I'm gonna see my mama, buy her a house... 29 00:03:59,243 --> 00:04:02,679 I'm gonna go there and make sure my sister and my brother's okay. 30 00:04:02,780 --> 00:04:05,112 If we were okay or not. 31 00:04:05,215 --> 00:04:07,843 Probably get my dad... 32 00:04:07,951 --> 00:04:09,942 a Cadillac Oldsmobile... 33 00:04:10,054 --> 00:04:12,022 so he can cruise in the games. 34 00:04:12,122 --> 00:04:13,817 Something real long. 35 00:04:13,924 --> 00:04:15,983 Dominique.! Ooh.! 36 00:04:17,094 --> 00:04:20,063 he dreams about it. 37 00:04:20,164 --> 00:04:22,428 he look at those basketball commercials... 38 00:04:22,533 --> 00:04:25,331 where they be advertising these Nike shoes? 39 00:04:25,436 --> 00:04:27,495 he'll tell his little, small brother... 40 00:04:27,604 --> 00:04:29,504 "Joe,Joe, that's me. " 41 00:04:29,606 --> 00:04:33,940 So the West leads. Thomas trying to go the distance. Loses it. 42 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,349 I don't even think about it, if he don't make it. 43 00:04:47,458 --> 00:04:49,756 Just 'cause I'm so - 44 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:51,953 I'm so, you know, focused in on him making it. 45 00:04:52,062 --> 00:04:53,962 I just know he'll make it. 46 00:05:30,167 --> 00:05:35,230 I'm off to Central... 47 00:05:35,339 --> 00:05:37,307 and the Congress Expressway- 48 00:05:37,407 --> 00:05:41,366 a park over there where there are some pretty talented young men. 49 00:05:41,478 --> 00:05:45,812 Earl Smith works downtown as an insurance executive. 50 00:05:45,916 --> 00:05:50,012 On weekends he's an unofficial talent scout for several area high schools. 51 00:05:55,692 --> 00:05:57,887 This is what you call "beating the bushes. " 52 00:05:57,995 --> 00:06:00,896 This is the job of most of your freshmen coaches... 53 00:06:00,998 --> 00:06:05,094 and guys like me who - who played a little bit of the game... 54 00:06:05,202 --> 00:06:08,694 who love trying to help young people on the road to success. 55 00:06:10,774 --> 00:06:12,674 It's in! It's in! 56 00:06:14,478 --> 00:06:18,346 Today Earl spots Arthur Agee, whojust graduated from grammar school. 57 00:06:19,416 --> 00:06:23,011 he's g***t the quickest first step that I've seen in about five years. 58 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,020 his first step. 59 00:06:28,892 --> 00:06:32,589 I will bet you a steak dinner in four years you'll be hearing from him. 60 00:06:32,696 --> 00:06:35,130 I don't even know anything about him. 61 00:06:50,013 --> 00:06:51,861 Several days later, 62 00:06:51,862 --> 00:06:53,710 Earl takes Arthur and his family on a recruiting visit... 63 00:06:53,817 --> 00:06:57,253 to the high school where NBA star Isiah Thomas played. 64 00:06:57,354 --> 00:06:59,379 The visit will give St. Joseph's coaches... 65 00:06:59,489 --> 00:07:01,480 a chance to see Arthur perform. 66 00:07:10,434 --> 00:07:12,959 Your role today, Arthur... 67 00:07:13,070 --> 00:07:16,062 is to impress the coaches. 68 00:07:16,173 --> 00:07:18,198 Try not to be too fancy. 69 00:07:18,308 --> 00:07:20,776 Take the open shot when you have it. 70 00:07:21,812 --> 00:07:24,781 Play good defense and make good passes. 71 00:07:24,881 --> 00:07:27,441 The rest of it, just play natural,you know. 72 00:07:29,086 --> 00:07:32,954 I'm hoping I'm gonna go to St. Joe and play... 73 00:07:33,056 --> 00:07:37,220 but first I gotta - I gotta get my books straight. 74 00:07:37,327 --> 00:07:39,818 And... 75 00:07:39,930 --> 00:07:43,388 hopefully come out and impress the coaches. 76 00:07:44,968 --> 00:07:47,835 Is it kinda scary? 77 00:07:47,938 --> 00:07:49,906 Yes, it is. 78 00:07:52,809 --> 00:07:56,438 I've never been to a school way out before... 79 00:07:56,546 --> 00:08:00,778 and I would be going to a school with different kids, different races. 80 00:08:02,653 --> 00:08:06,783 You can look at the scenery, new friends to meet. 81 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,390 What if Isiah's there today? 82 00:08:15,432 --> 00:08:18,230 Well, if he be there... 83 00:08:19,336 --> 00:08:21,463 I'll be shocked... 84 00:08:21,571 --> 00:08:24,096 'cause that'd be my first time ever seeing him... 85 00:08:24,207 --> 00:08:26,903 up close, you know, real life. 86 00:08:32,849 --> 00:08:36,683 Basketball has to be second to your academics. 87 00:08:36,787 --> 00:08:38,846 If you don't get your grades, you're not gonna play. 88 00:08:38,955 --> 00:08:43,483 If you work hard at the grades, and if you work hard at basketball... 89 00:08:43,593 --> 00:08:46,391 then I would be able to help you as far as going to college. 90 00:08:46,496 --> 00:08:48,464 And I guarantee this. 91 00:08:48,565 --> 00:08:51,966 I can't promise you where you're gonna go and if you're gonna be a star... 92 00:08:52,069 --> 00:08:56,062 but I guarantee that I would help you get into the school... 93 00:08:56,173 --> 00:08:58,664 that would be best for you. 94 00:08:58,775 --> 00:09:01,073 I'm making a commitment to you... 95 00:09:01,178 --> 00:09:04,204 if you make a commitment to being part of this kind of a program. 96 00:09:09,986 --> 00:09:13,581 Out of all of the kids at the St. Joseph Basketball Camp... 97 00:09:13,690 --> 00:09:16,716 there are a few like Arthur that Coach Pingatore is recruiting. 98 00:09:20,664 --> 00:09:23,861 It was like million of guys trying to be better than the other... 99 00:09:23,967 --> 00:09:27,459 but, to me, I was better than all of them... 100 00:09:27,571 --> 00:09:30,039 except Isiah. 101 00:09:30,140 --> 00:09:34,634 It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you a graduate of St. Joe's... 102 00:09:34,745 --> 00:09:37,305 high school all-American... 103 00:09:37,414 --> 00:09:40,906 all-American from Indiana University... 104 00:09:41,017 --> 00:09:43,247 five-time NBAAll-Star... 105 00:09:43,353 --> 00:09:45,548 Isiah Thomas. 106 00:09:45,655 --> 00:09:49,489 hello. how are you? 107 00:09:49,593 --> 00:09:53,791 In everybody's neighborhood, there's a guy who can really play. 108 00:09:53,897 --> 00:09:55,797 he can shoot the lights out. 109 00:09:55,899 --> 00:09:59,494 Every time down the court - Swish, swish, swish! 110 00:09:59,603 --> 00:10:02,766 Then he goes to St. Joseph high School... 111 00:10:02,873 --> 00:10:05,899 and the guy gets cut. 112 00:10:06,009 --> 00:10:10,070 You say, "But Tom was real good. Why did he get cut?'" 113 00:10:10,180 --> 00:10:13,877 See, Tom didn't learn the fundamentals of team basketball... 114 00:10:13,984 --> 00:10:16,452 which is what you're learning how to play. 115 00:10:31,468 --> 00:10:33,936 he told my daddy that he knew I could play... 116 00:10:34,037 --> 00:10:35,971 so hejust had to play me hard. 117 00:10:52,022 --> 00:10:55,856 I can see the playground in him. I can see talent. 118 00:10:55,959 --> 00:10:58,257 But I don't see the confidence. 119 00:11:02,833 --> 00:11:06,325 With Isiah, I just knew he was gonna be a great one. 120 00:11:06,436 --> 00:11:11,339 he had that total combination of personality, confidence, talent... 121 00:11:11,441 --> 00:11:13,500 intelligence. 122 00:11:13,610 --> 00:11:17,876 I think I see it in one kid that's coming here. 123 00:11:17,981 --> 00:11:22,350 he flows with a smoothness and confidence... 124 00:11:22,452 --> 00:11:24,352 and strength... 125 00:11:24,454 --> 00:11:26,979 that you don't see in every kid. 126 00:11:27,090 --> 00:11:30,150 But he could become a great player....