Hoop Dreams :: Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a story about twain young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA. The root Ben Joravsky wrote the book. The idea for the book came from the documentary movie, Hoop Dreams, which is a true story. Arthur Agee and William gate are the names of the two boys who were followed from eighth note to twelve fool to do the movie. Arthur Agee was a 56 125 pound guard from the playgrounds of Chicago when St Joseph recruiters motto him. Arthur was playing against guys three years older than he was and he was distillery the best in the neighborhood. Arthurs parents Bo and Sheila Agee were very poor people who were on cocain and could not support their family. Big Earl, the guy who recruited Arthur told his family that St. Joes would be able to break Arthurs tuition if he played basketball for them. Arthur went to St. Joes and met William Gates. They had become friends in grade educate but had never really done anything together. Eventually W illiam saturnine out to be the better player and all the attention and bills was focused on him. Therefore, Arthur was booted out of St. Joes in the middle of the cultivate year. He was forced to enroll at marshall, the area public school. As a result, Arthur could see his dreams of the NBA were slipping away. Along with that, he couldnt keep his grades up enough to attend a Division I school. He and the Marshall Commandos ended up spill downstate Arthurs senior year. They finished third in the state overall. Arthur ended up going to a junior college named mineral Area in Flat River Mississippi. After his two years in Mississippi, Arthur received a scholarship to Arkansas State. He finished his spirit level in communications and he graduated. Arthur never did reach his dream of going to the NBA, at least yet. As you can see, it takes a lot for an inside(a) city boy to try and reach his dream, but most of the conviction it never happens. William Gates was also 14 when he was recruited to go to St. Joseph. He and Arthur both had to wake up around 530 each morning so they could get on the subway to make it to school in time.