They will wait for the NBA to come calling for them. They both said they still have the dream but they aren’t going to chase it. It’s hard to believe that William was once the better player. In conclusion, the dream was just as hard for William as it was for Arthur, William just made it a little closer.Īrthur and William still play pick-up games down at the playgrounds they became great. William ended up marrying Catherine, which he already had two kids with and they moved back to Chicago. He ended up graduating and he hired an agent and they tried to get him into the NBA but they failed. This narrowed down William’s choices and he picked Marquette University. Additionally, he ripped cartilage in his knee and some schools were wondering if he could ever play again. However, he wasn’t able to get an SAT score of 18 so he wasn’t going to be eligible to play his freshman year. William kept improving and he was getting letters from major colleges all over the country. Eventually, Arthur left the team and is one of the few blacks in a Christian school made William feel even more out in space. William felt very bad about this but he knew that he couldn’t let this stop him if he was going to make it in the pros. This disappointed Arthur because he wasn’t used to seeing people better than he was.Īfter a while, William began to start and all of Arthur’s scholarship was being used for William. William impressed the coaches and he was moved up to varsity when he was a freshman. First exhibited at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the audience award for best documentary, Kartemquins Hoop Dreams is the remarkable true. It took William about two hours every day. He and Arthur both had to wake up around 5:30 every morning so they could get on the subway to make it to school in time. William Gates was also 14 when he was recruited to go to St. As you can see, it takes a lot for an inner-city boy to try and reach his dream, but most of the time it never happens. Arthur never did reach his dream of going to the NBA, at least yet. He finished his degree in communications and he graduated. After his two years in Mississippi, Arthur received a scholarship to Arkansas State. Arthur ended up going to a junior college named Mineral Area in Flat River Mississippi. They finished third in the state overall. He and the Marshall Commandos ended up going downstate Arthur’s senior year. Along with that, he couldn’t keep his grades up enough to attend a Division I school. As a result, Arthur could see his dreams of the NBA were slipping away. He was forced to enroll at Marshall, the area public school. Eventually, William turned out to be the better player, and all the attention and money were focused on him. They had become friends in grade school but had never really done anything together. Joe’s would be able to pay Arthur’s tuition if he played basketball for them. Big Earl, the guy who recruited Arthur told his family that St. Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA.
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