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At the beginning of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, William Gates and Arthur Agee, two promising young basketball players from poor Chicago neighbourhoods, dream of what they’ll buy once they’re drafted into the nba: a house for Mom, a Cadillac for Dad – an exit, in short, from the cycle of poverty, addiction and systemic racism that’s defined their lives so far. As Gates explains, “Basketball is my ticket out of the ghetto.”
The boys have just finished middle school and are soon recruited by St. Joseph’s, an upscale suburban high school, to fulfill the glory dreams of an abusive white coach. Agee gets cut after his freshman year and his family can’t afford a rise in tuition, so he transfers back to his neighbourhood school. Gates is kept on, supported by a private
