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'Hoop Reality' gets dream postscript

By Scoop Jackson
ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

In the documentary "Hoop Reality," there is a scene in which then-Marshall High School basketball coach Lamont Bryant gives his team a stern warning about potential pitfalls. "Y'all don't even understand this inner-city [expletive]," he tells a bus full of kids from Chicago's hardscrabble West Side, a neighborhood that literally defines "inner city." "Go to the wrong [area] and anything can happen." Then he singles out superstar guard Patrick Beverley in blunt, controversial words. "Patrick ...

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