WEBVTT 00:00:13.977 --> 00:00:16.271 Allahu akbar. 00:00:16.354 --> 00:00:17.981 Allahu akbar. 00:00:20.275 --> 00:00:23.445 - As-salaamu alaykum. As-salaamu alaykum. 00:00:23.528 --> 00:00:26.072 - As-salaamu alaykum. As-salaamu alaykum. 00:00:28.742 --> 00:00:30.910 Islam means... 00:00:30.994 --> 00:00:33.747 living in submission. 00:00:34.539 --> 00:00:36.166 To be a Muslim 00:00:36.291 --> 00:00:39.836 is to live in submission to the will of God. 00:00:39.919 --> 00:00:42.505 It is to cut bonds to all the men we followed 00:00:43.590 --> 00:00:45.133 in our lives. 00:00:45.216 --> 00:00:46.676 Our leaders. 00:00:47.635 --> 00:00:48.845 Our coaches. 00:00:49.637 --> 00:00:52.223 Our fathers. 00:00:52.348 --> 00:00:55.727 Your ancestors were slaves to men. 00:00:56.895 --> 00:00:58.480 From this day on... 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:03.026 you are a slave to God. 00:01:04.152 --> 00:01:06.321 Brother Lewis, please come up. 00:01:11.868 --> 00:01:13.495 This brother 00:01:13.578 --> 00:01:16.331 has decided to open his heart to Islam. 00:01:16.414 --> 00:01:18.541 Allahu akbar. 00:01:22.962 --> 00:01:24.464 If you're prepared... 00:01:25.757 --> 00:01:27.467 to walk the straight path, 00:01:27.550 --> 00:01:29.135 say the words with me. 00:01:45.526 --> 00:01:49.239 - Amen. As-salaamu alaykum. - Wa alaykumu salaam. 00:01:49.364 --> 00:01:51.866 The world will be looking to you, brother. 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:54.786 More than most. 00:01:54.869 --> 00:01:57.205 Who will you be to them? 00:01:57.288 --> 00:01:59.791 Lewis Alcindor, Jr. 00:01:59.874 --> 00:02:02.252 What is your name? 00:02:05.046 --> 00:02:08.007 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 00:03:46.981 --> 00:03:49.317 Oh shit. You got your game face on. 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:50.610 Just my face, Maurice. 00:03:50.693 --> 00:03:52.153 It's scary nonetheless. 00:03:52.236 --> 00:03:53.905 What's the word on Cowboy Clifton? 00:03:53.988 --> 00:03:56.407 I got my eyes peeled. Man, I hate scalpers. 00:03:56.532 --> 00:03:58.826 I see that *, I'ma give him a ass-whooping 00:03:58.910 --> 00:04:01.287 - of a lifetime. - Give him these instead. That's a thousand tickets. 00:04:01.370 --> 00:04:02.997 Tell him there's more where that came from, 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:04.874 and he can spread the word. Can't have this place 00:04:04.957 --> 00:04:06.751 looking like a ghost town on national TV. 00:04:06.834 --> 00:04:08.377 So, I can't * him up? 00:04:08.503 --> 00:04:10.254 Wait until he gets those asses in those seats. 00:04:10.338 --> 00:04:11.756 - Okay. - Buss made some changes to the VIPs. 00:04:11.839 --> 00:04:13.841 Of course, he did. 00:04:13.925 --> 00:04:16.093 No way we're getting Dionne Warwick. 00:04:16.177 --> 00:04:18.888 - You can always say a little prayer. - Is that a new awning? 00:04:18.971 --> 00:04:20.640 He said it wasn't red enough. 00:04:21.057 --> 00:04:23.142 Great idea, Claire. You're just a girl I wanna see. 00:04:23.226 --> 00:04:25.311 I had a wiener from the cart for lunch, 00:04:25.394 --> 00:04:27.855 and it was... sloppy. 00:04:27.939 --> 00:04:31.067 - Heard oysters help with that. - I'm being serious. 00:04:31.150 --> 00:04:33.528 It was the casing. When you bite into it, it's gotta snap. 00:04:33.653 --> 00:04:35.238 I know the feeling. 00:04:35.321 --> 00:04:37.281 We're going to need you to take a step back. 00:04:37.365 --> 00:04:39.659 God is in the details, Claire. 00:04:39.742 --> 00:04:41.202 That was our second choreographer. 00:04:41.285 --> 00:04:42.870 You've sent back all the uniforms. 00:04:42.954 --> 00:04:45.873 Because they stunk. And if they stink, we stink. 00:04:45.957 --> 00:04:47.875 - Only if we open! - What the hell is that supposed to mean? 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:49.669 Apparently, our sound system 00:04:49.752 --> 00:04:51.254 wasn't up to your high standards. 00:04:51.337 --> 00:04:53.256 Claire, what the hell is this? 00:04:53.339 --> 00:04:55.716 My guy said these speakers are supposed to be up already! 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:57.593 Same system as Club Fantasia! 00:04:57.718 --> 00:04:59.804 That's not the system we permitted with the city. 00:04:59.887 --> 00:05:01.305 Well, get a new permit! 00:05:01.389 --> 00:05:03.432 In process, as of this morning. 00:05:03.516 --> 00:05:05.810 - We'll have it in a week or two. - A week or two? 00:05:05.893 --> 00:05:08.312 Claire, you have got to put some pepper on the ball. 00:05:08.396 --> 00:05:10.314 That is pepper on the ball. 00:05:10.398 --> 00:05:12.817 But, I don't suppose your Fantasia friend mentioned that 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:15.194 before you ripped out our entire sound system 00:05:15.278 --> 00:05:17.571 because that's not his job or yours. It's mine. 00:05:17.697 --> 00:05:19.156 Claire, I'm not opening this place 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.034 unless we're 110% ready. 00:05:22.118 --> 00:05:24.203 You only get one chance at a first impression. 00:05:24.287 --> 00:05:25.997 That's why it's called a first impression. 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:27.290 W-w-what is this? 00:05:27.373 --> 00:05:29.250 Claire, come on. 00:05:29.333 --> 00:05:30.876 This little door thing should be flush with the bar. 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:32.169 Flush with the bar! Come on. 00:05:32.253 --> 00:05:33.754 Let's care about stuff. 00:05:33.838 --> 00:05:35.214 No more kinks! Let's care about it! 00:05:35.298 --> 00:05:37.008 Let's be perfect! 00:05:37.091 --> 00:05:40.261 Jerry! We need to talk! 00:05:40.344 --> 00:05:43.431 - Hello?! We need to talk! - Hey, Frank. 00:05:44.307 --> 00:05:45.474 Here we go. 00:05:48.352 --> 00:05:50.730 You yelling at me in front of everybody? What? 00:05:50.855 --> 00:05:53.566 - I gotta hear about this from your mother? - That's our bookkeeper. 00:05:53.649 --> 00:05:56.027 She's a goddamn good one, too. She found us a solution. 00:05:56.110 --> 00:05:59.155 Excellent solution. Give away the team? 00:05:59.238 --> 00:06:01.532 To Joanne. It stays in the family. Did you read it? 00:06:01.615 --> 00:06:03.576 - She hates your guts. - So what? 00:06:03.659 --> 00:06:05.286 She loves me more. 00:06:05.369 --> 00:06:07.621 Just like you, Frankie. I was going to tell you. 00:06:07.705 --> 00:06:09.999 - When, at my *in' funeral? - I forgot! 00:06:10.082 --> 00:06:11.751 - You forgot?! - Frank, 00:06:11.876 --> 00:06:13.627 look what we have! 00:06:13.711 --> 00:06:15.671 Look what we did! Look at it! 00:06:15.755 --> 00:06:16.881 The team we got! 00:06:16.964 --> 00:06:18.966 We're Roman emperors! 00:06:19.050 --> 00:06:20.801 Yeah, okay. You're a Roman emperor. 00:06:20.926 --> 00:06:23.512 Well, I got news for you. Rome is * ruins, 00:06:23.596 --> 00:06:27.391 and I don't think you're going to be happy until we are, too! 00:06:27.475 --> 00:06:29.769 I don't know, Jerry! Maybe that will do it for you 00:06:29.894 --> 00:06:32.229 because clearly nothing else does! 00:06:32.313 --> 00:06:34.523 Not the buildings, not the broads, 00:06:34.607 --> 00:06:36.567 n-not the friendship! 00:06:36.650 --> 00:06:38.944 And pretty soon, it's gonna be the same thing over there! 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:44.408 We're done. 00:06:44.492 --> 00:06:46.035 We're done? 00:06:47.161 --> 00:06:49.413 We're partners! 00:06:56.545 --> 00:06:57.963 Allahu akbar. 00:06:58.047 --> 00:07:00.090 Allahu akbar. 00:07:00.174 --> 00:07:02.009 Allahu akbar... 00:07:45.094 --> 00:07:47.596 Lewis Alcindor, Jr., of Power Memorial High school 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.932 with an epic showing here tonight. 00:07:50.015 --> 00:07:52.309 An extraordinary young man. 00:07:53.644 --> 00:07:55.980 Alcindor leading Wooden's Bruins 00:07:56.063 --> 00:07:59.275 to a third consecutive championship and lossless season. 00:07:59.358 --> 00:08:00.943 My, oh, my... 00:08:01.026 --> 00:08:02.278 Young Lewis Alcindor, 00:08:02.361 --> 00:08:04.738 now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 00:08:04.822 --> 00:08:08.617 in his first season after leading the Bucks to a world championship. 00:08:37.354 --> 00:08:38.605 Get past. 00:08:38.689 --> 00:08:39.898 Whoo! 00:08:40.691 --> 00:08:42.526 You're in early. 00:08:42.609 --> 00:08:44.111 Bouncin' off the walls. Figured I'd come here 00:08:44.194 --> 00:08:46.030 and get some work done. 00:08:46.113 --> 00:08:48.866 Oscar used to do the same thing when we were in Milwaukee. 00:08:48.991 --> 00:08:51.035 - The Big O? - Day one as an assistant, 00:08:51.118 --> 00:08:52.995 I made it my mission 00:08:53.078 --> 00:08:54.872 to be the first to practice, 00:08:54.997 --> 00:08:57.541 and I think Oscar made it his mission to beat me. 00:08:57.624 --> 00:08:59.335 - So, as the season went on, 00:08:59.418 --> 00:09:01.628 I showed up earlier and earlier, 00:09:01.712 --> 00:09:04.131 he'd be there every damn time, dripping sweat. 00:09:06.091 --> 00:09:08.135 You know it's on now, right, Coach? 00:09:09.011 --> 00:09:10.179 About time. 00:09:12.389 --> 00:09:14.058 What's wrong, Coach? You ain't happy? 00:09:14.141 --> 00:09:16.352 You tell me. 00:09:16.435 --> 00:09:18.187 I wonder how you think you've been performing. 00:09:18.270 --> 00:09:19.855 Well, it's kind of hard to say 00:09:19.938 --> 00:09:21.732 since we ain't played a game yet, but... 00:09:21.815 --> 00:09:25.277 shot coming around, feeling relaxed in the break. 00:09:25.361 --> 00:09:27.029 Why? What you feelin'? 00:09:27.112 --> 00:09:29.406 Disappointment. When I came in, 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:31.909 I thought you'd take charge. 00:09:32.034 --> 00:09:33.243 I thought you'd direct the show. 00:09:33.327 --> 00:09:34.578 Ain't that what I been doin'? 00:09:34.661 --> 00:09:36.413 I mean, me and Norm. 00:09:36.497 --> 00:09:38.457 You the one who put us together-- 00:09:38.540 --> 00:09:40.125 I'm not talking about a point guard. 00:09:40.209 --> 00:09:42.294 I'm talking about a captain of the ship. 00:09:42.377 --> 00:09:43.629 Right now, when I look out, 00:09:43.712 --> 00:09:45.881 I see four guys rowing together, 00:09:45.964 --> 00:09:48.258 and one big anchor left behind. 00:09:48.342 --> 00:09:50.803 Well, yeah, but Kareem the captain. 00:09:50.886 --> 00:09:52.888 I can't go around as a rookie, telling-- 00:09:52.971 --> 00:09:54.515 Somebody's got to. 00:09:55.974 --> 00:09:58.393 You know, just at the last practice... 00:09:59.728 --> 00:10:01.605 Kareem came up to me, 00:10:01.688 --> 00:10:04.858 the end of practice, and he said, um... 00:10:04.942 --> 00:10:06.735 "When is that young buck going to take over?" 00:10:06.819 --> 00:10:08.695 For real? 00:10:08.779 --> 00:10:10.322 Cap said that? 00:10:10.405 --> 00:10:11.657 Unless you think I should go to Norm. 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:13.617 Nah! Hell no, Coach! No, no. 00:10:15.327 --> 00:10:17.830 I can't let the big fella down. 00:10:17.913 --> 00:10:20.541 - I got you. - I thought you might. 00:10:20.624 --> 00:10:21.708 Go on. I'll rebound. 00:10:28.090 --> 00:10:30.717 Come on, Cap! Run! Run with the play! 00:10:32.302 --> 00:10:34.137 Kareem looks like a *in' tree trunk! 00:10:34.221 --> 00:10:36.515 - I know. Keep it moving! - Move your feet! 00:10:36.598 --> 00:10:38.433 Come on, Magic! Show 'em how it's done! 00:10:38.517 --> 00:10:40.602 Hey, Cooper! Stay in the corner! 00:10:40.686 --> 00:10:42.646 I'm coming to you, Cap! Go to the basket, big man! 00:10:42.729 --> 00:10:44.147 - Move your feet! - Throw me the *in' ball. 00:10:44.231 --> 00:10:45.816 This one's for you! Go get it! 00:10:56.243 --> 00:10:58.412 Thought you saw me there, big fella. 00:10:58.495 --> 00:11:00.247 Look, if you hit a spin and rolled to the basket-- 00:11:00.330 --> 00:11:01.707 You can meet me where I'm at. 00:11:01.790 --> 00:11:03.250 Yeah, but I'm trying to get you 00:11:03.333 --> 00:11:04.835 on the floor of the offense, baby! 00:11:04.918 --> 00:11:06.753 - Yeah, that *ed. - Do you want me to, uh, 00:11:06.837 --> 00:11:08.672 I can run a mini-clinic with Kareem, zero in on his footwork. 00:11:08.755 --> 00:11:11.675 - Call it! Bring it in, guys. 00:11:11.758 --> 00:11:14.136 Alright, we've all seen enough of these last few weeks 00:11:14.219 --> 00:11:17.264 to know that if we play our game and stick to the system, 00:11:18.348 --> 00:11:19.850 nobody can beat us. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:21.727 Just ourselves. 00:11:24.813 --> 00:11:27.399 - Team on three! - Let's go. 00:11:27.482 --> 00:11:29.735 - One, two, three, team! - Team! 00:11:29.818 --> 00:11:31.695 Hey, Cap, hold up. 00:11:31.778 --> 00:11:33.238 Come on, man, give me 15 minutes. 00:11:33.322 --> 00:11:34.573 Practice is over, Houdini. 00:11:38.577 --> 00:11:41.455 - Boys. - I need good news. 00:11:41.538 --> 00:11:43.540 It's trout season. 00:11:43.624 --> 00:11:45.876 But I got somethin' better for you in the meantime. 00:11:45.959 --> 00:11:48.462 I spoke to Spencer Haywood's agent. 00:11:48.545 --> 00:11:50.631 He's available, and he's motivated. 00:11:50.714 --> 00:11:52.758 And humbled? 00:11:52.841 --> 00:11:54.593 I need a role player, not a star. 00:11:54.676 --> 00:11:56.303 What * choice does he have in the matter? 00:11:56.386 --> 00:11:58.055 That ship sailed four teams ago. 00:11:58.180 --> 00:11:59.973 He knows it. Team knows it. League knows it. 00:12:00.057 --> 00:12:01.516 He's ready to roll up his sleeves, 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.393 bang, bruise, do the dirty work, 00:12:03.477 --> 00:12:05.062 whatever it takes, whatever you need. 00:12:05.187 --> 00:12:07.189 Just so long as it gets him one of these. 00:12:07.272 --> 00:12:09.483 Well, we could use a lot more of that attitude around here. 00:12:09.566 --> 00:12:12.402 - Yeah, I saw that. - Jerry, what the hell do I do about Kareem? 00:12:12.486 --> 00:12:15.364 - It's a brick wall. - Well, don't offer him any pork. 00:12:15.447 --> 00:12:17.699 How soon can we get Haywood? 00:12:17.783 --> 00:12:19.117 I think we can get this done. He's ready to move. 00:12:19.242 --> 00:12:20.911 Hey, Jerry. Hi, Jerry. 00:12:20.994 --> 00:12:22.496 - Hey, Paul. 00:12:22.579 --> 00:12:24.581 You're doing a great job as assistant coach. 00:12:24.664 --> 00:12:26.083 I'm really trying my best. 00:12:26.208 --> 00:12:28.502 Well, I recognize that. 00:12:28.585 --> 00:12:31.046 And I appreciate all of your efforts. 00:12:31.129 --> 00:12:32.672 Thanks. 00:12:39.262 --> 00:12:41.223 - Bus is waiting. 00:12:41.306 --> 00:12:43.392 Yeah, what's he need? 00:12:43.475 --> 00:12:45.685 No, the one with the wheels. 00:12:48.522 --> 00:12:50.357 - Right. - Brought you a little something. 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.109 I thought you might wanna decorate. 00:12:53.110 --> 00:12:54.694 - San Juan. - Yeah. 00:12:54.778 --> 00:12:56.696 It's the chicken wire game. 00:12:56.780 --> 00:12:58.657 That was one angry mob. 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:00.951 I think that chicken wire might have saved our lives. 00:13:02.369 --> 00:13:04.371 Well, they're a passionate people. 00:13:06.748 --> 00:13:09.126 I guess I figured as far as opening nights go... 00:13:10.418 --> 00:13:12.462 can't get any worse. 00:13:12.546 --> 00:13:14.756 Not unless we lose to the Clippers. 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.716 * it. 00:13:16.800 --> 00:13:18.593 Let's go play some basketball. 00:13:19.845 --> 00:13:21.763 * it. 00:13:26.685 --> 00:13:28.562 Coming up, the Los Angeles Lakers 00:13:28.645 --> 00:13:30.313 take on the San Diego Clippers 00:13:30.397 --> 00:13:32.149 with announcers Brent Musburger... 00:13:32.274 --> 00:13:35.277 * amateur hour! Those network nitwits 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.780 wouldn't know a decent announcer from a Ken doll. 00:13:38.864 --> 00:13:40.699 Hey, * 'em, right? 00:13:40.782 --> 00:13:43.743 - I say we beat 'em at their own game. - Yeah. 00:13:43.827 --> 00:13:45.662 Hey, I don't know if you had a chance 00:13:45.745 --> 00:13:47.414 to check out the tape I cut together. 00:13:47.497 --> 00:13:49.708 You know, the one I did from training camp? 00:13:49.791 --> 00:13:51.543 - Yeah, yeah. - You know, tips from a pro. 00:13:51.626 --> 00:13:54.462 Huh? I think we could call it "Pat's Pointers." 00:13:54.546 --> 00:13:57.549 Presenting "Pat's Pointers with Pat Riley." 00:13:57.632 --> 00:13:59.759 Brought to you by AD Plumbing and Associates. 00:13:59.843 --> 00:14:02.178 I mean, we could call it "Chick's Checklist" or-- 00:14:02.304 --> 00:14:03.805 Patrick, do you see what this is? 00:14:05.473 --> 00:14:07.517 - Yeah, your hand. - That's my fist. 00:14:07.601 --> 00:14:09.769 When I close it while we're on the air, 00:14:09.853 --> 00:14:11.563 you close your mouth. 00:14:11.646 --> 00:14:14.065 That's the most important skill in this job. 00:14:14.149 --> 00:14:16.943 That's you talking. That's you shutting up. 00:14:17.694 --> 00:14:19.821 Comprende? 00:14:19.905 --> 00:14:23.575 Right, but when I am talking, right? When I do talk, 00:14:23.658 --> 00:14:25.911 you want it from, like, an insider, 00:14:25.994 --> 00:14:28.038 ex-player point of view, right? 00:14:28.121 --> 00:14:29.664 I'm fisting you, Pat. 00:14:29.748 --> 00:14:31.833 Now, pay attention. There's a rhythm to it. 00:14:31.917 --> 00:14:35.128 See? I call, you color. 00:14:35.211 --> 00:14:37.088 Like a paintbrush, with your tongue. 00:14:37.172 --> 00:14:39.799 After a while, it'll be, uh, like second nature to you. 00:14:39.883 --> 00:14:41.468 You won't even have to look. 00:14:43.011 --> 00:14:44.638 You'll feel it when you're getting fisted. 00:14:44.721 --> 00:14:47.057 - Oh, I'm feeling it already. 00:14:58.193 --> 00:15:00.987 - Come on, Patricia. We're walking. 00:15:02.155 --> 00:15:03.615 * it. 00:15:06.701 --> 00:15:09.663 Hey, Midnight. Got your strings out. 00:15:09.746 --> 00:15:11.956 Oh no, man, these are my good luck charms. 00:15:12.040 --> 00:15:13.958 Been doing this forever. 00:15:14.042 --> 00:15:15.835 Yeah? You do it last year when you blew your knee out? 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.005 Come on, man. Don't * with a man's superstition. 00:15:19.089 --> 00:15:21.633 For me, it was my lucky jock. Back in Cleveland, 00:15:21.716 --> 00:15:23.218 wore it all through the playoffs, 00:15:23.301 --> 00:15:24.928 all through the finals. 00:15:25.011 --> 00:15:26.388 Right until I broke my foot in half! 00:15:26.471 --> 00:15:27.764 That's disgusting, Chones. 00:15:34.646 --> 00:15:37.690 - Hey! It's EJ the DJ, coming to you live 00:15:37.774 --> 00:15:40.235 and direct from game one. 00:15:40.318 --> 00:15:42.445 With a beat to get you pumped. 00:15:42.529 --> 00:15:45.865 Okay! Okay! 00:15:45.949 --> 00:15:47.909 Hey, don't worry. I'm gonna be ready. 00:15:48.034 --> 00:15:49.285 I'm gonna be ready. 00:15:49.369 --> 00:15:52.122 What's up, Cap? 00:15:52.205 --> 00:15:53.748 Just need some orange juice now, right? 00:15:53.832 --> 00:15:55.208 Fresh squeezed. 00:15:58.420 --> 00:16:00.088 Hey, don't tell me this the place! 00:16:00.171 --> 00:16:02.882 About to get up in these Clippers' *! 00:16:02.966 --> 00:16:05.677 I thought you had to be good-looking out in California. 00:16:05.760 --> 00:16:07.595 Who let your ugly * in? 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.931 - Wood! - You know it. 00:16:12.100 --> 00:16:15.186 Hey! As-salaam alaykum, brother! 00:16:15.270 --> 00:16:17.313 - Spencer Haywood. 00:16:17.397 --> 00:16:19.566 It's a pleasure. You may never heard of me, 00:16:19.649 --> 00:16:21.067 but you've heard of Kobe Bryant, 00:16:21.151 --> 00:16:22.902 and LeBron James? 00:16:22.986 --> 00:16:24.904 Straight out of high school to the pros? 00:16:24.988 --> 00:16:26.656 That never would've happened without me. 00:16:26.739 --> 00:16:28.283 See, I'm the man who sued the league 00:16:28.366 --> 00:16:30.410 just for the right to play ball 00:16:30.493 --> 00:16:32.912 and support my family without four years of college. 00:16:32.996 --> 00:16:34.873 Now, that didn't make the owners all too happy, 00:16:34.956 --> 00:16:36.916 so now I bounced around a little in my time. 00:16:39.711 --> 00:16:41.629 But here I am, my day in the sun. 00:16:41.713 --> 00:16:43.006 You made it out alive? 00:16:43.131 --> 00:16:45.008 And it was a close call, man. Shit, 00:16:45.133 --> 00:16:47.677 I was about to be the only Black man in Salt Lake City. 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:49.804 Tell me, what * 00:16:49.888 --> 00:16:51.764 take a team called "Jazz" 00:16:51.848 --> 00:16:53.391 to Utah?! 00:16:53.474 --> 00:16:54.726 Better not tell Miles. 00:16:54.809 --> 00:16:56.728 Shit, man. Where my locker at? 00:16:56.811 --> 00:16:59.898 Have you ever seen Cap hug somebody? 00:16:59.981 --> 00:17:02.734 - I saw him put Bruce Lee in a sleeper hold. 00:17:05.111 --> 00:17:07.572 I'd hate to be competing with him for minutes. 00:17:07.655 --> 00:17:09.699 - That would be you. - Good luck with that. 00:17:13.077 --> 00:17:14.829 Nah. Nah. 00:17:14.913 --> 00:17:17.582 Nah, that can't be true. Can it? 00:17:17.665 --> 00:17:18.958 Believe it. 00:17:20.627 --> 00:17:23.546 *. Just got some minutes, too. 00:17:25.757 --> 00:17:28.760 - Got a minute, Cap? 00:17:31.262 --> 00:17:33.306 Look like I'm goin' someplace? 00:17:35.058 --> 00:17:37.852 Well, cool! Big night tonight. 00:17:37.936 --> 00:17:41.272 Can't wait! We 'bout to put it on. 00:17:41.356 --> 00:17:43.441 It's a game. We'll play. 00:17:43.524 --> 00:17:46.319 Yes, sir! Yes, we will. 00:17:46.402 --> 00:17:50.031 So, um, wonder how you feel the team been performing. 00:17:50.907 --> 00:17:52.492 It is what it is. 00:17:55.453 --> 00:17:58.665 Yeah. Yeah, good point. 00:17:58.748 --> 00:18:01.709 See, I wasn't too sure about the plan in the beginning. 00:18:01.793 --> 00:18:06.339 Coach McKinney, all them birds and bees. 00:18:06.422 --> 00:18:08.800 Everybody wants to reinvent the game of basketball. 00:18:08.925 --> 00:18:10.802 Sure! 00:18:10.927 --> 00:18:14.263 But, you know, since we've been running it in practice, 00:18:14.347 --> 00:18:16.307 I think we gettin' a sight of what it could be. 00:18:16.391 --> 00:18:18.142 Me and the other guys. 00:18:18.226 --> 00:18:21.062 But the biggest thing I see 00:18:21.145 --> 00:18:23.356 is you and me. 00:18:25.358 --> 00:18:26.901 Is that right? 00:18:26.984 --> 00:18:29.445 Hell yeah! Long as I've been watching, 00:18:29.529 --> 00:18:32.073 you've been working hard for every basket, 00:18:32.156 --> 00:18:33.991 double, tripled in the post. 00:18:34.075 --> 00:18:36.327 But we get out and run like McKinney say? 00:18:36.411 --> 00:18:39.580 Man, my size, my skill? 00:18:39.664 --> 00:18:41.207 I can get you the ball in ways 00:18:41.290 --> 00:18:43.084 you ain't never got the ball before. 00:18:43.167 --> 00:18:46.212 Put another 10 points on your average, easy. 00:18:46.295 --> 00:18:49.090 Plus we be whooping everybody, dig? 00:18:50.800 --> 00:18:52.760 You got a lot of ideas, young fella. 00:18:52.844 --> 00:18:55.930 Ideas be talk, Cap. This some shit I know! 00:18:56.013 --> 00:18:59.100 Way I can move the rock? What you can do with it? 00:19:00.059 --> 00:19:01.018 Man. 00:19:01.102 --> 00:19:02.687 Us together? 00:19:02.770 --> 00:19:04.647 That could be the thing to see. 00:19:04.730 --> 00:19:07.608 Cap and Buck. Magic and Kareem. 00:19:10.278 --> 00:19:12.238 Oh, oh! Kareem and Magic. 00:19:15.116 --> 00:19:17.869 Ain't never been a combo like it! 00:19:17.994 --> 00:19:20.746 All-all we gotta do is both show up. 00:19:26.002 --> 00:19:28.379 You two have fun. 00:19:32.842 --> 00:19:36.637 - How many games have you played? - Since I was a pup. 00:19:39.474 --> 00:19:42.101 Yet never once 00:19:42.185 --> 00:19:43.728 as a professional. 00:19:44.604 --> 00:19:46.230 Tonight... 00:19:46.314 --> 00:19:49.567 will be my 853rd game. 00:19:50.443 --> 00:19:52.653 In this league. 00:19:52.737 --> 00:19:54.906 In that time, I've won... 00:19:55.031 --> 00:19:57.491 five MVPs 00:19:57.575 --> 00:20:00.328 and a world championship. 00:20:00.411 --> 00:20:03.206 And that's not counting college titles-- where 00:20:03.289 --> 00:20:06.000 I assume your hubris 00:20:06.083 --> 00:20:07.585 comes from-- 00:20:09.462 --> 00:20:11.839 winning one. 00:20:11.923 --> 00:20:14.926 Since you don't strike me as much of a historian, 00:20:15.051 --> 00:20:17.386 I'll have you know 00:20:17.470 --> 00:20:19.430 I won three. 00:20:19.513 --> 00:20:22.183 And I would have an Olympic gold. 00:20:22.266 --> 00:20:25.353 As long as Black people in this country continue to catch hell, 00:20:25.436 --> 00:20:27.396 I will not be representing the United States 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:29.523 at the Olympics. 00:20:29.607 --> 00:20:32.276 But, there are more important things in this life. 00:20:34.070 --> 00:20:36.155 Enjoy game one. 00:20:42.036 --> 00:20:45.122 Lakers! Lakers! Lakers! 00:20:45.206 --> 00:20:48.626 - Lakers! Lakers! Lakers! Lakers! 00:20:48.709 --> 00:20:50.795 First game! Let's go. 00:20:50.878 --> 00:20:52.797 Ladies and gentlemen, 00:20:52.797 --> 00:20:54.548 the Los Angeles Lakers! 00:20:59.178 --> 00:21:01.347 Let's go, Cap! Let's go! 00:21:04.141 --> 00:21:06.644 Yeah, yeah, whatever. Whatever. 00:21:06.727 --> 00:21:08.604 - Oh, boo yourself! 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:14.110 ...James Powell, who was gunned down on Thursday 00:21:14.193 --> 00:21:17.029 by NYPD Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan. 00:21:17.154 --> 00:21:19.615 Gilligan claims the young man charged him with a knife, 00:21:19.699 --> 00:21:22.868 but bystanders from Powell's ninth grade class 00:21:22.952 --> 00:21:24.870 insist he was unarmed. 00:21:24.954 --> 00:21:26.122 Protesters from the Congress of Racial Equality 00:21:26.122 --> 00:21:27.790 the 123rd Street Precinct. 00:21:27.873 --> 00:21:29.917 While Black nationalist Malcolm X... 00:21:30.001 --> 00:21:32.795 - People gonna get they heads beat in. 00:21:32.878 --> 00:21:35.673 Jesus watches over fools and babies. 00:21:35.756 --> 00:21:38.259 Two things this city's full of, tell you that. 00:21:40.344 --> 00:21:42.847 Hot out there. Gettin' hotter. 00:21:43.597 --> 00:21:44.974 The kid was sitting on his stoop. 00:21:47.184 --> 00:21:48.936 You think the bullet knew the difference? 00:21:50.146 --> 00:21:51.439 I think the cop did. 00:21:52.940 --> 00:21:54.108 What did you say? 00:21:54.191 --> 00:21:55.818 Al... 00:21:55.901 --> 00:21:57.486 What'd you say? 00:21:58.362 --> 00:22:00.781 Father of us all. 00:22:00.865 --> 00:22:03.367 This meal is a sign of your love for us. 00:22:03.451 --> 00:22:05.119 - Yes. - Bless us 00:22:05.202 --> 00:22:07.872 - and bless this food. - Mm-hmm. 00:22:07.955 --> 00:22:11.500 And help us to give Your name the glory each and every day. 00:22:11.625 --> 00:22:14.587 - Each day. - Through Jesus Christ, our lord. 00:22:14.670 --> 00:22:16.756 - Amen. - Amen. 00:22:29.435 --> 00:22:32.313 We down four, but we about to be up 20! 00:22:34.190 --> 00:22:37.610 Shake it, Jack! Shake your hair! Come on now, baby! 00:22:44.825 --> 00:22:46.660 Cap! 00:22:46.744 --> 00:22:48.829 Not in the mood. 00:22:48.913 --> 00:22:51.248 That's my concern. I know my system takes adjusting to. 00:22:51.332 --> 00:22:53.375 Another coach, another system. 00:22:53.459 --> 00:22:55.544 Yeah. And I'm sure that that gets tiring, 00:22:55.669 --> 00:22:59.423 but I need your help. We're playing four-on-five out there. 00:22:59.507 --> 00:23:01.634 I need you running the floor with everybody else. 00:23:03.344 --> 00:23:06.138 This team is looking to its leader. 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:10.142 The game'll slow down in the fourth. 00:23:10.226 --> 00:23:12.811 They'll put the ball in my hands. 00:23:12.895 --> 00:23:17.107 End of the night, we'll have my 30 points, 10 boards. 00:23:17.191 --> 00:23:20.861 My guess? I'll lead the team. 00:23:20.945 --> 00:23:24.031 Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! 00:23:26.575 --> 00:23:28.244 Number 24, World B. Free, with the ball. 00:23:28.327 --> 00:23:30.120 He's a hot shooter tonight. 00:23:30.204 --> 00:23:32.039 - Off to Bryant on the wing. 00:23:35.042 --> 00:23:37.920 - Out of bounds. Oh, my goodness. 00:23:38.003 --> 00:23:40.506 And now we've got a contest. 00:23:40.589 --> 00:23:42.258 Everybody wants to play ref. 00:23:43.550 --> 00:23:45.261 Last touched by... 00:23:45.344 --> 00:23:46.762 gotta be, it's gotta be Laker ball. 00:23:49.223 --> 00:23:50.975 Come on, ref. Let's get an answer. 00:23:51.058 --> 00:23:52.476 ...from his foot! 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:53.560 Come on, call it, ref. 00:23:53.686 --> 00:23:55.271 Lakers! 00:23:57.273 --> 00:23:58.774 And so it is, Laker ball. 00:23:58.857 --> 00:24:00.859 - Time out, time out! 00:24:00.943 --> 00:24:02.486 McKinney is off the bench for time. 00:24:02.569 --> 00:24:03.404 And let's see what happens here. 00:24:10.369 --> 00:24:12.079 They're gonna take a time out. 00:24:12.162 --> 00:24:13.872 Now, folks, if you're just tuning in, 00:24:13.956 --> 00:24:15.374 you're late for a very close contest, 00:24:15.457 --> 00:24:17.042 but a disappointing one at that 00:24:17.126 --> 00:24:18.877 for these highly touted Lakers. 00:24:18.961 --> 00:24:20.546 Down by one with four seconds to play, 00:24:20.629 --> 00:24:22.423 facing an opening night belly flop 00:24:22.506 --> 00:24:24.258 against their lowly siblings to the south. 00:24:24.341 --> 00:24:25.384 Well, I tell you, Chick, the, uh, difference here 00:24:25.467 --> 00:24:26.927 seems to be Kareem. 00:24:27.011 --> 00:24:28.637 He's put up solid numbers in the fourth, 00:24:28.762 --> 00:24:31.015 but every touch, he slows the pace. 00:24:31.098 --> 00:24:32.474 Now, if I'm the coach, the first-- 00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:36.437 Who knows what evil lurks inside your pipes? 00:24:36.520 --> 00:24:38.564 Adee do, that's who. 00:24:38.647 --> 00:24:40.774 That's Adee Plumbing. Find them in the Yellow Pages. 00:24:40.858 --> 00:24:42.401 Magic, take it in. 00:24:42.484 --> 00:24:43.986 Spencer, back-screen for Norm. 00:24:44.069 --> 00:24:46.030 That's first option. Second option, 00:24:46.113 --> 00:24:47.656 Jamaal with a jumper. Right? 00:24:47.781 --> 00:24:50.034 - No Cap? - That's a play. 00:24:50.117 --> 00:24:53.328 - Team on three. One, two, three... - Team! 00:24:53.412 --> 00:24:55.330 You should go holler at your boy, Silk. 00:24:55.414 --> 00:24:57.958 - Me? - Y'all both Muslims, right? 00:24:58.042 --> 00:24:59.585 I'm not dying in a holy war. 00:25:03.130 --> 00:25:07.217 Let's go, fellas, let's go. Come on! 00:25:07.301 --> 00:25:09.511 Come on, let's go win this thing! Let's go! 00:25:20.147 --> 00:25:21.899 Magic Johnson to inbound the ball, 00:25:21.982 --> 00:25:24.193 and Jellybean Bryant defending him. 00:25:24.276 --> 00:25:26.153 Congratulations to Jellybean Bryant, 00:25:26.236 --> 00:25:27.654 his new son, Kobe, is here in the audience. 00:25:27.780 --> 00:25:29.448 Kobe Bean. I'm not making that up. 00:25:29.531 --> 00:25:32.284 - I believe it's Japanese. 00:25:32.367 --> 00:25:35.329 Looking for Nixon who's stacked and struggling to get open. 00:25:35.412 --> 00:25:37.331 The Lakers really need a bucket here. 00:25:37.414 --> 00:25:39.583 And Wilkes on the right side looking to get free. 00:25:39.666 --> 00:25:41.376 Kareem is single, double, triple teamed 00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:43.170 right in the center there. 00:25:43.253 --> 00:25:44.880 The Clippers doing everything they can 00:25:44.963 --> 00:25:46.423 to keep the ball out of his hands. 00:25:46.507 --> 00:25:47.966 Jamaal free in the corner. 00:25:48.050 --> 00:25:49.843 He's going for it. But no! 00:25:49.927 --> 00:25:52.429 He finds Kareem with the skyyyyyyhoooook! 00:26:00.646 --> 00:26:02.856 - It's good! It's good! - Oh my! 00:26:02.940 --> 00:26:05.692 And Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has just handed the Lakers 00:26:05.817 --> 00:26:09.446 their first victory of the season. Unbelievable. 00:26:09.530 --> 00:26:12.741 And Magic Johnson out there, hugging Kareem 00:26:12.866 --> 00:26:15.744 like he's just won Game Seven of the World Championship. 00:26:15.869 --> 00:26:18.288 Patrick, that's why they call him Magic Johnson. 00:26:18.372 --> 00:26:20.749 What you doin'? Get the * off me! 00:26:20.874 --> 00:26:23.585 Hey, we won, Cap! Look at all them fans! 00:26:23.669 --> 00:26:26.129 - We got 81 more games to go. - Damn right! 00:26:26.213 --> 00:26:28.090 You hit 81 more shots like that, 00:26:28.173 --> 00:26:30.717 I'ma give you 81 more hugs. Come on, Cap, get happy! 00:26:30.842 --> 00:26:33.554 - Get with it, baby! - Holy cow, big fella! 00:26:33.637 --> 00:26:35.347 - What a shot! - Allahu akbar. 00:26:35.430 --> 00:26:38.308 Unbelievable! Abdul-Jabbar gives God the glory, 00:26:38.392 --> 00:26:40.727 but seals the victory tonight for the Lakers 00:26:40.852 --> 00:26:43.188 with a miraculous shot at the buzzer. 00:26:43.272 --> 00:26:45.732 Jack. Hey! 00:26:45.857 --> 00:26:47.901 - We're off to the races. - Yeah. 00:26:47.985 --> 00:26:50.362 - I wanna see the stat sheet. - Okay, stat sheet. 00:26:50.445 --> 00:26:52.281 Why? What's up? 00:26:55.284 --> 00:26:57.327 I'll be goddamned. 00:26:57.411 --> 00:26:59.371 30 and 10. 00:26:59.454 --> 00:27:02.541 - Huh? - It's just exactly what he said. 00:27:03.917 --> 00:27:05.377 Jack. Hey. 00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:07.504 - We won. - Yeah, yeah. 00:27:09.256 --> 00:27:11.258 With a final score of 103-102, 00:27:11.341 --> 00:27:13.719 the Lakers off to a somewhat questionable beginning 00:27:13.802 --> 00:27:15.679 of their season earlier tonight, 00:27:15.762 --> 00:27:17.889 pulling out a win with a buzzer-beater 00:27:17.973 --> 00:27:20.017 against the lower-ranked Clippers, 00:27:20.100 --> 00:27:21.810 despite new owner Jerry Buss paying an arm and a leg 00:27:21.935 --> 00:27:23.979 on personnel this off-season. 00:27:24.062 --> 00:27:25.772 Let's be perfect! 00:27:25.897 --> 00:27:27.774 This was a game to be part of... 00:27:27.899 --> 00:27:30.193 You won't be happy till we're in ruins, too. 00:27:30.277 --> 00:27:32.112 ...incredible action. Now moving on to hockey... 00:28:01.558 --> 00:28:03.685 You're still my father. 00:28:08.774 --> 00:28:12.319 But you don't want your father's name. 00:28:12.402 --> 00:28:14.529 Alcindor was a French plantation owner. 00:28:14.613 --> 00:28:17.491 Our people are Yoruba tribesmen. 00:28:17.574 --> 00:28:21.203 - You taught me that. - I taught you so you'd know your history. 00:28:21.286 --> 00:28:23.830 Not throw it all away to rile up some white folks 00:28:23.914 --> 00:28:25.499 with a bullseye on your back. 00:28:25.582 --> 00:28:27.501 Look, God gave me a voice. 00:28:27.584 --> 00:28:28.919 He put me here. 00:28:29.002 --> 00:28:31.630 It is not on you to change the world. 00:28:31.713 --> 00:28:33.006 Then who? 00:28:35.675 --> 00:28:37.594 I need to do more with my life 00:28:37.677 --> 00:28:40.764 than play a game that makes me rich and makes them happy. 00:28:40.847 --> 00:28:42.557 I know that's all they want to see, 00:28:42.641 --> 00:28:44.893 but it's on me if I don't show them more. 00:28:47.354 --> 00:28:50.565 It must have been hard for you coming up. 00:28:50.649 --> 00:28:52.651 Must feel good to belong to somethin'. 00:28:53.693 --> 00:28:55.237 So what does it mean? 00:28:56.947 --> 00:28:58.532 The name? 00:29:03.537 --> 00:29:04.996 Servant of the Almighty. 00:29:09.417 --> 00:29:12.170 I saw his face when he was hugging you, 00:29:12.254 --> 00:29:14.297 hanging off your neck like a damn koala bear. 00:29:15.841 --> 00:29:17.717 You know I can't dig the clown show. 00:29:17.801 --> 00:29:21.388 - Dancin' and grinnin' for the crowd. 00:29:21.471 --> 00:29:24.933 - So you mad 'cause he happy? - You know it's more than that. 00:29:26.726 --> 00:29:28.478 When we came up, we put it on ourselves 00:29:28.562 --> 00:29:30.522 to stand for something more. 00:29:30.605 --> 00:29:32.732 The Supreme Court will take up the case... 00:29:32.816 --> 00:29:35.193 We took the boos. We took the hate. 00:29:35.277 --> 00:29:37.070 ...to sue the NBA for the right to leave college... 00:29:37.195 --> 00:29:39.322 Black man, you took the league to the Supreme Court. 00:29:39.406 --> 00:29:43.201 It was a racist-* rule, and you made a difference. 00:29:43.285 --> 00:29:45.829 Look, I'm not saying that I regret it, 00:29:45.912 --> 00:29:48.123 but there's been time I did. 00:29:48.248 --> 00:29:51.835 I mean, shit, you talkin' about four teams in 10 years? 00:29:51.918 --> 00:29:55.046 You talkin' about every owner in the league 00:29:55.130 --> 00:29:56.965 treating me like a pariah. 00:29:57.048 --> 00:30:00.302 Once you ring the white man's bell, they don't forget. 00:30:00.385 --> 00:30:03.597 And they drove me to a dark, dark place. 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:06.057 Like, I'm angry at the man. 00:30:06.141 --> 00:30:08.977 I was angry at the brothers who I helped make it easier for. 00:30:09.060 --> 00:30:12.314 I was just angry, and that anger... 00:30:12.397 --> 00:30:14.774 it almost burned me up. 00:30:17.068 --> 00:30:18.528 I heard stories. 00:30:20.280 --> 00:30:22.115 I worried about you. 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.076 Whatever you heard, it was worse. 00:30:26.578 --> 00:30:29.706 I mean, I went 12 rounds with that demon. 00:30:29.789 --> 00:30:32.167 He knocked my * out. 00:30:32.292 --> 00:30:33.835 But here you are. 00:30:34.669 --> 00:30:35.920 And I shouldn't be. 00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:39.132 I got a second chance at life. 00:30:40.842 --> 00:30:43.011 You know it all come back to you. 00:30:44.929 --> 00:30:46.514 You and me both. 00:30:54.481 --> 00:30:55.940 Yo, you got a minute, Rook? 00:30:57.984 --> 00:30:59.277 Yeah! 00:31:01.029 --> 00:31:02.697 Let me holler at you. 00:31:20.632 --> 00:31:23.051 So, what's up, Cap? 00:31:23.134 --> 00:31:25.595 I've had a little while to get to know you now. 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:28.014 I've seen your game up close. 00:31:29.182 --> 00:31:31.184 I wanna let you know that... 00:31:32.102 --> 00:31:33.436 I appreciate the... 00:31:34.437 --> 00:31:36.439 youthful energy you bring. 00:31:36.523 --> 00:31:40.026 Word? Well... Thanks, Cap. 00:31:40.110 --> 00:31:42.737 - That's somethin' else. - You're welcome. 00:31:42.821 --> 00:31:44.531 But this is bigger than the game. 00:31:44.614 --> 00:31:46.407 How you comport yourself, 00:31:46.491 --> 00:31:49.077 - how people receive you in the public eye? - Mm-hmm. 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:50.912 That's how the world sees all of us. Everybody. 00:31:50.995 --> 00:31:53.373 Y... 00:31:53.456 --> 00:31:55.458 You sayin' I don't act right? 00:31:57.127 --> 00:31:59.504 I'm saying... 00:31:59.587 --> 00:32:03.049 if you want respect within this team, 00:32:03.133 --> 00:32:05.051 young brother, you have to show some. 00:32:06.219 --> 00:32:07.720 I have to show some respect? 00:32:08.721 --> 00:32:10.265 For this team? 00:32:10.348 --> 00:32:13.518 The team that you don't even run for. 00:32:13.601 --> 00:32:15.728 The team that I've been workin' my * off 00:32:15.812 --> 00:32:17.397 trying to bring together? That team? 00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:19.232 We all call you Cap, 00:32:19.315 --> 00:32:21.484 but you ain't leading shit 'round here! 00:32:21.568 --> 00:32:23.194 You stoppin' it. 00:32:23.278 --> 00:32:25.154 We out there running like Ferraris, 00:32:25.238 --> 00:32:27.657 while your old * moving like a Cutlass on two flats! 00:32:27.782 --> 00:32:29.367 - What did you say to me, boy? - You heard. 00:32:29.450 --> 00:32:30.910 Everybody else just too afraid to say it. 00:32:30.994 --> 00:32:32.370 Evil as you is, 00:32:32.453 --> 00:32:33.913 walkin' around mad at the whole world-- 00:32:33.997 --> 00:32:36.332 Get in! Get in there! 00:32:42.338 --> 00:32:44.757 Get your hands off! Get your goddamn hands off me! 00:32:44.841 --> 00:32:46.134 Get your * hands off me! 00:32:46.217 --> 00:32:47.927 Get your hands off me! 00:32:51.097 --> 00:32:52.640 - Shit. - What the * wrong with y'all, man! 00:32:52.765 --> 00:32:54.100 What the * was that? 00:33:02.817 --> 00:33:04.402 At center, 00:33:04.485 --> 00:33:06.821 seven-foot-two, from UCLA, 00:33:06.904 --> 00:33:08.489 number 33, 00:33:08.573 --> 00:33:11.367 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 00:33:18.416 --> 00:33:20.543 James Powell, gunned down 00:33:20.627 --> 00:33:23.212 by NYPD Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan... 00:33:23.296 --> 00:33:25.340 I need to do more with my life than play a game 00:33:25.340 --> 00:33:27.508 We love our own people so much, 00:33:27.592 --> 00:33:29.260 they think we hate the ones 00:33:29.344 --> 00:33:31.429 who are inflicting injustice against them. 00:33:31.512 --> 00:33:33.222 Lew is the-- probably 00:33:33.306 --> 00:33:35.391 the deepest boy on the entire team, 00:33:35.475 --> 00:33:38.686 concerned about many things other than just basketball. 00:33:38.770 --> 00:33:40.772 What do we want? Freedom! 00:33:43.066 --> 00:33:46.694 - But I think that the white backlash-- 00:33:46.778 --> 00:33:48.321 The people are gonna have to stand up against-- 00:33:50.782 --> 00:33:53.076 God gave me a voice. He put me here! 00:33:53.159 --> 00:33:55.453 What is your name? 00:34:27.610 --> 00:34:29.028 As-salaam alaykum. 00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:32.031 Wa-alaykum salaam. 00:34:32.115 --> 00:34:34.075 Welcome, brother. 00:34:34.158 --> 00:34:36.119 It's rare we have a man of your stature 00:34:36.202 --> 00:34:38.913 in this humble place of worship. 00:34:41.582 --> 00:34:45.419 It's been a while since I've seen the inside of a mosque. 00:34:45.503 --> 00:34:48.172 Well, Allah's glad to have you, brother, just the same. 00:34:50.675 --> 00:34:52.426 All is well? 00:34:52.510 --> 00:34:54.303 I can't say it is. 00:34:56.514 --> 00:34:58.015 I can't seem to pray on it. 00:35:00.143 --> 00:35:02.645 I try. 00:35:02.728 --> 00:35:06.190 I say the words, five times a day. 00:35:07.733 --> 00:35:09.485 But they're not coming from my heart. 00:35:10.736 --> 00:35:12.196 They used to. 00:35:14.365 --> 00:35:17.368 Are you afraid God is lost to you? 00:35:18.828 --> 00:35:20.955 Maybe I'm afraid to face him. 00:35:25.251 --> 00:35:27.837 When I came to Allah as a younger man... 00:35:29.046 --> 00:35:30.715 my faith was purer. 00:35:32.341 --> 00:35:34.135 For the first time in my life, 00:35:34.218 --> 00:35:36.095 I felt I had a purpose. 00:35:37.263 --> 00:35:38.806 I made myself... 00:35:39.557 --> 00:35:41.058 a rich man. 00:35:43.769 --> 00:35:45.813 Famous for... 00:35:47.189 --> 00:35:49.442 because I put a ball into a basket. 00:35:50.568 --> 00:35:52.445 But now, I see this world. 00:35:52.528 --> 00:35:54.030 I see a world 00:35:54.113 --> 00:35:56.490 that is no better for my being here. 00:36:00.995 --> 00:36:02.538 And yet, 00:36:02.622 --> 00:36:04.916 He still shines his light on you. 00:36:07.168 --> 00:36:09.003 Why? 00:36:10.963 --> 00:36:13.466 People booed me when I changed my name. 00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.261 And now, they cheer me, and... 00:36:18.304 --> 00:36:19.847 it feels exactly the same. 00:36:19.931 --> 00:36:21.599 I hate them for it. 00:36:21.682 --> 00:36:24.185 I push them away because they all see a hero. 00:36:26.854 --> 00:36:29.106 And I see a clown. 00:36:29.190 --> 00:36:31.651 Then you've forgotten your own name. 00:36:33.819 --> 00:36:35.821 Abdul-Jabbar. 00:36:37.156 --> 00:36:38.699 Servant of the Almighty. 00:36:38.783 --> 00:36:41.285 God's instrument. 00:36:41.410 --> 00:36:44.330 Not God. 00:36:44.455 --> 00:36:46.666 It ain't on us to take His place. 00:36:46.749 --> 00:36:50.169 All we can do is be examples of His love. 00:36:50.252 --> 00:36:52.797 That's why He made you so strong. 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.424 So you could walk His path. 00:36:55.508 --> 00:36:57.426 That's why He made you tall, 00:36:57.510 --> 00:37:00.471 so other men could see and become inspired. 00:37:02.556 --> 00:37:05.267 And that's why He gave you knees, brother. 00:37:05.351 --> 00:37:08.270 So you can kneel with everybody else. 00:37:14.652 --> 00:37:16.070 Can I pray with you? 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:26.914 I'll tell you, buying a team ain't like buying a building. 00:37:26.997 --> 00:37:29.500 I think this guy is clearly out of his league. 00:37:29.583 --> 00:37:31.043 He thinks this team is just another boat or car 00:37:31.127 --> 00:37:32.753 - to show off. 00:37:32.837 --> 00:37:34.463 I really don't know what's worse, 00:37:34.547 --> 00:37:36.132 the fact he doesn't know what he's doing 00:37:36.215 --> 00:37:37.633 or the fact that he thinks he does. 00:37:37.716 --> 00:37:39.510 No, he's finding out 00:37:39.593 --> 00:37:41.846 losing games never looks good on anyone. 00:37:41.929 --> 00:37:44.056 He's treating this franchise like his plaything, 00:37:44.140 --> 00:37:45.766 like it's just another pair of dungarees for him to trash. 00:37:45.850 --> 00:37:47.601 Yeah, stupid and *y is a bad mix. 00:37:47.685 --> 00:37:49.395 - * you. - I'm telling you, 00:37:49.520 --> 00:37:51.063 this guy needs to go back to real estate 00:37:51.147 --> 00:37:52.314 and leave pro sports to the pros. 00:37:52.398 --> 00:37:53.732 Why don't you go * yourself? 00:37:55.025 --> 00:37:57.903 Got something to show you. 00:37:57.987 --> 00:37:59.655 Wow. 00:37:59.738 --> 00:38:00.781 I thought you said you weren't gonna be ready 00:38:00.865 --> 00:38:01.991 for a week or two! 00:38:02.074 --> 00:38:03.868 I pulled some strings. 00:38:03.951 --> 00:38:06.245 Promised the inspector tickets to the Ice Capades. 00:38:07.204 --> 00:38:08.247 So? 00:38:09.290 --> 00:38:11.125 We're ready to open! Yeah? 00:38:11.208 --> 00:38:13.502 If you like what you see, and, uh, 00:38:13.586 --> 00:38:15.171 - this is-- this is you. 00:38:15.254 --> 00:38:17.798 Look at that. Fantastic. 00:38:19.175 --> 00:38:21.177 Wow. 00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:22.970 Did you check out the sound system? Is it perfect? 00:38:23.053 --> 00:38:24.346 Well, Jeanie... 00:38:24.430 --> 00:38:26.015 Oh, yeah. Yeah, it sounds great. 00:38:27.266 --> 00:38:28.309 What's this here? 00:38:29.059 --> 00:38:30.144 What? 00:38:31.353 --> 00:38:33.689 It's supposed to be flush here. 00:38:33.772 --> 00:38:35.941 - Yeah, I'll, uh, we'll give maintenance a call right away. 00:38:36.025 --> 00:38:38.527 Yeah, you can really notice it there, so, you know... 00:38:38.652 --> 00:38:40.946 Maybe I can just get it-- get it to set down. 00:38:41.030 --> 00:38:43.908 - Why isn't this flush? 00:39:19.944 --> 00:39:21.445 Grandma? 00:39:22.905 --> 00:39:24.531 It's Jeanie! 00:39:28.535 --> 00:39:30.412 Why are you here? 00:39:31.497 --> 00:39:33.290 I'm here to pick you up. 00:39:33.374 --> 00:39:36.877 Monopoly, that's Thursdays. This isn't Thursday. 00:39:36.961 --> 00:39:38.253 The-the home opener. 00:39:40.005 --> 00:39:41.131 Yes! 00:39:41.215 --> 00:39:43.050 Yes. Yes. 00:39:44.551 --> 00:39:46.303 And that's why I'm going to bed. 00:39:46.387 --> 00:39:49.431 I can't stand to watch my son humiliate himself. 00:39:49.515 --> 00:39:51.725 But it would mean so much to him to have you there, Grandma. 00:39:51.809 --> 00:39:55.562 Oh, you have certainly swallowed the line. 00:39:55.646 --> 00:39:59.441 Uh-uh. He needs us when he's down. 00:39:59.525 --> 00:40:02.236 When things are looking up, he'll be looking somewhere else. 00:40:02.319 --> 00:40:04.613 You just go, sweetie, go! Go! 00:40:42.067 --> 00:40:44.820 Jeanie called, said you had a little bar fight. 00:40:49.950 --> 00:40:51.410 Yeah. 00:40:51.493 --> 00:40:52.995 The bar won. 00:40:55.581 --> 00:40:56.874 Well, uh... 00:40:58.083 --> 00:40:59.585 I wouldn't count you out. 00:41:05.090 --> 00:41:06.550 I'm sorry, Frank. 00:41:14.892 --> 00:41:17.686 Yeah, well, you know. 00:41:17.811 --> 00:41:20.731 Where would I be without Jerry *in' Buss? 00:41:21.607 --> 00:41:23.734 Happy. 00:41:23.859 --> 00:41:25.110 I'm the happy one. 00:41:25.986 --> 00:41:27.821 Bored. 00:41:27.905 --> 00:41:30.574 Bored. That's what I'd be. 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:35.496 You know what I can't stop thinkin' about? 00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:38.582 Remember the Comstock building? When did we buy that? '63? '64? 00:41:38.665 --> 00:41:40.459 You had your eye on that one for years. 00:41:40.542 --> 00:41:43.712 I have never wanted anything more in my life. 00:41:43.837 --> 00:41:46.632 And the day we closed, I went up 00:41:46.715 --> 00:41:49.676 to the top floor, and I stood in the middle of that room, 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.554 and I cried. 00:41:52.638 --> 00:41:56.099 Tears of *in' joy, Frank. 00:41:58.518 --> 00:42:01.021 And then, five minutes later, 00:42:01.104 --> 00:42:03.649 it was just another *in' thing that I owned. 00:42:03.732 --> 00:42:05.400 We made a hell of a killing on it. 00:42:05.484 --> 00:42:07.069 This was supposed to be different. 00:42:07.152 --> 00:42:10.155 - This was supposed to last. - This? This? 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.242 This is-- It is! And it will be! 00:42:13.325 --> 00:42:16.787 And we'll make it so! It's going to be great! 00:42:16.912 --> 00:42:20.040 - It's going to be * great! - Until it's not enough. 00:42:20.123 --> 00:42:22.417 You said it. 00:42:22.501 --> 00:42:25.629 What's wrong with me? What am I going to do then? 00:42:25.712 --> 00:42:28.674 I don't know, I'm not-- I'm not-- I'm not a shrink. 00:42:28.757 --> 00:42:32.302 I don't know. 00:42:32.386 --> 00:42:34.638 What am I going to tell you that you don't already know? 00:42:34.721 --> 00:42:39.059 There's more to the cliff than the edge. 00:42:39.142 --> 00:42:40.769 You got to give yourself permission 00:42:40.894 --> 00:42:43.146 every once in a while to take a step back, 00:42:43.230 --> 00:42:44.690 enjoy the *in' view. 00:42:46.608 --> 00:42:48.151 I heard that somewhere. 00:42:51.738 --> 00:42:53.198 Yeah... 00:42:53.281 --> 00:42:55.283 I mean... 00:42:55.367 --> 00:42:57.285 It ain't a bad view. 00:42:59.162 --> 00:43:02.207 Let's go! Lakers! 00:43:02.290 --> 00:43:03.667 Let's go! Lakers! 00:43:03.667 --> 00:43:05.502 A chant now from this rabid crowd. 00:43:05.585 --> 00:43:07.713 Anticipation through the roof for the home opener 00:43:07.796 --> 00:43:09.798 of what promises to be 00:43:09.881 --> 00:43:11.883 what everybody hopes will be a special kind of season 00:43:11.967 --> 00:43:14.386 for these Lakers. 00:43:18.807 --> 00:43:20.934 - Y'all ready? - Come on, boys! 00:43:23.812 --> 00:43:26.356 Alright, alright! Bring it in, bring it in! 00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:29.609 Keep the pace up. Lakers basketball. 00:43:31.987 --> 00:43:33.280 Let's go, fellas. 00:43:34.322 --> 00:43:35.490 Team on three. 00:43:38.660 --> 00:43:41.246 - One, two, three, team! - Team! 00:43:50.005 --> 00:43:52.257 Ladies and gentlemen, 00:43:52.340 --> 00:43:54.843 prepare to meet your 00:43:54.926 --> 00:44:00.557 1979-1980 Los Angeles Lakers! 00:44:30.712 --> 00:44:32.088 - Whoa! 00:44:32.088 --> 00:44:35.133 Magic with eyes in the back of his head. Oh my. 00:44:35.217 --> 00:44:36.885 Oh, you gotta love the effort by Kareem 00:44:36.968 --> 00:44:38.678 on both sides of the floor, Patrick. 00:44:38.762 --> 00:44:40.222 Crowd is on its feet, and listen to 'em roar. 00:44:40.680 --> 00:44:42.516 I'll tell you, Pat, the Lord and four disciples 00:44:42.557 --> 00:44:44.184 could not beat the Lakers right now. 00:44:44.267 --> 00:44:45.936 Yeah, I see Jack McKinney smiling. 00:44:49.898 --> 00:44:51.942 You know, Chick, I think, uh, 00:44:52.025 --> 00:44:54.486 Kareem is smiling, too. 00:44:54.569 --> 00:44:56.863 - We'll check the skies. It's a full moon. 00:44:56.947 --> 00:44:58.907 And the Bulls are gonna take a timeout on the floor, 00:44:58.990 --> 00:45:00.617 and we'll take it right there with 'em right here 00:45:00.700 --> 00:45:02.202 on the Lakers Basketball Network. 00:45:05.080 --> 00:45:07.040 Nah, Cap. That's old school. 00:45:07.123 --> 00:45:09.084 You gotta bring it up. Hit me up here! 00:45:10.669 --> 00:45:11.795 Let's go! 00:45:15.048 --> 00:45:15.966 Let's go! Let's go! 00:45:29.354 --> 00:45:30.355 Holy cow! 00:45:30.438 --> 00:45:32.899 The Lakers are off to a blistering start. 00:45:33.066 --> 00:45:35.902 My friends, Jack McKinney is making John Wooden 00:45:35.986 --> 00:45:37.988 look like Grandma Moses. 00:45:58.008 --> 00:46:00.093 Hey! 00:46:00.176 --> 00:46:03.138 I stole these from the visitor's locker room. 00:46:03.221 --> 00:46:05.181 - I think they lost so bad, 00:46:05.306 --> 00:46:06.975 they needed something stronger. 00:46:08.685 --> 00:46:10.812 - I'll drink to that. - Good. Join me! 00:46:21.740 --> 00:46:23.742 Does it feel the way that you pictured 00:46:23.825 --> 00:46:25.785 in your head all these years? 00:46:33.793 --> 00:46:35.253 Better. 00:46:35.378 --> 00:46:36.880 Good. 00:46:44.345 --> 00:46:46.347 I, uh, see you smile? 00:46:47.223 --> 00:46:49.517 There!