The Last Shot (2017): Season 1, Episode 3 - Foul Play - full transcript
The mercenary team confronts the dangers of the cartel while the rookie team chases their first victory. The brothers need a win, but first they need to get into a tournament.
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Shoot!
Reason why they come down
is try to showcase
your talent
in front of some people.
Hopefully one or all five
of the guys earn a contract.
There you go.
See, that's you.
It's going to take
playing together.
Come on, Tony!
Tony's gonna mess it up
for everybody.
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* All about the,
all about the Benjamins *
* All about the Benjamins
Who?
Motherfuckers got it out for me.
I fucked up with some people,
you know,
and they can always
pull up on me,
kidnap me on some shit.
They could get me at any time.
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Come on with it,
come on with it.
"Daddy, that's good.
It's so delicious."
I grew up in Memphis.
It's the jungle. It's the 'hood.
I live in Mexico now.
If I stayed in Memphis, man,
I'd been in the feds or dead.
My out was basketball.
My God.
Coming to Mexico to play ball
was fastest way
I knew how to get money, man.
And I met my wife.
My whole life changed.
I got some beautiful-ass kids.
Man, I got a woman who love
the shit out of me, man.
I ain't --
I ain't gonna say hurt.
I'm old, just like you.
I can't play like I used to.
I still love the hell
out of the game.
Play basketball
till my wheels fall off.
I need that bread.
I need that bag.
Somebody call you and say 6,000 pesos...
Need some -- Need some money.
...shit, I'm gone.
I gotta go.
I don't make 6,000 pesos
in three weeks.
Everything that I ever got,
fought tooth and nail for it.
Now I'm at a point
where everything that I do
and everything that I gain,
everything that I win
is not even for me.
It's for my kids, man.
I got everything?
Couple more shirts.
I got a tournament now, man,
about to go on
for 100,000 pesos.
I know they finna
be out there fightin'
for that fuckin' money, man.
That's why they call it
mercenaries.
Those dudes come out here,
and they fight.
They fight for that money,
you feel me?
I'm gonna take him with me.
I know some guys
I'm supposed to play with,
they took things
from the cartel,
and the cartel looked for them.
I can't play with nothing out
here in Mexico like that.
I would elaborate on it,
but I don't want to take
the risk of getting killed.
- Mi amor.
- I love you.
Okay?
Y'all be good, now.
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Last time I was
in Mexico, I got in trouble.
I basically stole some money.
They just out searching for me.
The most dangerous thing is,
cartel towns
don't have policeman
or anything.
They gonna beat me severely.
I won't be able to play.
They'll try to make an example.
I don't know what's
gonna happen, man.
There you go. Aqui.
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I figured it was him.
He the only black man
standing out here.
Fuckin' hot, man.
Shit, man.
- Sup, man?
- What up, bro?
Hello, my nigga.
Sup, bro. What's your name, bro?
Sup? Rashad.
Why so serious, bro?
- You good?
- Yeah, I'm good, my nigga.
I got somebody else telling me,
"Watch yourself
around him, bro."
What's going on?
Shit, man. It's like,
just some niggas down here
just trippin', bro. Like --
- What'd you do?
- It is what it is.
I had to do whatever
I had to do for my kids.
- I'm good.
- All that sound good, bro.
- All that sound good, but --
- It's true.
It sound good 'cause it's true.
Even though I took the money,
it's been hella motherfuckers
calling me down here to come play.
You took some money.
- God damn.
- Cat's out of the bag.
I don't really want to say
where the money come from.
I don't want nobody looking
for me or whatever,
but you almost can pretty --
put it together
where it come from.
Shoot, $1,300
ain't worth my life.
It could be $5, my nig.
Money is money.
They cut balls off
for shit like that,
just because,
just to set an example.
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It ain't --
They not gonna think y'all me.
I don't look like that.
I don't act like that.
You need to go back,
get your shit together, man.
If something happen, it happen.
If it don't, thank God,
God damn.
You act like you ain't even
worried about it, though.
I'm worried about it.
When I come down here
to make money
playing basketball,
- I don't have no options.
- Okay.
I do this shit so I don't
disappoint my dad, bro.
He want me to take care of
my kids and take care of myself.
I don't give a fuck what
nobody else think but him.
You got some balls, boy.
It is what it is.
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Rashad, I caught all kind
of hell raising that boy.
He has a discipline problem.
Then Rashad discovered
basketball, and he had a talent.
And I thought maybe
he could use that talent,
because if he
could have made pro,
in a few years,
he would have made enough money
to kind of smooth
his life out, you know.
But things just didn't
work out that way.
When I heard that he was going
to Mexico, I was afraid for him.
I know those people,
they deal a lot of drugs,
and Rashad, he don't know
when to back down.
And I-I didn't
want him to get hurt.
What I would like for Rashad
to do is get stabilized,
get him a decent job,
take care his family,
and act like a man.
That's what I want for him.
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So what's the focus part again?
All right.
So, on the fast break,
right, I always run the court.
On the last tournament
that we were in,
we lost, man, but I'm not here
to complain and shit.
Like, come on, man.
That's not what men do.
Like, we handle business.
If you can't get me,
I'm always post up down here,
seal it right in front
of the rim, right?
I'm trying to win
to get a good contract.
'Bout to turn everything up.
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I'm sure facing a lot
to come out here.
My daughter, Kenzie,
she's 4 1/2.
I want to be able
to support my family,
and at the same time,
be on the court and just kill
and do what I know
that I can do.
I'd rather do that
than work that 12-, 13-hour day
that, you know,
I'm doing back home.
A lot of other people
feel like I'm old,
but I don't really
see age as a factor.
Yeah, I've lost a little bit
of athletic ability
from when I was younger,
but I don't feel 33.
I would say I feel like I'm 25.
I have a lot left to give.
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We out here all day, bro.
All day.
All day!
Is this what you not want?!
Is this what you came to see?!
Control your body.
Come on, come on!
Keep that bounce,
keep that bounce.
As a team, you're only
as strong as your weakest link,
so I don't want to be that guy.
The cartel, they know if I'm
here, I'm going to a tournament.
They can always pull up on me.
* Hustlin' the street,
tryin' hard to compete, yeah *
* Don't let them criticize,
man, just open your eyes, yeah *
* Ya hustlin' the street,
tryin' to move your feet, yeah *
* Tryin' to survive,
but ya livin' a lie *
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Come on, baby.
Come on, come on.
- I got you.
- We good.
- I'm panting already.
- This is it.
Tony, he's one of
the older players here.
At our first tournament,
he played poopy.
So I'm sure he kind of
get frustrated at himself
because he was exhausted.
And we play on a team sport.
These runs in the park
will build our relationship
from point guard to center.
And that's the biggest
relationship on the court.
Keep 'em up. Keep 'em open.
Keep 'em up.
Come on, come on.
I have to get into the
condition that I need to be in.
It sucks doing this. This is
probably my least favorite thing
to do in the whole world,
but I don't really see any
other opportunity past this.
So this is it.
Keep that bounce,
keep that bounce.
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Keep your head up,
keep your head up, though
Control your body.
You're good, you're good.
Give me some. Give me some.
Give me some.
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I'm, like, hunched over
and trying to regain my breath.
And as a team, you're only
as strong as your weakest link.
It's progression.
I don't want to be that guy,
so, it's scary.
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Basketball is so world-round
that you wouldn't think
certain places play basketball,
but you can play basketball
year-round everywhere.
You can play here,
you understand?
You can play in Australia.
They got leagues down in
Paraguay they're about to play.
Latin America's
about to start back.
India has a basketball
league, did you know?
- Did you know that, yeah?
- Yeah.
I came down here
to land a contract
for a professional team.
But my main goal is really
to be seen and to get noticed
and line up an opportunity
anywhere else in the world,
making way more money.
Angola, right? You know how much
they pay for a power forward?
$300,000.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
You're still young.
26?
You still got time, man.
You understand?
A few more years, you play --
say you playing this, right?
You do great, then you play
somewhere else, you do great.
Somebody see you play
what's-it-called real good
in one of those
other leagues, bam.
You go to Europe some,
play in a nice, decent league.
You put the numbers up.
Then it gets open.
You understand?
Now your options
are really open.
Been waiting for this moment
for a very long time,
so now that I'm here,
I'm ready for the experience.
- You know what?
- To flourish.
Just 'cause you just said it,
you know it's gonna happen, man.
- Yeah.
- It gotta happen.
Yeah.
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What's up, my nigga?
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I fucked up
'cause they know I'm-a be --
If I'm here, I'm going
to a tournament.
They can always pull up on me.
You know, and shit
like that is serious.
You know, they'll kill me.
I'm not finna play with my life.
So just gotta go ahead
and leave, no matter what.
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* I got dreams
of being a rich nigga *
* A wealthy man that's too grand
to fit in the big picture *
* And bein' broke ain't even in
the scope, so what's the plan? *
* I started thinkin'
like really, though *
* What this money get you
I don't want nobody feel sorry
for me about my situation,
'cause I did it, you feel me?
I did what I did.
Shit, when I get off the plane
in America,
I don't know
what the fuck I'm gonna do.
My kids, my baby mama,
they are disappointed in me.
My pops.
I feel like I let my dad down,
'cause he had, you know,
big plans for me.
He expected a lot out of me,
and I was supposed to did
a lot more shit with myself.
* See, this here
intangible dream *
* They try to tell me
that it's not *
* And that's a part
of the scheme, hey, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
I can get it, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
you know I'm with it, yeah *
* See, this here
intangible dream *
* Try to tell me that it's not *
* And that's a part
of the scheme, hey, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
I can get it, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
you know I'm with it, yeah *
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Hold on, boy.
What's going on, bud?
- What's up?
- What's going on, man?
You heard that word, mercenary,
you know what's going down.
That's a clique of guys who go
around playing in tournaments
like Bugs and all those guys.
Those guys will go to
tournaments and just wreck it.
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We play at 6:00, bro.
- Be like 6:00, bro.
- It's 12:00 noon.
One team hasn't made it yet,
so we wait for that team,
and the tournament not starting
until they get here.
I'm like, "Come on, let's play."
We got three games. What time
you think we gonna finish?
You know, when the tournament
over, it's 2:00 in the morning,
how the fuck we gonna
get out of here?
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We gonna win.
- You're going to win?
- We gonna win.
- I need money, man.
- Yeah, no.
- I need money, bro.
- Yo, right.
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We been sitting
out here all day.
Ain't no team showed up yet,
no refs.
It's crazy, man.
Out here all day, bro.
All day. All day!
All day!
Is this what you not want?!
Is this what you came to see?!
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They tell you, "Okay, we got
a tournament at 10:00 or 11:00."
I'm gullible. I don't know.
I believe them.
And you get there, bro,
and you waiting.
I'm really about to say
fuck this shit, man.
I get emotional sometimes,
but in the back of your head,
you still thinking,
"I need
that fuckin' money, man."
Why we have to wait for
another team all day to play --
You know?
Why other teams that's here
can't play first, you know?
You understand what I'm saying?
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Give a nigga something, man.
Win, lose, or draw,
we should win something
for being here all day.
You know what I'm saying?
I ain't trying to be
no drama king, drama queen,
- or no shit like that, but.
- Facts, though.
I was quiet -- I was quiet
- from 10:00 to 3:00.
- Right.
I ain't say shit.
3:00 to 7:00?
Okay, come on, man.
We got here at 10:00.
We been standing around all day.
This shit crazy, man.
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I did the coolant.
I did the washer and shit.
And I checked
the transmission fluid.
It was good.
I ain't touched a basketball
since I been back.
I work six days a week.
The longer I work
at the car dealership,
the further away
basketball goes.
Shit.
This ain't my career.
This ain't something
I plan on retiring off of.
It's hard. It's hard
just making $380-some a week.
You know, that ain't shit.
Trying to knock as many
of these cars out as I can
so we can leave at 1:00.
If I get this --
If I can get this line down,
I'll be able to go.
I got my kids.
I do everything I can for them.
Out of the 4 checks
I might get in a month,
I'm blowing 2 1/2 on them.
I've been trying to work
shit out with my baby mama.
I'm trying, but the shit
ain't working, bro, like,
I'm just trying to find a way
to feed my kids, you know?
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I stay with my homeboy now,
sleep on his couch.
I don't like the way that feel.
You know, not saying
I don't want to work.
You're just mad at the --
Doing all the shit I done did,
it's like, I didn't go up.
I came down.
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I'm just supposed to be doing
something else with my life.
It's not a waste,
because I'm working.
I'm making money.
I'm providing for myself,
but when you know you meant
for something else,
when you ain't doing it, it just
don't sit right with you,
at least not with me.
You lock the filter down?
This some bullshit
I'm doing, man,
but I gotta do it to survive,
and that's part
of being grown --
settling for some shit.
I hate to settle, but I'm in
a situation now where I got to.
Somebody took the tin off, man.
Fuck.
Like, playing in Mexico,
killing it the way I did,
I thought I would have got,
you know, some looks
from other countries
or something like that.
I hate to be another statistic.
Nigga go off, play ball,
come back, ain't worth shit.
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Think I just
fucked my shit up, man.
It's all purple and shit, man.
Once this knee give out,
I don't know.
Fuck, man.
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* Cameraman, cameraman,
hope you got the money shot *
* Cha-ching, cheese
* Ha-ha, drop
All in the paint,
all in the paint, you know?
We here in Ciudad Valles,
where they have
this little fair.
So every time they have,
like, their little festivities,
they throw these games.
We going to be playing tomorrow
for some cash money, you know,
So tonight, we come out
to kind of test the waters
of the court.
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All day, dawg. All day.
I needed to bring somebody in
to help me show the new guys
how this thing goes,
you know what I'm saying?
So I reach out
to one of my friend of mine,
Ronald Johnson.
He gonna ride with me
for the rest of the trip.
That's how you make the money
right there.
- Where is Tony?
- In the car.
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Tony, since we been here,
he needed a timeout, man.
Anytime he go into a space
where it's like, things are
getting too rough on him,
he be like, "Timeout."
- What up, man? Yeah.
- My Achilles in both my legs
are freakin' fucked up.
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You know we gonna need
you tomorrow, right?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I can't be out here, right?
My shins are feeling
like rocks right now.
This why you probably
can't go out
and shoot around
and stuff like that
- because of it.
- I can shoot around,
but it's gonna make my shit
even more sore tomorrow.
Like, let me just
relax with it today.
Like, I was really trying
to run earlier today.
If you don't do anything,
it gonna still be like that.
- You know what I'm saying?
- It'll be all right.
Just give me another night.
I feel like
slapping the shit out of Tony
'cause he's big, and we need
him, you know what I'm saying?
You know, of course, the size of
the heart is all that matters.
Basketball-wise, it's small.
He ain't ready.
He ain't ready, man.
He ain't built for this shit.
- I'm gonna put it like that.
- All right.
He's sore.
He's sore from the training.
Man, I don't think he want it,
man. I don't think he want it.
He let a little workout
affect him
from come and get some shots up
to get adjusted to this court.
So, if you really wanted
a contract that bad,
no matter how hard,
how bad you hurting,
you still gonna
come out here and do it.
Yep.
- Get that contract.
- That's how I look at it.
- Yeah, get that contract.
- You know what I'm saying?
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That rim tight.
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If we play better defense, we'll
eventually outscore those guys
because they're young.
Our team is really real vets.
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* All fresh, 'bout to see
what the night brings *
* Should I hit 'em hard
or kill 'em wit da light bling *
* Whip tight,
fresh shock detail *
* Fresh black ice scent
mixed with the weed smell *
I think we started
the game out slow,
'cause, you know, we been
sitting around all day.
They got a tournament set for
that day, ain't no canceling.
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Whereas in the States,
they gonna postpone it.
They gonna cancel it
for the next day.
Nah, bro.
Even though I still
can get out there and play,
there's only so much
your body can go through,
you know what I'm saying?
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We good, we good, we good.
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* Man, I don't even
see y'all lames *
* Matter fact, man,
I don't even know y'all names *
* I just keep on moving
while the rest stay losing *
* ...swear they ballin',
it's a damn illusion *
Hey, man, I mean, we good.
Look how we play.
We up 2. We still up 2.
We play like we gone,
you know what I'm saying?
I'm fucked up, man.
My fucking knee killing me.
I can't move like I need to.
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Right now, my adrenaline
is running.
I got -- I'm on a bad knee.
It feel like it's on fire.
So, I gotta stay mentally
focused more than anybody else.
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I have to sit down.
I'm hurting, bro.
I'm gonna fuck some shit up,
man. I know I am.
My fucking knee killing me.
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Shit, I think we done.
I think we done for tonight.
Hey, we play again?
- Bro, I hope not.
- I hope not.
My knee is on fire, bro.
It's probably swole already.
Shit, if I had lost,
this knee would be hurting
even worse, man.
I'm glad I stayed. I won.
Real talk.
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There you go, Tony.
Let's go, Tony!
Watch your back,
watch your back!
Don't let that man
body you like that.
I'm very disappointed the way
that Tony is playing right now.
Come on, man!
He's 6'9",
he playing like he's 5'10".
Tony, he's holding us back.
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Fuck.
You go into these small towns
to play these games
that ain't got
no insurance on you.
It's totally different
from playing in the States.
They gave you money.
They gave you a check.
That shit don't
happen over here.
You break a leg,
you break your arm
or whatever,
they gonna tell you,
"Put some ice on it.
Like, go. Get away. Go home."
Yeah.
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I'm nervous, bro.
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My God.
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Are you done yet?
Fuck.
Shit, that hurt.
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You like doing that shit,
don't you?
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Shit, now my ass hurt
more than my fuckin' knee.
Fuck, I just twist my ankle.
Stupid-ass nigga.
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That guy, number 12 and number 1
is the only two
you gotta worry about, man.
The other ones
ain't really that great, man.
Don't let them get going.
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"Defense" on 3?
- "Defense."
- "Defense" on 3.
- 1, 2, 3. Defense.
- Defense.
* Yeah, we rockin' with it,
yeah, we leanin' *
* Grinnin' with the gold out,
yeah, we teethin' *
* It's open season,
everything is fair game *
* Going with my gut,
gonna wing it like a airplane *
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Everybody brung their own
personal goals here,
you know what I mean? There's
a lot of pressure on my dream
of becoming a professional
basketball player.
On the basketball court,
I'm fierce.
I'm gonna -- I'm gonna
be on your ass, man,
as simply as that.
I mean, who knows, man?
Somebody could be in the stands
looking at an attitude change
or emotional shift.
And that could be the guy
that's gonna sign your life,
sign your dreams
right into your hand.
That's why I'm here, man.
There you, Tony.
Let's go, Tony!
Watch your back,
watch your back!
Don't let that man
body you like that.
* Yeah, we got it,
you know we get it *
I'm very disappointed the way
that Tony is playing right now.
To me, Khalil played a more
organized type of basketball,
so he really showcasing the way
he should have showcased.
Let's go to Khalil.
Every time he get the ball
and touch it,
he make something happen.
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- Foul.
- Foul.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Since we lost, I felt it.
It was burning me inside.
It was burning me inside.
But I'm telling you,
I been working so hard.
I want word to travel about,
"Hey, there's this kid named
Khalil McDonald who's good."
I just want to differentiate
myself from everyone else
so that I definitely could have
a contract at the end.
* Takeover, everybody
put they hands on the floor *
* The exits covered,
we barricading the door *
* And I'm not leavin'
till I get what I came for *
* Take over the game if I'm able
'cause this is CaiN's War *
It was a good warm-up
game for us,
and hopefully, we'll
keep this run going.
Let's go.
Them motherfuckers over there,
they don't want to play.
There was one team,
they tried to cancel the game
so they can have
the game the next day.
Essentially, they can get
more players, more rest.
You gonna lose if you play now.
You gonna lose if you
play tomorrow.
Grow some fuckin' balls, man.
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I'm gonna have to bring
my A game today,
but I'm on a bad knee.
I went and took a shot
last night.
Doctor told me,
"Don't play on it."
I be trying to weigh out
the pros and the cons,
but I need the money.
That's why I'm still here, man.
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* Unh, I've been waitin'
all week for this *
* All week for this
* I just lost a lot of sleep
for this *
* Women say
they love my game face *
* Game face
* You in first place
in the lame race *
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Come here, come here, come here.
Aah.
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- You done?
- Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
I'm done.
I'm fucked up, bro.
I think I just
fucked my shit up, man.
It's all purple and shit, man.
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Basketball is all
I really know how to do.
Gotta slow the ball down.
Gotta control the pace
of the game.
Once this knee give out,
I don't know.
I ain't want to be workin'
at a Church's Chicken
or a Burger King.
Fuck, man.
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If I have to have surgery
on my shit,
my surgery gonna cost more
than this whole tournament
put together, bro.
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You see, the other team
is not even --
is not even warming up.
Yeah.
Them motherfuckers over there --
Yeah,
- they don't want to play.
- So since they scared to play,
what happen now?
They trying to push it till tomorrow.
Essentially they can get
more players, more rest.
Yeah.
Ain't with that, man.
I'm here to play now.
That's what we came for.
That's Mexico, though.
They fuckin' change the rules
and shit as it goes.
It is frustrating to be playing
in a place
where they can
just op the rules,
especially after we
played so hard, man.
We want our pesos.
Yeah. For sure.
We had a little twist.
The one team decided
they didn't want to play
because they felt like
they couldn't win,
so they tried to cancel the game
so they can have
the game the next day.
And that's bullshit.
We're here to earn
as much money we can, man.
We have to play today.
The tournament have
to finish today.
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Grow some fuckin' balls, man.
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You gonna lose if you play now.
You gonna lose if you
play tomorrow.
Go on, get the shit
over with right now.
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Yeah!
Nah, we ain't never gonna
experience no shit
like this again
in our life, bro.
I came a long way, so I gotta
make it happen now.
And I'm-a be pissed if I lose.
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The bigger the prize,
the better the competition.
You gotta get that money, dawg.
Anything can happen, man.
They're fuckin' cheating.
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What's up with that shit?!
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Shoot!
Reason why they come down
is try to showcase
your talent
in front of some people.
Hopefully one or all five
of the guys earn a contract.
There you go.
See, that's you.
It's going to take
playing together.
Come on, Tony!
Tony's gonna mess it up
for everybody.
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* All about the,
all about the Benjamins *
* All about the Benjamins
Who?
Motherfuckers got it out for me.
I fucked up with some people,
you know,
and they can always
pull up on me,
kidnap me on some shit.
They could get me at any time.
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Come on with it,
come on with it.
"Daddy, that's good.
It's so delicious."
I grew up in Memphis.
It's the jungle. It's the 'hood.
I live in Mexico now.
If I stayed in Memphis, man,
I'd been in the feds or dead.
My out was basketball.
My God.
Coming to Mexico to play ball
was fastest way
I knew how to get money, man.
And I met my wife.
My whole life changed.
I got some beautiful-ass kids.
Man, I got a woman who love
the shit out of me, man.
I ain't --
I ain't gonna say hurt.
I'm old, just like you.
I can't play like I used to.
I still love the hell
out of the game.
Play basketball
till my wheels fall off.
I need that bread.
I need that bag.
Somebody call you and say 6,000 pesos...
Need some -- Need some money.
...shit, I'm gone.
I gotta go.
I don't make 6,000 pesos
in three weeks.
Everything that I ever got,
fought tooth and nail for it.
Now I'm at a point
where everything that I do
and everything that I gain,
everything that I win
is not even for me.
It's for my kids, man.
I got everything?
Couple more shirts.
I got a tournament now, man,
about to go on
for 100,000 pesos.
I know they finna
be out there fightin'
for that fuckin' money, man.
That's why they call it
mercenaries.
Those dudes come out here,
and they fight.
They fight for that money,
you feel me?
I'm gonna take him with me.
I know some guys
I'm supposed to play with,
they took things
from the cartel,
and the cartel looked for them.
I can't play with nothing out
here in Mexico like that.
I would elaborate on it,
but I don't want to take
the risk of getting killed.
- Mi amor.
- I love you.
Okay?
Y'all be good, now.
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Last time I was
in Mexico, I got in trouble.
I basically stole some money.
They just out searching for me.
The most dangerous thing is,
cartel towns
don't have policeman
or anything.
They gonna beat me severely.
I won't be able to play.
They'll try to make an example.
I don't know what's
gonna happen, man.
There you go. Aqui.
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I figured it was him.
He the only black man
standing out here.
Fuckin' hot, man.
Shit, man.
- Sup, man?
- What up, bro?
Hello, my nigga.
Sup, bro. What's your name, bro?
Sup? Rashad.
Why so serious, bro?
- You good?
- Yeah, I'm good, my nigga.
I got somebody else telling me,
"Watch yourself
around him, bro."
What's going on?
Shit, man. It's like,
just some niggas down here
just trippin', bro. Like --
- What'd you do?
- It is what it is.
I had to do whatever
I had to do for my kids.
- I'm good.
- All that sound good, bro.
- All that sound good, but --
- It's true.
It sound good 'cause it's true.
Even though I took the money,
it's been hella motherfuckers
calling me down here to come play.
You took some money.
- God damn.
- Cat's out of the bag.
I don't really want to say
where the money come from.
I don't want nobody looking
for me or whatever,
but you almost can pretty --
put it together
where it come from.
Shoot, $1,300
ain't worth my life.
It could be $5, my nig.
Money is money.
They cut balls off
for shit like that,
just because,
just to set an example.
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It ain't --
They not gonna think y'all me.
I don't look like that.
I don't act like that.
You need to go back,
get your shit together, man.
If something happen, it happen.
If it don't, thank God,
God damn.
You act like you ain't even
worried about it, though.
I'm worried about it.
When I come down here
to make money
playing basketball,
- I don't have no options.
- Okay.
I do this shit so I don't
disappoint my dad, bro.
He want me to take care of
my kids and take care of myself.
I don't give a fuck what
nobody else think but him.
You got some balls, boy.
It is what it is.
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Rashad, I caught all kind
of hell raising that boy.
He has a discipline problem.
Then Rashad discovered
basketball, and he had a talent.
And I thought maybe
he could use that talent,
because if he
could have made pro,
in a few years,
he would have made enough money
to kind of smooth
his life out, you know.
But things just didn't
work out that way.
When I heard that he was going
to Mexico, I was afraid for him.
I know those people,
they deal a lot of drugs,
and Rashad, he don't know
when to back down.
And I-I didn't
want him to get hurt.
What I would like for Rashad
to do is get stabilized,
get him a decent job,
take care his family,
and act like a man.
That's what I want for him.
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So what's the focus part again?
All right.
So, on the fast break,
right, I always run the court.
On the last tournament
that we were in,
we lost, man, but I'm not here
to complain and shit.
Like, come on, man.
That's not what men do.
Like, we handle business.
If you can't get me,
I'm always post up down here,
seal it right in front
of the rim, right?
I'm trying to win
to get a good contract.
'Bout to turn everything up.
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I'm sure facing a lot
to come out here.
My daughter, Kenzie,
she's 4 1/2.
I want to be able
to support my family,
and at the same time,
be on the court and just kill
and do what I know
that I can do.
I'd rather do that
than work that 12-, 13-hour day
that, you know,
I'm doing back home.
A lot of other people
feel like I'm old,
but I don't really
see age as a factor.
Yeah, I've lost a little bit
of athletic ability
from when I was younger,
but I don't feel 33.
I would say I feel like I'm 25.
I have a lot left to give.
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We out here all day, bro.
All day.
All day!
Is this what you not want?!
Is this what you came to see?!
Control your body.
Come on, come on!
Keep that bounce,
keep that bounce.
As a team, you're only
as strong as your weakest link,
so I don't want to be that guy.
The cartel, they know if I'm
here, I'm going to a tournament.
They can always pull up on me.
* Hustlin' the street,
tryin' hard to compete, yeah *
* Don't let them criticize,
man, just open your eyes, yeah *
* Ya hustlin' the street,
tryin' to move your feet, yeah *
* Tryin' to survive,
but ya livin' a lie *
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Come on, baby.
Come on, come on.
- I got you.
- We good.
- I'm panting already.
- This is it.
Tony, he's one of
the older players here.
At our first tournament,
he played poopy.
So I'm sure he kind of
get frustrated at himself
because he was exhausted.
And we play on a team sport.
These runs in the park
will build our relationship
from point guard to center.
And that's the biggest
relationship on the court.
Keep 'em up. Keep 'em open.
Keep 'em up.
Come on, come on.
I have to get into the
condition that I need to be in.
It sucks doing this. This is
probably my least favorite thing
to do in the whole world,
but I don't really see any
other opportunity past this.
So this is it.
Keep that bounce,
keep that bounce.
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Keep your head up,
keep your head up, though
Control your body.
You're good, you're good.
Give me some. Give me some.
Give me some.
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I'm, like, hunched over
and trying to regain my breath.
And as a team, you're only
as strong as your weakest link.
It's progression.
I don't want to be that guy,
so, it's scary.
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Basketball is so world-round
that you wouldn't think
certain places play basketball,
but you can play basketball
year-round everywhere.
You can play here,
you understand?
You can play in Australia.
They got leagues down in
Paraguay they're about to play.
Latin America's
about to start back.
India has a basketball
league, did you know?
- Did you know that, yeah?
- Yeah.
I came down here
to land a contract
for a professional team.
But my main goal is really
to be seen and to get noticed
and line up an opportunity
anywhere else in the world,
making way more money.
Angola, right? You know how much
they pay for a power forward?
$300,000.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
You're still young.
26?
You still got time, man.
You understand?
A few more years, you play --
say you playing this, right?
You do great, then you play
somewhere else, you do great.
Somebody see you play
what's-it-called real good
in one of those
other leagues, bam.
You go to Europe some,
play in a nice, decent league.
You put the numbers up.
Then it gets open.
You understand?
Now your options
are really open.
Been waiting for this moment
for a very long time,
so now that I'm here,
I'm ready for the experience.
- You know what?
- To flourish.
Just 'cause you just said it,
you know it's gonna happen, man.
- Yeah.
- It gotta happen.
Yeah.
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What's up, my nigga?
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I fucked up
'cause they know I'm-a be --
If I'm here, I'm going
to a tournament.
They can always pull up on me.
You know, and shit
like that is serious.
You know, they'll kill me.
I'm not finna play with my life.
So just gotta go ahead
and leave, no matter what.
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* I got dreams
of being a rich nigga *
* A wealthy man that's too grand
to fit in the big picture *
* And bein' broke ain't even in
the scope, so what's the plan? *
* I started thinkin'
like really, though *
* What this money get you
I don't want nobody feel sorry
for me about my situation,
'cause I did it, you feel me?
I did what I did.
Shit, when I get off the plane
in America,
I don't know
what the fuck I'm gonna do.
My kids, my baby mama,
they are disappointed in me.
My pops.
I feel like I let my dad down,
'cause he had, you know,
big plans for me.
He expected a lot out of me,
and I was supposed to did
a lot more shit with myself.
* See, this here
intangible dream *
* They try to tell me
that it's not *
* And that's a part
of the scheme, hey, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
I can get it, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
you know I'm with it, yeah *
* See, this here
intangible dream *
* Try to tell me that it's not *
* And that's a part
of the scheme, hey, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
I can get it, yeah *
* I can get it, yeah,
you know I'm with it, yeah *
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Hold on, boy.
What's going on, bud?
- What's up?
- What's going on, man?
You heard that word, mercenary,
you know what's going down.
That's a clique of guys who go
around playing in tournaments
like Bugs and all those guys.
Those guys will go to
tournaments and just wreck it.
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We play at 6:00, bro.
- Be like 6:00, bro.
- It's 12:00 noon.
One team hasn't made it yet,
so we wait for that team,
and the tournament not starting
until they get here.
I'm like, "Come on, let's play."
We got three games. What time
you think we gonna finish?
You know, when the tournament
over, it's 2:00 in the morning,
how the fuck we gonna
get out of here?
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We gonna win.
- You're going to win?
- We gonna win.
- I need money, man.
- Yeah, no.
- I need money, bro.
- Yo, right.
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We been sitting
out here all day.
Ain't no team showed up yet,
no refs.
It's crazy, man.
Out here all day, bro.
All day. All day!
All day!
Is this what you not want?!
Is this what you came to see?!
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They tell you, "Okay, we got
a tournament at 10:00 or 11:00."
I'm gullible. I don't know.
I believe them.
And you get there, bro,
and you waiting.
I'm really about to say
fuck this shit, man.
I get emotional sometimes,
but in the back of your head,
you still thinking,
"I need
that fuckin' money, man."
Why we have to wait for
another team all day to play --
You know?
Why other teams that's here
can't play first, you know?
You understand what I'm saying?
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Give a nigga something, man.
Win, lose, or draw,
we should win something
for being here all day.
You know what I'm saying?
I ain't trying to be
no drama king, drama queen,
- or no shit like that, but.
- Facts, though.
I was quiet -- I was quiet
- from 10:00 to 3:00.
- Right.
I ain't say shit.
3:00 to 7:00?
Okay, come on, man.
We got here at 10:00.
We been standing around all day.
This shit crazy, man.
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I did the coolant.
I did the washer and shit.
And I checked
the transmission fluid.
It was good.
I ain't touched a basketball
since I been back.
I work six days a week.
The longer I work
at the car dealership,
the further away
basketball goes.
Shit.
This ain't my career.
This ain't something
I plan on retiring off of.
It's hard. It's hard
just making $380-some a week.
You know, that ain't shit.
Trying to knock as many
of these cars out as I can
so we can leave at 1:00.
If I get this --
If I can get this line down,
I'll be able to go.
I got my kids.
I do everything I can for them.
Out of the 4 checks
I might get in a month,
I'm blowing 2 1/2 on them.
I've been trying to work
shit out with my baby mama.
I'm trying, but the shit
ain't working, bro, like,
I'm just trying to find a way
to feed my kids, you know?
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I stay with my homeboy now,
sleep on his couch.
I don't like the way that feel.
You know, not saying
I don't want to work.
You're just mad at the --
Doing all the shit I done did,
it's like, I didn't go up.
I came down.
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I'm just supposed to be doing
something else with my life.
It's not a waste,
because I'm working.
I'm making money.
I'm providing for myself,
but when you know you meant
for something else,
when you ain't doing it, it just
don't sit right with you,
at least not with me.
You lock the filter down?
This some bullshit
I'm doing, man,
but I gotta do it to survive,
and that's part
of being grown --
settling for some shit.
I hate to settle, but I'm in
a situation now where I got to.
Somebody took the tin off, man.
Fuck.
Like, playing in Mexico,
killing it the way I did,
I thought I would have got,
you know, some looks
from other countries
or something like that.
I hate to be another statistic.
Nigga go off, play ball,
come back, ain't worth shit.
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Think I just
fucked my shit up, man.
It's all purple and shit, man.
Once this knee give out,
I don't know.
Fuck, man.
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* Cameraman, cameraman,
hope you got the money shot *
* Cha-ching, cheese
* Ha-ha, drop
All in the paint,
all in the paint, you know?
We here in Ciudad Valles,
where they have
this little fair.
So every time they have,
like, their little festivities,
they throw these games.
We going to be playing tomorrow
for some cash money, you know,
So tonight, we come out
to kind of test the waters
of the court.
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All day, dawg. All day.
I needed to bring somebody in
to help me show the new guys
how this thing goes,
you know what I'm saying?
So I reach out
to one of my friend of mine,
Ronald Johnson.
He gonna ride with me
for the rest of the trip.
That's how you make the money
right there.
- Where is Tony?
- In the car.
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Tony, since we been here,
he needed a timeout, man.
Anytime he go into a space
where it's like, things are
getting too rough on him,
he be like, "Timeout."
- What up, man? Yeah.
- My Achilles in both my legs
are freakin' fucked up.
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You know we gonna need
you tomorrow, right?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I can't be out here, right?
My shins are feeling
like rocks right now.
This why you probably
can't go out
and shoot around
and stuff like that
- because of it.
- I can shoot around,
but it's gonna make my shit
even more sore tomorrow.
Like, let me just
relax with it today.
Like, I was really trying
to run earlier today.
If you don't do anything,
it gonna still be like that.
- You know what I'm saying?
- It'll be all right.
Just give me another night.
I feel like
slapping the shit out of Tony
'cause he's big, and we need
him, you know what I'm saying?
You know, of course, the size of
the heart is all that matters.
Basketball-wise, it's small.
He ain't ready.
He ain't ready, man.
He ain't built for this shit.
- I'm gonna put it like that.
- All right.
He's sore.
He's sore from the training.
Man, I don't think he want it,
man. I don't think he want it.
He let a little workout
affect him
from come and get some shots up
to get adjusted to this court.
So, if you really wanted
a contract that bad,
no matter how hard,
how bad you hurting,
you still gonna
come out here and do it.
Yep.
- Get that contract.
- That's how I look at it.
- Yeah, get that contract.
- You know what I'm saying?
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If we play better defense, we'll
eventually outscore those guys
because they're young.
Our team is really real vets.
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* All fresh, 'bout to see
what the night brings *
* Should I hit 'em hard
or kill 'em wit da light bling *
* Whip tight,
fresh shock detail *
* Fresh black ice scent
mixed with the weed smell *
I think we started
the game out slow,
'cause, you know, we been
sitting around all day.
They got a tournament set for
that day, ain't no canceling.
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Whereas in the States,
they gonna postpone it.
They gonna cancel it
for the next day.
Nah, bro.
Even though I still
can get out there and play,
there's only so much
your body can go through,
you know what I'm saying?
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We good, we good, we good.
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* Man, I don't even
see y'all lames *
* Matter fact, man,
I don't even know y'all names *
* I just keep on moving
while the rest stay losing *
* ...swear they ballin',
it's a damn illusion *
Hey, man, I mean, we good.
Look how we play.
We up 2. We still up 2.
We play like we gone,
you know what I'm saying?
I'm fucked up, man.
My fucking knee killing me.
I can't move like I need to.
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Right now, my adrenaline
is running.
I got -- I'm on a bad knee.
It feel like it's on fire.
So, I gotta stay mentally
focused more than anybody else.
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I have to sit down.
I'm hurting, bro.
I'm gonna fuck some shit up,
man. I know I am.
My fucking knee killing me.
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Shit, I think we done.
I think we done for tonight.
Hey, we play again?
- Bro, I hope not.
- I hope not.
My knee is on fire, bro.
It's probably swole already.
Shit, if I had lost,
this knee would be hurting
even worse, man.
I'm glad I stayed. I won.
Real talk.
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There you go, Tony.
Let's go, Tony!
Watch your back,
watch your back!
Don't let that man
body you like that.
I'm very disappointed the way
that Tony is playing right now.
Come on, man!
He's 6'9",
he playing like he's 5'10".
Tony, he's holding us back.
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Fuck.
You go into these small towns
to play these games
that ain't got
no insurance on you.
It's totally different
from playing in the States.
They gave you money.
They gave you a check.
That shit don't
happen over here.
You break a leg,
you break your arm
or whatever,
they gonna tell you,
"Put some ice on it.
Like, go. Get away. Go home."
Yeah.
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I'm nervous, bro.
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My God.
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Are you done yet?
Fuck.
Shit, that hurt.
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You like doing that shit,
don't you?
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Shit, now my ass hurt
more than my fuckin' knee.
Fuck, I just twist my ankle.
Stupid-ass nigga.
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That guy, number 12 and number 1
is the only two
you gotta worry about, man.
The other ones
ain't really that great, man.
Don't let them get going.
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"Defense" on 3?
- "Defense."
- "Defense" on 3.
- 1, 2, 3. Defense.
- Defense.
* Yeah, we rockin' with it,
yeah, we leanin' *
* Grinnin' with the gold out,
yeah, we teethin' *
* It's open season,
everything is fair game *
* Going with my gut,
gonna wing it like a airplane *
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Everybody brung their own
personal goals here,
you know what I mean? There's
a lot of pressure on my dream
of becoming a professional
basketball player.
On the basketball court,
I'm fierce.
I'm gonna -- I'm gonna
be on your ass, man,
as simply as that.
I mean, who knows, man?
Somebody could be in the stands
looking at an attitude change
or emotional shift.
And that could be the guy
that's gonna sign your life,
sign your dreams
right into your hand.
That's why I'm here, man.
There you, Tony.
Let's go, Tony!
Watch your back,
watch your back!
Don't let that man
body you like that.
* Yeah, we got it,
you know we get it *
I'm very disappointed the way
that Tony is playing right now.
To me, Khalil played a more
organized type of basketball,
so he really showcasing the way
he should have showcased.
Let's go to Khalil.
Every time he get the ball
and touch it,
he make something happen.
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- Foul.
- Foul.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Since we lost, I felt it.
It was burning me inside.
It was burning me inside.
But I'm telling you,
I been working so hard.
I want word to travel about,
"Hey, there's this kid named
Khalil McDonald who's good."
I just want to differentiate
myself from everyone else
so that I definitely could have
a contract at the end.
* Takeover, everybody
put they hands on the floor *
* The exits covered,
we barricading the door *
* And I'm not leavin'
till I get what I came for *
* Take over the game if I'm able
'cause this is CaiN's War *
It was a good warm-up
game for us,
and hopefully, we'll
keep this run going.
Let's go.
Them motherfuckers over there,
they don't want to play.
There was one team,
they tried to cancel the game
so they can have
the game the next day.
Essentially, they can get
more players, more rest.
You gonna lose if you play now.
You gonna lose if you
play tomorrow.
Grow some fuckin' balls, man.
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I'm gonna have to bring
my A game today,
but I'm on a bad knee.
I went and took a shot
last night.
Doctor told me,
"Don't play on it."
I be trying to weigh out
the pros and the cons,
but I need the money.
That's why I'm still here, man.
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* Unh, I've been waitin'
all week for this *
* All week for this
* I just lost a lot of sleep
for this *
* Women say
they love my game face *
* Game face
* You in first place
in the lame race *
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Come here, come here, come here.
Aah.
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- You done?
- Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
I'm done.
I'm fucked up, bro.
I think I just
fucked my shit up, man.
It's all purple and shit, man.
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Basketball is all
I really know how to do.
Gotta slow the ball down.
Gotta control the pace
of the game.
Once this knee give out,
I don't know.
I ain't want to be workin'
at a Church's Chicken
or a Burger King.
Fuck, man.
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If I have to have surgery
on my shit,
my surgery gonna cost more
than this whole tournament
put together, bro.
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Whoo!
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You see, the other team
is not even --
is not even warming up.
Yeah.
Them motherfuckers over there --
Yeah,
- they don't want to play.
- So since they scared to play,
what happen now?
They trying to push it till tomorrow.
Essentially they can get
more players, more rest.
Yeah.
Ain't with that, man.
I'm here to play now.
That's what we came for.
That's Mexico, though.
They fuckin' change the rules
and shit as it goes.
It is frustrating to be playing
in a place
where they can
just op the rules,
especially after we
played so hard, man.
We want our pesos.
Yeah. For sure.
We had a little twist.
The one team decided
they didn't want to play
because they felt like
they couldn't win,
so they tried to cancel the game
so they can have
the game the next day.
And that's bullshit.
We're here to earn
as much money we can, man.
We have to play today.
The tournament have
to finish today.
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Grow some fuckin' balls, man.
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You gonna lose if you play now.
You gonna lose if you
play tomorrow.
Go on, get the shit
over with right now.
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Yeah!
Nah, we ain't never gonna
experience no shit
like this again
in our life, bro.
I came a long way, so I gotta
make it happen now.
And I'm-a be pissed if I lose.
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The bigger the prize,
the better the competition.
You gotta get that money, dawg.
Anything can happen, man.
They're fuckin' cheating.
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What's up with that shit?!
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