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Transcript: SPORTS FILM FOR SPIKE LEE
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- ABC Good Morning America
- Article date:
- April 27, 1998
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LISA McREE, Host: Spike Lee has never been one to skirt controversy.
In all of his movies, subjects from racism to drugs to sex are addressed
head-on with no apologies, and he makes no exceptions in the new movie
"He Got Game." Here we get an unflinching look at how high school
basketball stars are exploited by agents, coaches, friends, even family.
In this scene, Jake Shuttlesworth, played by Denzel Washington, is
making some demands of his own. He challenges his son, played by
Milwaukee Bucks star Ray Allen (ph), to a game that could decide both
their futures.
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