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🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:15.7 | Thank you so much for joining us on another episode of the Bakari Solis podcast. This has been an amazing experience. |
0:18.3 | It's been so so dope. |
0:20.3 | We've had so many great guests come on. |
0:21.9 | I'm just thankful that all of you all have listened, downloaded, and subscribed. |
0:26.0 | But today I wanted to take a moment to honor the life of Chadwick Bozeman, Black Panther, to now know what he endured all the while filming iconic movies like |
0:36.3 | Get on up in Black Panther Marshall and the Avengers is a testament not only to his |
0:42.0 | strength but also his professionalism and sheer talent. |
0:46.6 | As a black man and as a South Carolinian, Chadwick made us proud and he was the best of us. |
0:55.0 | I want to also take a moment to honor the life of iconic Georgetown basketball head coach John Thompson. |
1:02.0 | You can Google all the accomplishments but for me the things |
1:06.2 | that stand out about John Thompson are the things you don't always hear first when people |
1:11.5 | talk about John Thompson. Things like a |
1:14.4 | graduation rate of 97% and taking chances on young men like Alan Iverson |
1:19.5 | who deserves second chances. Alan Iverson's acceptance speech into the basketball hall of fame spoke to John Thompson, the man. |
1:28.4 | Coach Thompson was saving my life. For giving me the opportunity. I was recruited by every school in a country for football and basketball. |
1:52.0 | And I football and |
1:55.0 | all that was taken away. |
2:00.0 | the incident happened in high school and all that was taken away. |
2:01.0 | No other teams, no other schools, or recruit me anymore. |
2:07.0 | My mom, when did Joy sound, and beg him, you give me a chance. And he did. To a man, |
2:13.0 | and he did. |
2:14.0 | To a man, what John Thompson's players will tell you |
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