Bag Game E1: The Making of Billy Preston

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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To unravel how a top college recruit’s NBA dreams ran into a sprawling federal investigation, reporter Paula Lavigne explores his early years. Billy Preston and his mom struggle to get by in L.A. An active kid, Billy finds basketball through his mom’s partner, a high school coach and former professional player. Billy’s star rises in youth leagues. He generates buzz as an NBA prospect. Top colleges vie for his talents, and his family pulls out all the stops to support his goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect?
0:03.1	Was it because he saved 35% on Trainline,
0:06.0	then bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive pet,
0:09.2	where he saw something that said,
0:11.9	I don't actually hate you.
0:14.9	His Trainline detanged for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect.
0:18.8	We hope so.
0:19.7	We really do.
0:21.4	Great journey start with Trainline.
0:24.3	Average savings from advanced fairs, rail cards and split save were available
0:27.2	versus equivalent flexible fair TNC's apply.
0:34.7	Billy Preston arrived as a freshman on the campus of the University of Kansas
0:40.0	in the fall of 2017.
0:42.8	Billy had grown up in Los Angeles,
0:45.4	but the Sleepy College town of Lawrence actually felt like a perfect match.
0:50.2	The vibe that I got, it was more like Lawrence was like a mellow scene and that's kind of high
0:54.6	among just like a fat line.
0:56.8	I'm never too high and never too low.
1:00.3	Billy was no ordinary college freshman.
1:03.3	He was a J-Hawk, a player on one of the top college basketball teams in the country.
1:09.3	And on that campus, surrounded by Kansas corn and soybean fields, he was a celebrity.
1:16.6	The lobby inside Preston, that was really good stuff.
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