The Benji Wilson Story (Derrick Rose Connection)

[Dro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmH9RTuGZk

Don't know how many of you have heard of Ben Wilson. Was tragically shot during an argument on the street but the true story did not come out for years later. The guy who shot him is in this documentary and he served 30 years for Ben's death because a friend of Ben's testified that the guy and his friend robbed Ben when really, they got into it because Ben bumped into the guy on the street really hard and when he was asked to apologize, Ben talked down to the guy basically like he wasn't shi*t...Much more to the story. He's from Chicago and he wore #25 so players like Rose and others wore #25 in high school in his honor since he goes to the same school. Great documentary if you have never seen it. People say he could have been one of the greatest players ever. The guy who scouted Ben is also the same guy who told people that Jordan would be great way back when...

Apparently Ben was a great guy who was just having a bad couple of days and it got to him on that one day and cost him his life.

[NumberSix]

Chicago fans look up to this guy? What did he do? Murder a bunch of people and sell drugs?

[SamuraiSWISH]

He's a Chicago Legend, unfulfilled. Same way in a much larger sense that Derrick Rose is basically on his path to becoming with all his crippling injuries, as opposed to death.

Benji Wilson, Len Bias, Petrovic, and Reggie Lewis are tremendous "what if" stories. Cut down as young men in their prime, tragic. Beyond just being great athletes.

Probably would've ended up being an all-time great player. He was 6'8, had handle, could pass, play defense, they called him Magic but with a better jump shot. LeBron lite, without the body or athleticism basically.

He was the #1 ranked HS prospect. Totally outplayed all his contemporaries in various camps. Sonny Vaccaro, the man who saw the potential in Jordan before anyone else ... and the guy who was the first to spot: KG, Kobe, and LeBron gave him his stamp of approval.

He came up in a time of the greatest talent cluster from the Chicago era. Joining a long lineage of great players.

His girlfriend is a bitch, and basically the reason he was having such stress the days before on the eve of the start of his senior season. She was the source of anger for him lashing out on those youths on the street, his anger with her even made him hit a teacher a time before that. She declined to even be interviewed for a touching piece on her babys father's legacy. She's got mental issues. The power of puzzy is a powerful thing though to certain men.

Touching story, but it's sad that not much has changed since that faithful day. Chicago is still rampant with guns, weapons, senseless killings. Benji is the reason that every great player who goes through Simeon wears #25. His best friend and fellow local product Nick Anderson wore it for that reason as well.

Great 30 for 30 story. As many of them usually are ... highly reccomend everyone watch.

[NumberSix]

He's a Chicago Legend, unfulfilled. Same way in a much larger sense that Derrick Rose is basically on his path to becoming with all his crippling injuries, as opposed to death.

Benji Wilson, Len Bias, Petrovic, and Reggie Lewis are tremendous "what if" stories. Cut down as young men in their prime, tragic. Beyond just being great athletes.

Probably would've ended up being an all-time great player. He was 6'8, had handle, could pass, play defense, they called him Magic but with a better jump shot. LeBron lite, without the body or athleticism basically.

He was the #1 ranked HS prospect. Totally outplayed all his contemporaries in various camps. Sonny Vaccaro, the man who saw the potential in Jordan before anyone else ... and the guy who was the first to spot: KG, Kobe, and LeBron gave him his stamp of approval.

He came up in a time of the greatest talent cluster from the Chicago era. Joining a long lineage of great players.

His girlfriend is a bitch, and basically the reason he was having such stress the days before on the eve of the start of his senior season. She was the source of anger for him lashing out on those youths on the street, his anger with her even made him hit a teacher a time before that. She declined to even be interviewed for a touching piece on her babys father's legacy. She's got mental issues. The power of puzzy is a powerful thing though to certain men.

Touching story, but it's sad that not much has changed since that faithful day. Chicago is still rampant with guns, weapons, senseless killings. Benji is the reason that every great player who goes through Simeon wears #25. His best friend and fellow local product Nick Anderson wore it for that reason as well.

Great 30 for 30 story. As many of them usually are ... highly reccomend everyone watch.
Why do you keep deleting your posts and reposting them to make sure they're the last post?

[SamuraiSWISH]

Why do you keep deleting your posts and reposting them to make sure they're the last post?
I edited spelling errors. Is it a problem?

[Lebron23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipHHJTDl1A

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

Why do you keep deleting your posts and reposting them to make sure they're the last post?
:lol

[Dro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipHHJTDl1A
:applause:

[Black and White]

Its a sad story, I watched the documentary last year, good tradition that they have for the star player to wear his number.

[Dro]

He's a Chicago Legend, unfulfilled. Same way in a much larger sense that Derrick Rose is basically on his path to becoming with all his crippling injuries, as opposed to death.

Benji Wilson, Len Bias, Petrovic, and Reggie Lewis are tremendous "what if" stories. Cut down as young men in their prime, tragic. Beyond just being great athletes.

Probably would've ended up being an all-time great player. He was 6'8, had handle, could pass, play defense, they called him Magic but with a better jump shot. LeBron lite, without the body or athleticism basically.

He was the #1 ranked HS prospect. Totally outplayed all his contemporaries in various camps. Sonny Vaccaro, the man who saw the potential in Jordan before anyone else ... and the guy who was the first to spot: KG, Kobe, and LeBron gave him his stamp of approval.

He came up in a time of the greatest talent cluster from the Chicago era. Joining a long lineage of great players.

His girlfriend is a bitch, and basically the reason he was having such stress the days before on the eve of the start of his senior season. She was the source of anger for him lashing out on those youths on the street, his anger with her even made him hit a teacher a time before that. She declined to even be interviewed for a touching piece on her babys father's legacy. She's got mental issues. The power of puzzy is a powerful thing though to certain men.

Touching story, but it's sad that not much has changed since that faithful day. Chicago is still rampant with guns, weapons, senseless killings. Benji is the reason that every great player who goes through Simeon wears #25. His best friend and fellow local product Nick Anderson wore it for that reason as well.

Great 30 for 30 story. As many of them usually are ... highly reccomend everyone watch.
Yup, she knew that she blatantly lied on the stand....

[Cali Syndicate]

Chicago fans look up to this guy? What did he do? Murder a bunch of people and sell drugs?

You never heard of benji Wilson?

[STATUTORY]

there's never a feel good ending to a chicago story

it ain't hollywood

[Dro]

You never heard of benji Wilson?
Number 6 is like 12 years old...don't mind him...

[JohnMax]

6. Benji Wilson — The 20 Greatest Basketball Players to Never Play in the NBA
http://www.complex.com/sports/2012/11/the-20-greatest-players-who-never-played-in-the-nba/never-played-in-the-nba-8

Accolades: 1984 No. 1 HS Basketball Player, 1984 IHSA State Champion, 1984 Chicago Public League City Champion

Benji Wilson never had a chance to show the world what he was fully capable of. He dominated the Chicago Public League and is heralded as the greatest player the Windy City has ever produced.

[MJ(Mean John)]

He's a Chicago Legend, unfulfilled. Same way in a much larger sense that Derrick Rose is basically on his path to becoming with all his crippling injuries, as opposed to death.

Benji Wilson, Len Bias, Petrovic, and Reggie Lewis are tremendous "what if" stories. Cut down as young men in their prime, tragic. Beyond just being great athletes.

Probably would've ended up being an all-time great player. He was 6'8, had handle, could pass, play defense, they called him Magic but with a better jump shot. LeBron lite, without the body or athleticism basically.

He was the #1 ranked HS prospect. Totally outplayed all his contemporaries in various camps. Sonny Vaccaro, the man who saw the potential in Jordan before anyone else ... and the guy who was the first to spot: KG, Kobe, and LeBron gave him his stamp of approval.

He came up in a time of the greatest talent cluster from the Chicago era. Joining a long lineage of great players.

His girlfriend is a bitch, and basically the reason he was having such stress the days before on the eve of the start of his senior season. She was the source of anger for him lashing out on those youths on the street, his anger with her even made him hit a teacher a time before that. She declined to even be interviewed for a touching piece on her babys father's legacy. She's got mental issues. The power of puzzy is a powerful thing though to certain men.

Touching story, but it's sad that not much has changed since that faithful day. Chicago is still rampant with guns, weapons, senseless killings. Benji is the reason that every great player who goes through Simeon wears #25. His best friend and fellow local product Nick Anderson wore it for that reason as well.

Great 30 for 30 story. As many of them usually are ... highly reccomend everyone watch.


you have to throw in Ray Lou! (Raymond Lewis)

[JellyBean]

Yeah that was a great story on Ben Wilson. Just growing up in the Midwest during the early 80s, you knew or heard about Ben Wilson. Sad story and the 30 for 30 on ESPN was great. Those series are well done.

[oarabbus]

Just watched this one. These tragic 30 for 30s hit pretty hard but they're damn good.

[Stringer Bell]

Sad story.

The ESPN 30 for 30 episode was pretty good.

Supposedly his killer turned his life around...the thing I didn't like was how he was talking about the killing and said something like "that day when I...did what what I did that got me sent to the penitentiary"....you KILLED him. Didn't like his choice of words.

Supposedly they were trying to rob Ben and one of them said "shoot this punk". The killer's story was way different. My guess is that it was somewhere in the middle.

The Hank Gathers and Len Bias stories were also rather depressing

[unknowns8]

He's a Chicago Legend, unfulfilled. Same way in a much larger sense that Derrick Rose is basically on his path to becoming with all his crippling injuries, as opposed to death.

Benji Wilson, Len Bias, Petrovic, and Reggie Lewis are tremendous "what if" stories. Cut down as young men in their prime, tragic. Beyond just being great athletes.

Probably would've ended up being an all-time great player. He was 6'8, had handle, could pass, play defense, they called him Magic but with a better jump shot. LeBron lite, without the body or athleticism basically.

He was the #1 ranked HS prospect. Totally outplayed all his contemporaries in various camps. Sonny Vaccaro, the man who saw the potential in Jordan before anyone else ... and the guy who was the first to spot: KG, Kobe, and LeBron gave him his stamp of approval.

He came up in a time of the greatest talent cluster from the Chicago era. Joining a long lineage of great players.

His girlfriend is a bitch, and basically the reason he was having such stress the days before on the eve of the start of his senior season. She was the source of anger for him lashing out on those youths on the street, his anger with her even made him hit a teacher a time before that. She declined to even be interviewed for a touching piece on her babys father's legacy. She's got mental issues. The power of puzzy is a powerful thing though to certain men.

Touching story, but it's sad that not much has changed since that faithful day. Chicago is still rampant with guns, weapons, senseless killings. Benji is the reason that every great player who goes through Simeon wears #25. His best friend and fellow local product Nick Anderson wore it for that reason as well.

Great 30 for 30 story. As many of them usually are ... highly reccomend everyone watch.


Sonny Vaccaro has been running an annual high school all-stars tournament since the 70's or thereabouts and so for him to be sayin that kind of thing about Benji is quite powerful stuff ... this is the guy who told Nike to back Michael Jordan with everything they had, so he has an eye for talent