ATTN: All OC Prepsters
If you haven't seen the new ESPN 30for30 documentary 'Benji' you need to immediately.
The film, which focuses on the violent and untimely death of former Chicago schoolboy hoop legend Benji Wilson, is a cautionary tale that every young athlete should see and can learn from.
Hailing from Chicago, Wilson was the nation's No. 1 ranked high school boys basketball player entering the 1984-1985 season – a sweet-stroking 6-foot-8 forward with a velvety touch around the rim and natural feel for the game. Coming off a junior year where he had led his Simeon squad to a state championship, he was being recruited by practically every college in the country.
Sadly, Wilson was senselessly shot dead on the afternoon of Simeon's season-opener in late November 1984, following an altercation with another teen outside his school on his lunch hour.
The doc is 90 minutes long and does an excellent job of laying out all the particulars and addressing all the necessary angles in dissecting the story of Wilson and his tragic demise some 30 years ago next month.
Do yourself a favor, check it out!!!
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