jerseyshorejohnny
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Felipe Lopez / ESPN 30 for 30
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That's great for Felipe and hopefully puts it in a positive spin on all the good things he's done in local and far reaching communities.
I can not believe that it is almost 25 years since the Sports Illustrated cover with Felipe on it. I remember the day I bought it. I opened it waiting for the LIRR that day in Bayside with with my friend like it was yesterday. We had been working for a couple of years and not married yet. He has a son in college now and another who will be a senior in high school and I have two kids about to turn 16. It’s a different world today but I think Springsteen wrote this song...
Moose
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[quote="firestorm" post=339690]Great respect for Felipe and the way he conducted himself as a Johnnie, a pro and post-playing career. Looking forward to seeing this...although I have a little trepidation about how St. John's basketball will be presented.[/quote]
Don't know why though? ESPN does great work with their 30 for 30's. The Big East one was tremendous. In addition Hock is born and raised in Queens.
Don't know why though? ESPN does great work with their 30 for 30's. The Big East one was tremendous. In addition Hock is born and raised in Queens.
Thanks for this JSJ. Put it on my calendar for 9 pm on April 30th otherwise I will never remember to tune it in. Have always really been a huge fan of Felipe and have really enjoyed some of those ESPN 30 for 30 specials most of which I've tuned into by accident. This one I will not miss.
L J S A
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[quote="Ilzion" post=342881]Felipe was a basketball bust![/quote]
1,927 points, placing him fourth all-time in St. John's history behind former Johnnies' greats Chris Mullin, Malik Sealy, and D'Angelo Harrison and sixth in Big East history with 1,222 conference points, while also ranking seventh all time in steals, 14th in assists, and 20th in rebounds. He also holds the St. John's record for most three-pointers made in a single season (60) and in a career (148).
1,927 points, placing him fourth all-time in St. John's history behind former Johnnies' greats Chris Mullin, Malik Sealy, and D'Angelo Harrison and sixth in Big East history with 1,222 conference points, while also ranking seventh all time in steals, 14th in assists, and 20th in rebounds. He also holds the St. John's record for most three-pointers made in a single season (60) and in a career (148).
[quote="L J S A" post=342936][quote="Ilzion" post=342881]Felipe was a basketball bust![/quote]
1,927 points, placing him fourth all-time in St. John's history behind former Johnnies' greats Chris Mullin, Malik Sealy, and D'Angelo Harrison and sixth in Big East history with 1,222 conference points, while also ranking seventh all time in steals, 14th in assists, and 20th in rebounds. He also holds the St. John's record for most three-pointers made in a single season (60) and in a career (148).[/quote]
Suffered a knee injury just as he was about to sign a really nice contract to extend his NBA career.
1,927 points, placing him fourth all-time in St. John's history behind former Johnnies' greats Chris Mullin, Malik Sealy, and D'Angelo Harrison and sixth in Big East history with 1,222 conference points, while also ranking seventh all time in steals, 14th in assists, and 20th in rebounds. He also holds the St. John's record for most three-pointers made in a single season (60) and in a career (148).[/quote]
Suffered a knee injury just as he was about to sign a really nice contract to extend his NBA career.
jerseyshorejohnny
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Was honored to have attended tonight's premier at the NYAC
The film was fantastic !
Don't miss it when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday night, April 30, at 9pm
The film was fantastic !
Don't miss it when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday night, April 30, at 9pm
beast of the east
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[quote="jerseyshorejohnny" post=346267]Was honored to have attended tonight's premier at the NYAC
The film was fantastic !
Don't miss it when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday night, April 30, at 9pm[/quote]
Like JSJ, felt really privileged to be at the ESPN screening last night.
I hate the characterization of Felipe as a bust. I mean really detest it.
The first half of the movie covered his youth in the DR, and coming to the US at 14 not speaking a word of English. His family had to leave him behind 3 years earlier when he and another young sibling were denied visas. It followed his incredible domination of HS basketball, to being handed the impossible status of being the Dominican Jordan - which he was in HS.
It chronicled his struggle to meet that expectation in college, and his life in the NBA and beyond.
Zendon was there, and his presence really immeasurably added to the night. In the Q&A that followed the movie, Felipe broke down when he asked if he could make some acknowledgements for two people who could not be present - HS Coach Lou DeMello, who had apparently lost a close family member (his wife?), and to Zendon Hamilton's mom who had passed who Felipe acknowledged as his second Mom.
Through no fault of his own, Felipe turned out not to be Jordan, but a very fine college basketball player, good enough to become a first round pic and spend 5 years in the NBA, a career cut short by injury. To call him a bust is an insult, and just about any of us who ever picked up a basketball ran into the limits of our ability, whether not making a CYO or AAU team, to getting cut from a HS squad, or riding the bench in any form of organized sport. Felipe just had the misfortune of not meeting the lofty expectation set for him in front of millions of college sports fans. Totally unfair.
For SJU fans, as among a handful of guys who played in the NBA, he should be celebrated, and his stroy accentuates that for me.
As others have noted here, it was a very special night.
I'm not sure this is a feel good story, except to say Felipe is a great underutilized asset to the St. John's community. He is a guy who could have been a lottery pick after his freshman year at SJU, but stuck around because a degree was important to his family.
His story is an immigrant's story, a story that for an alumni base largely composed of first and second generation American born students, for many being the first in their family to graduate college, that resonates.
The film was fantastic !
Don't miss it when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday night, April 30, at 9pm[/quote]
Like JSJ, felt really privileged to be at the ESPN screening last night.
I hate the characterization of Felipe as a bust. I mean really detest it.
The first half of the movie covered his youth in the DR, and coming to the US at 14 not speaking a word of English. His family had to leave him behind 3 years earlier when he and another young sibling were denied visas. It followed his incredible domination of HS basketball, to being handed the impossible status of being the Dominican Jordan - which he was in HS.
It chronicled his struggle to meet that expectation in college, and his life in the NBA and beyond.
Zendon was there, and his presence really immeasurably added to the night. In the Q&A that followed the movie, Felipe broke down when he asked if he could make some acknowledgements for two people who could not be present - HS Coach Lou DeMello, who had apparently lost a close family member (his wife?), and to Zendon Hamilton's mom who had passed who Felipe acknowledged as his second Mom.
Through no fault of his own, Felipe turned out not to be Jordan, but a very fine college basketball player, good enough to become a first round pic and spend 5 years in the NBA, a career cut short by injury. To call him a bust is an insult, and just about any of us who ever picked up a basketball ran into the limits of our ability, whether not making a CYO or AAU team, to getting cut from a HS squad, or riding the bench in any form of organized sport. Felipe just had the misfortune of not meeting the lofty expectation set for him in front of millions of college sports fans. Totally unfair.
For SJU fans, as among a handful of guys who played in the NBA, he should be celebrated, and his stroy accentuates that for me.
As others have noted here, it was a very special night.
I'm not sure this is a feel good story, except to say Felipe is a great underutilized asset to the St. John's community. He is a guy who could have been a lottery pick after his freshman year at SJU, but stuck around because a degree was important to his family.
His story is an immigrant's story, a story that for an alumni base largely composed of first and second generation American born students, for many being the first in their family to graduate college, that resonates.
[quote="Beast of the East" post=346307][quote="jerseyshorejohnny" post=346267]Was honored to have attended tonight's premier at the NYAC
The film was fantastic !
Don't miss it when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday night, April 30, at 9pm[/quote]
Like JSJ, felt really privileged to be at the ESPN screening last night.
I hate the characterization of Felipe as a bust. I mean really detest it.
The first half of the movie covered his youth in the DR, and coming to the US at 14 not speaking a word of English. His family had to leave him behind 3 years earlier when he and another young sibling were denied visas. It followed his incredible domination of HS basketball, to being handed the impossible status of being the Dominican Jordan - which he was in HS.
It chronicled his struggle to meet that expectation in college, and his life in the NBA and beyond.
Zendon was there, and his presence really immeasurably added to the night. In the Q&A that followed the movie, Felipe broke down when he asked if he could make some acknowledgements for two people who could not be present - HS Coach Lou DeMello, who had apparently lost a close family member (his wife?), and to Zendon Hamilton's mom who had passed who Felipe acknowledged as his second Mom.
Through no fault of his own, Felipe turned out not to be Jordan, but a very fine college basketball player, good enough to become a first round pic and spend 5 years in the NBA, a career cut short by injury. To call him a bust is an insult, and just about any of us who ever picked up a basketball ran into the limits of our ability, whether not making a CYO or AAU team, to getting cut from a HS squad, or riding the bench in any form of organized sport. Felipe just had the misfortune of not meeting the lofty expectation set for him in front of millions of college sports fans. Totally unfair.
For SJU fans, as among a handful of guys who played in the NBA, he should be celebrated, and his stroy accentuates that for me.
As others have noted here, it was a very special night.
I'm not sure this is a feel good story, except to say Felipe is a great underutilized asset to the St. John's community. He is a guy who could have been a lottery pick after his freshman year at SJU, but stuck around because a degree was important to his family.
His story is an immigrant's story, a story that for an alumni base largely composed of first and second generation American born students, for many being the first in their family to graduate college, that resonates.[/quote]
Well said. The fact that he played D1 sports and then in the NBA at the highest level and also has a degree should be praised.
The film was fantastic !
Don't miss it when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday night, April 30, at 9pm[/quote]
Like JSJ, felt really privileged to be at the ESPN screening last night.
I hate the characterization of Felipe as a bust. I mean really detest it.
The first half of the movie covered his youth in the DR, and coming to the US at 14 not speaking a word of English. His family had to leave him behind 3 years earlier when he and another young sibling were denied visas. It followed his incredible domination of HS basketball, to being handed the impossible status of being the Dominican Jordan - which he was in HS.
It chronicled his struggle to meet that expectation in college, and his life in the NBA and beyond.
Zendon was there, and his presence really immeasurably added to the night. In the Q&A that followed the movie, Felipe broke down when he asked if he could make some acknowledgements for two people who could not be present - HS Coach Lou DeMello, who had apparently lost a close family member (his wife?), and to Zendon Hamilton's mom who had passed who Felipe acknowledged as his second Mom.
Through no fault of his own, Felipe turned out not to be Jordan, but a very fine college basketball player, good enough to become a first round pic and spend 5 years in the NBA, a career cut short by injury. To call him a bust is an insult, and just about any of us who ever picked up a basketball ran into the limits of our ability, whether not making a CYO or AAU team, to getting cut from a HS squad, or riding the bench in any form of organized sport. Felipe just had the misfortune of not meeting the lofty expectation set for him in front of millions of college sports fans. Totally unfair.
For SJU fans, as among a handful of guys who played in the NBA, he should be celebrated, and his stroy accentuates that for me.
As others have noted here, it was a very special night.
I'm not sure this is a feel good story, except to say Felipe is a great underutilized asset to the St. John's community. He is a guy who could have been a lottery pick after his freshman year at SJU, but stuck around because a degree was important to his family.
His story is an immigrant's story, a story that for an alumni base largely composed of first and second generation American born students, for many being the first in their family to graduate college, that resonates.[/quote]
Well said. The fact that he played D1 sports and then in the NBA at the highest level and also has a degree should be praised.