Narration

====In the projects of Manhattan a man is waking up from a night filled with gunshots and police sirens. He gets up and has his normal routine of getting dressed taking a cold shower and brushing his teeth. But today is certainly not a normal day. The year is 1972 and today a man named BJ Jefferson is going to get drafted into the NBA, hopefully. BJ is skipping college to go right into professional basketball. He walks downstairs and into a leaky kitchen, where he pours his mini-wheats. As he is doing so he gazes out the window at the ocean of concrete and black people sitting on chairs, with looks that would just make one depressed. He finishes up and puts his suit on. The suit was his dad's, and was also the last thing he had from him. BJ slips on the brown shoes and walks out the door. ====

==== As BJ waits for the taxi outside he hears shouts from people saying “Don't get your hopes up kid". Others are offering advice like," Good luck, I hope you get drafted." BJ sees children peering out from behind the curtains and asking their mothers questions. The cab arrives and a white man rolls down the window. "Is it just me or does this neighborhood give you the jitters." ====

===="Well I'm not, let's get out of here, hop in," the man says, like at any moment he could be under attack. Bj opens the passenger seat and starts to sit when the taxi driver says," Umm, boy that seat's airbag is broken, wouldn't want you to sit there..." BJ knows that the airbag isn't broken. He has faced racism his entire life, but usually not this bad. Even though BJ is enraged he quietly sits in the backseat. On the ride they pass poor places and rich. BJ notices a trend, the richer places tend to be filled by whites and the poorer are filled with blacks. ==== ====BJ finally reaches Madison Square Garden where the draft takes place and the taxi driver drops him off in front of a hotel. He had been saving up his money for this hotel and he will finally be able to feel some luxury. BJ opens up the glass doors and walks in. "Ummm, I have apartment 8A, it says here," BJ says to the clerk "Let me see that. You do know that will cost you 3,000 bucks," he says. ====

===="I've had enough of this racism!," BJ shouts and he stomps to the elevator with people in the lobby snickering and shouting for him to go to his room. ====

====BJ has a tough night of sleep. Partially because he is mad, and partially because he can't wait until he gets drafted tomorrow. BJ is restless and turns on the tv. The channel is sportsnet. "As many of you know the NBA draft is tomorrow. Let's take a look at who we think will be drafted early. Our prediction is first pick: Desean King, our second pick: Tyler Routeger and our third pick is: Benjamin Jack Jefferson." BJ leaps out of his seat and falls onto the bed. He will be drafted! ====

==== BJ wakes up at 5:00 excited to get to the draft. He gets cereal and hears a knock on the door. “Who could be knocking at such an early time?” BJ wonders. He opens the door and a police officer is standing outside the door. The man walks right in. “I have reason to believe that you robbed the front desk,” the officer says. ====

==== BJ and the officer walk downstairs and see the clerk waiting, it is about 6:00 am. The clerk is tapping his foot, waiting. "Hello, the clerk says to BJ, clearly suspicious. ====

===="Well the only thing I can do now is see the finger prints," the officer replies. After a long and tedious wait the officer finally compares the finger prints. "Well your innocent, boy, go back to your room." ====

====BJ goes up the stairs with the clerk mumbling behind him. BJ gets dressed and is ready to go out to a breakfast restaurant. BJ has not had this much luxery since his father died and his mother was thrown in jail. He could have been with her last night if he had been proven guilty, which of course he was not. BJ gets a cab to take him to a place called Minnie's Pancakes. He sits down and enjoys his breakfast of Pancakes, OJ, and sausages. Suddenly, the door bursts down and a man runs in with his gun cocked. "Get Down, this is a robbery!" he yells. BJ falls to the ground with immense fear. Could this have been the man who robbed the hotel? The man walks up to the cash register and puts the pistol to the cashier's temple. "Hand over the cash!" The robber screams. The cashier nervously opens he register and starts passing money to the robbers hand. BJ is reluctant to do anything because he doesn't want to get hurt or killed on the most important day of his life. To BJ's relief, he hears sirens come screaming down the street and the robber jumps in shock. The masked man tries to escape to the back. Once he opens the metal door outside the back of the restaurant a police man uses a taser on him. The robber falls to the ground. BJ hears a gunshot but it appears to have missed. ====

====The police man pin the robber down to put the cuffs on. Then they start to say the maranda rights. Meanwhile the officer who BJ met earlier was ushering people out of the shop. As BJ walks by the police man he said, "Lucky it wasn't you kid." BJ agreed. ====

====Finally it was time for the draft and BJ sat in his seat. The host started the ritual and teams started drafting. Every thing went as planned and at the third pick the announcer said "The Jazz pick Benjamin Jack Jefferson. BJ stands up, so excited that his eyes could pop out. He comes up and says his thank you's. But his last words are, "I've been through a lot today, and I'm lucky to be here. ====