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He Got Game

Producer review

Producer Craig agrees the film runs about twenty-five minutes too long and says the sex-worker scenes drag; he adds that Jesus's unprotected, ordinary high-school life is striking for a prospect treated as a future top pick.

In the discussion (8)
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  • The producer explains that his parents' child-rearing years left him with a gap in 1990s movie knowledge.
  • He agrees that the film could be about twenty-five minutes shorter.
  • The eight-minute Milo Jobovich stretch is his clearest example of the excess length.
  • He is struck that a nationally known future top pick still attends school and plays in public without a protective structure.
  • The hosts answer that this reflects the pre-AAU and pre-social-media era.
  • LeBron is identified as the first high-school player whose fame felt nationally inescapable.
  • The later mixtape and social-media eras are described as distinct stages in high-school-player celebrity.
  • The closing explicitly credits producer Craig Horroback in the machine transcript.