City Struggles is about a young black teenager living in the bad parts of Chicago, but he can play basketball. His name is Derek Brooks. His family is struggling to and can hardly put food on the table. The main story line is him playing streetball at the local outdoor court. The only way he can cope with the tough life in Chicago is through basketball.
The movie starts with the Beautiful Chicago Skyline and right after that they show the dirty and rough southside. After this they will show Derek Brooks in the streetball court at 12 years old draining baskets. The screen will then show 5 years later Derek in the same spot draining baskets. It will be Dereks first day of his Junior year in highschool the next day and he barely got by sophomore year.
At school Derek will try not to get involved with acts that will get him in trouble, and at first he ignores everything and focuses on basketball. So finally its basketball tryouts and Derek has been on Varsity every year and expects it again. So he trys out and they play a scrimmage game, and derek knows he is much better than the kids on his team and so he doesnt try very hard. his coach then gets in his face and screams at him and Derek turns around and trys to zone it out, but then the coach brings up his dad who had left him when he was 10, and so derek throws and elbow at him and his coach goes down
.Derek is now in serious trouble and has to go to court and is put on house arrest. He cant play basketball at his school and cant go to school for his junior year and will have to make it up later. His house arrest is throughout the whole project and there is his local streetball court in range.
Derek plays there all the time and becomes very respected and faces guys and beats them all the time. He finds a friend there and they decide to be teammates and face guys two on two for money. He is crushing teams as usual and he is about 6'3 and can handle the ball well. His friend invites him into his room in the project and is offered drugs, and he sees a bunch of other guys doing drugs and have guns on them. Derek realizes how stupid it is and he leaves his friend gets very mad and they no longer have their team. The next day at the court it is strangely quiet and suddenly a bunch of guys come out and they beat up derek very bad. He has to go to the hospital with a broken nose. Derek is very quiet and determined once he gets out of the hospital he gets right back on the court and faces his old friend who was one of the guys who had beaten him. He plays him one on one and beats him. Finally it is school time again and Derek can do basketball and there is a new coach. derek plays varsity and does very good and his school wins the state champioship, and he gets a lot of exposure. Derek begins to recieve offers from schools and one of them was a fullride to U of Iliinois. Derek goes on to play there and becomes a star. He gets drafted into the NBA by his favorite team the Chicago Bulls. END.
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