Release Date:
10/12/2004
For every NBA superstar making millions and faking his way through random drug tests, there are about 100 athletes with similar talent who never make it off the playground. Demetrius "Hook" Mitchell is one of those cats. The 5'9" dunk machine (there's footage of him dunking over fans, furniture, and cars) grew up schooling current NBA players like Jason Kidd and Gary Payton in Oakland. But by age 10, he was smoking weed, and by high school, he was getting a gram of coke per in-game dunk from the local drug dealers. Hooked gets the details from interviews with Payton, Kidd, and relatives, while the extras watch Hook struggle to resume a normal life after 51 months in prison. Catch him taking it to other inmates in prison-yard games, see his first day out of the pen, and get interviews with his mentors from inside. There are also extra interviews with the NBA's Baron Davis and Steve Francis on similar kids they knew growing up and a special on basketball's significance in jail. Turns out the Trailblazers aren't the only ones concentrating more on eight balls than basketballs.