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felipe Venancio
This was fantastic to say the least. Every person who went to that game must have been so happy that night… my god… 6 three point shoots. Awesome.
Pleasenomoresteampunkcrap
I’ve seen that story a few times, but it never ceases to put a smile on my face.
Aside from the kid’s awesome play, the coaches move to get him into the game was a class act.
Jason Hirsch
J-Mac is his name, the title for the video is pretty bad and it’s nothing new. “Autistic Kid”?
He met GW Bush. He’s a local celebrity here in Rochester.
The video was shot by a student there to cover the game- he was on team 1591 Greece Gladiator Robotics for FIRST. He (I forget his name because it’s so long ago) was offered a job doing video for the local baseball team.
It’s a great story, indeed-
Adam Stanhope
It’s neat that this story has come to life again. It is indeed a year or so old and made the rounds once before. I have seen it posted as new again no less than a dozen times in the past 24 hours. This is proof that it is an excellent story.
DBinNYC
Almost 3 years old. Originally posted @ CBS March, 2006. Inspiring all the same.
Edward
I have always had a completely different reaction to this story. The coach must be a complete jerk. That idiot kept a natural long shooter on the bench because he was autistic. The school should have lynched the coach. If I was that boy’s father, I would consider suing the school for discrimination.
Scotchdrnkr
Just goes to show the old saying about “Those who can’t do teach” is completely wrong. He had been the assistant coach far years.
Bet the Couch also had to think back on how many games he should have played this guy before.
Craig
Old news, but a nice story. Someone, Disney I believe, bought the rights to make the movie.
eni
That coach must be a bit bummed seeing that. If he’d let the kid play earlier…. sheesh. That woulda been a great season.
sw
brought tears to my eyes. but why the hell didn’t they let him play before?!
Lore
That made me tear up. It’s sad that the coach didn’t make a smart decision before that.
Vanessa
That’s where I went to high school. Kid works at the grocery store around the corner stocking produce.
RJ Evans
I hadn’t heard of this before (maybe because I am in the UK) and perhaps I was feeling soppy, but I just shed a tear.
Scooter
I think i just cried a little… now I’m gonna have to do something manly to make up for that.
dsfgsdfgs
Given half a chance, I’d tie the lil’ youngster down to a chair and defecate on a ball in his lap.
milovoo
I don’t usually care about sports of any type, but that was AWESOME! Great find!
toynbeeconvector
Just because he was artistic and could play basketball I really don’t see what the big deal is.
ThEgg
@toynbeeconvector Not ARTistic, AUTistic. He’s mentally handicapped.
alkain01
This is response to dsfgsdfgs………
What kind of comment is that? Was it even neccessary!
This is an incredible story! It gives inspiration to so many people.
Moss
Damn you people are easily impressed. Nobody played defense on this tard. If I get out on the court and nobody plays D on me I’m going to drop 50 on you in the amount of time he did.
Impressive would have been the other team playing hard on him and he still did that well.
This is equal to the swim race warren sapp had with michael phelps that sapp won after phelps gave him a 55 foot head start.
Chuck
Moss,
You can’t possibly be that heartless or stupid to really believe the drivel you spout. An autistic young man, playing for the first time in a real game sinks 6 3-pointers and you’ve got the gall to downplay the accomplishment. And you call him a “tard”? I think we know who the idiot is!
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