Autistic basketball player creates mayhem at game

published by dag

1 year 6 months ago • 4540 views

tags: basketball, autism, amazing, zone, spree, Rochester, Greece, Athena, highschool, McElwain

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Gotta say, this video choked me up a bit. Great for him!

written by lebuitrago | 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Yep it sure is easy to tear up watching that video. I here they are nowthinking of making a feature film of it

written by presterjohn

| 2 years 6 months ago | CH

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I'm new to this site, and honestly expected the top vids to be the same as on youtube and google..bunch of chicks dancing or kareoke rehashes. I'd not seen this video before until seeing it on videosoft...and all I can say is WOW...This is why sites like this need to exist, to get stuff like this unburied and out there. This video was just awesome. I'm super glad for that kid, I'm sure he'll remember that game for the rest of his life.

written by Joe_DT

| 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Thanks for the kind words Joe - We believe in people power to sift the good stuff. Welcome to the community.

BTW, I was reading somewhere that they have optioned the movie rights for this story - cool stuff.

written by dag

| 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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amazing, i'm so tired of seeing idiots blow themsleves up or iraqi war sniper videos. or drinking contest puke sessions...this is classic.

written by justgetsome

| 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Yea this guy is a great kid. It's amazing what people can do. Although I can say I've heard enough of it, since I live in Rochester, New York, only 10 minutes away from the high school that he goes to.

They actually are working on a script for the movie or so I've heard. Although how long can the movie really be? That whole clip basically explains it all.

written by joefrags

| 2 years 5 months 1 week ago | CH

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i saw this clip on ebaumsworld.com. it also had another clip that i think goes a little more in depth, but the point remains the same in both. i would definatly go see that movie.

written by Dignant_Pink | 2 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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OH MY GOD! I've had a lot of goosebumps! BRILLIANT MOMENT!!!

written by ir0xah | 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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you can't make this up. Thank you very much for posting this.

written by drforeverclear

| 2 years 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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*nominate

written by mlx

| 1 year 11 months ago | CH

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This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member mlx)

written by siftbot

| 1 year 11 months ago | CH

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_McElwain

written by deputydog

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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*promote

written by silvercord

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Sunday 26th February 2006 (promotion called by gold star member silvercord)

written by siftbot

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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go whitey go

written by CaptainPlanet420

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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*sport

written by michie

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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a tear to the eye...

written by don_vicente

| 1 year 4 months 1 week ago | CH

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as the mother of an autistic child, I really appreciate this video being up there...

written by smibbo

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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*1stTube

written by Grimm

| 11 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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written by siftbot

| 11 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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definitely *sports, too!

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| 11 months 1 week ago | CH

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written by siftbot

| 11 months 1 week ago | CH

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*promote

written by Deano

| 11 months ago | CH

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Promoting this classic video back to the front page; last published Sunday, April 8th, 2007 11:39pm PDT - promote requested by Deano.

written by siftbot

| 11 months ago | CH

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Love this one. It's from my hometown - Rochester, NY.

Greece is the NW suburb of Rochester where I grew up. This happened at Greece Athena High School. I went to Greece Olympia, right down the road.

written by my15minutes

| 10 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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*happy highchool *kids do the darndest things.
and hopefully, coming to a *cinema near you...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_McElwain

and kulpims sent me this related sift, yesterday.
i need a new playlist for this kind of stuff, specifically.
"handicapable" maybe, something like that, but not corny.

written by my15minutes

| 7 months ago | CH

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written by siftbot

| 7 months ago | CH

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'basketball, autism, amazing' to 'basketball, autism, amazing, zone, spree, Rochester, Greece, Athena, highschool, McElwain' - edited by my15minutes

written by siftbot

| 7 months ago | CH

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