My whole life, I've been playing basketball, and I've been excelling...for sure.
And it's a beautiful thing, because just like I never victimized myself coming from the environment I've come from, my amputations, I never victimized myself in that.
I never put a boundary on what I can do in terms of playing basketball.
So I was competing against people who were well-suited and most of the time winning, too, so...ha ha.
Man: So, how you doing in your new place?
King: I'm all right.
Its ups and downs with it.
Man: Yeah, like I was telling you, a change is sometimes better.
King: Mm-hmm.
Man: My name is Darryl Edwards.
I lived in the projects back when I was a teenager.
Well, I started a nonprofit, which is Uplift Sports and Mental Health.
I wanted to put the mental health part into it because of what I've been hearing the kids been going through in Nickerson's.
I put fliers out on doors, and he was the first one--him and this other kid Manu--were the first one at the gym door.
I was like, "Oh, this kid.
He has a disability, you know, with his leg and arm," but when I seen him on the floor playing, I was like, "OK, this kid he play harder than the kids that don't," so I made him my leader.
Just get one thing or two things.
Stay focused along with your basketball, and it'll take you a long way.
I feel, you know, in just talking to you as how I talk to my son the same way.
King: Yeah?
Edwards: Yeah.
So we good with that.
King: Mm-hmm.
Edwards: Happy to see you.
King: Thanks.
Edwards: My boy right here.
King: I think I embody all the problems of people within the inner city and what they're going through.
If you just look at me, you see everyone.
I want to go to college either to study nutrition, public health, or psychology, because I know those are all underlying factors that are discrepancies within the inner city.
I kind of understand the people that are able to escape the projects and never come back, but I feel a sense--a kind of burden to assist the place that built me into the character I am today.
So, I think it's a voluntary responsibility to help out.
Simple as that.