A film telling the story of Dominican basketball prodigy Luis Felipe López premiered on ESPN on Tuesday, 30 April 2019. It is the story of a “can’t miss kid who turned out to be more of a miss than a hit.” “The Dominican Dream” premiered over the weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York prior to debuting on ESPN.
López was a heavily hyped high school superstar from New York who had stayed in the city to play at St. John’s University, but never lived up to the expectations.
While an injury cut short his professional career, the film tells a story of perseverance and family. López is active in the community through his nonprofit foundation and NBA Cares, president of a community center basketball team in the Dominican Republic, and has returned to St. John’s at times in the two decades since he became his family’s first college graduate to talk to players about how to be a professional.
“I think my story transcends to other people because this is the reason why we come here and this is the reason why we struggle to learn the language so we can become a success story,” López told FoxSports in an interview.
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1 May 2019