“Hoop Dreams” ends with heartbreak, not championships, its humanity in documenting crushed hopes amid injuries and setbacks, making it perhaps the greatest sports movie of all time.
Some might feel the same way about UCLA’s senior class. No, they didn’t get to raise banner No. 12, but these guys were going to give you everything they had every time they took the court while restoring the fabric of a proud program.
There was Jaime Jaquez Jr. late Thursday night inside T-Mobile Arena, powering through fatigue that would have rendered others unconscious to spark a late comeback.
