NightSide - Walking Away From Basketball Dreams

BOSTON (CBS) - Onaje Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt, was a star high school basketball player who was recruited to play at Yale. As a sophomore, he led the team in scoring and was considered one of the ten best players in the Ivy League. At that point, he decided to walk away from the game to focus on his studies. Onaje sits down with Dan to talk about why he made that decision, where it has led him since, and what the game means to so many young black men in America.

Originally broadcast June 8th, 2016.