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Year 1970. Lasalle University (Pennsylvania). This year a particular trainer named Paul Westhead takes care of the basketball team on campus. In addition to his work as a coach, Westhead is also responsible for teaching of literature and poetry as it is a great expert on Shakespeare, among other authors. Multifaceted man, used to train his players some books like "Zen and the Art of Archery or" The Inner Game of Tennis ", forcing the boys to do things as unusual as rounds shot basket without the ball, or tests of free throws with his eyes closed. And best of all, the teachings of work Westhead, victories and consistently reach the Philadelphia coach graduated in Literature begins to make a name in the world of basketball.

That same year, several thousands of miles away in Pennsylvania, specifically in Denver, a strong power forward debutante born in Mississippi in the ABA just got in the same year with the Denver Rockets Rookie and MVP awards for the season averaging 30 points and 20 rebounds. Playmaker and very eccentric, Spencer Haywood butt lives both inside and outside the court, delivered to his great passions: basketball, girls, alcohol and jazz. Haywood, a real Olympic champion (in Mexico '70) starts knocking on the doors of the NBA and major equipment raffle it.

Thus, these two disparate characters begin the 70's ready to conquer the world. And things are rolling well, Westhead get make a success of its ultra-fast game plan La Salle, a run-and-gun at full speed in which the defense to put away all the meat in the attack. No matter if you can match scoring 160 points 161. The University reaches twice the NCAA tournament and in 1979 Paul Westhead received great news: Jack McKinney, a friend and the then coach Los Angeles Lakers offered to be his assistant in the California franchise. And few weeks later, skip the surprise, since McKinney suffered a serious bicycle accident and delegates the work of coach Westhead. Of training in college to do the best team in the world in just two years, good deal for him.

Spencer Haywood's career has more bumps in the road. After signing for the Seattle Supersonics and make several seasons at a high level, with even all-star, bit by bit the excesses are making the game slip. The nights are growing longer, success attracts bad company like cocaine and is traded to the Knicks, where these problems do not get worse. In New York there is much more cocaine and thousands of other women, where he met top model Magnet (later wife of David Bowie) with which ends up marrying. After calling at the New Orleans Jazz, basketball (by Paul Westhead) gives one last chance reeencontrarse himself recruited by Los Angeles Lakers.

Haywood was a personal commitment Westhead, who even had to change to Adrian Dantley to get the player southerner. But from the start things do not go well, and that Haywood was already visibly affected by his problems with the coaína and crack size was not on the track and did nothing but create problems and controversy wherever he went. During games, he would rise from the bench waving a towel and yelling his name so that people will corease and request the coach to deliver him to court. Months passed and the Lakers reached the NBA final against the Philadelphia Sixers, and Haywood had a chance to assert themselves and show the coach I could trust him, but nothing is further from the truth. One day, after a long talk Westhead technique where he taught for several videos of rival players, the TV was turned off, the lights came on and there was Spencer Haywood completely asleep. Reluctantly he rose from his chair and went with his companions to training after ankle bandage asked very bad manners scissors to a teammate. He told her that things could be done with good manners, to which he replied that Haywood "If I have to ask for the scissors, I prefer not to use" . Training began, and within minutes he was again sleeping soundly, and that was the straw that broke the camel to Westhead, who decided to expel the player from the team for the rest of the playoffs.

Spencer Haywood then did what any sane person would not have done. Filled with rage and at the top of cocaine, took his car and hurried home as a plan brewing in his troubled mind: "I left the Forum and as I was in my home Rolls swam to one thought: that Westhead had to die " . Came home and not only withdrew its plans, but continued scheming, and decided that the best way to end the coach was to manipulate the brakes on his car. He called a friend, a gangster from Detroit, and explained the situation and what needed to be done. Everything was ready, but the mother of Haywood finished learning about the issue and after talking with his son and made him reconsider. Luckily for Westhead, the erudite professor of literature, just to get rid of starring in their own flesh tints great Shakespearean tragedy. The truth is that for some or other reasons, and Haywood and Westhead had a long career in Los Angeles, their unique personalities led them to places more colorful than the first line away from sports in which to rediscover themselves, Haywood rehabilitated and feeling like a basketball person and valid, and Westhead for his part successfully launch its supersonic tactical game.