"Bound" begins when "Hoop Dreams" left off, the characters going from high school to college in "Hoop Dreams" and in "Bound" the film begins following Robert Johnson in his senior year of college, as he works to graduate from the University of Oregon, and get his way into the NBA. The film focuses on the untold story of the thousands of college basketball stars who felt their whole lives they were destined for the NBA, but are in fact, bound for a career overseas...
"In 1996, a young man named Robert Johnson moved from a shooting-ravaged neighborhood in San Francisco's Fillmore district to Sebastopol, where he became a star basketball player at Analy High School. He went on to play a lead role for the University of Oregon team that reached the Elite 8 in the NCAA tournament in 2002. He dreamt of making it to the NBA. Sebastopol filmmaker Brenden Hamilton chronicles Johnson's journey..."
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