audience thanks to those amateur videos. i saw a lot of letters for the white house. meeting president bush. getting to meet magic johnson. going to the final four that year. jason leaves greece athena high school as a student in 2006. but in 2009 returns to his alma mater, this time as an assistant coach. no one would deny it s a triumph jason has earned. it feels great to get back to the game that i always loved. nice shot. final seconds of february 13th, 2006. now everyone is saying an autistic kid can do this. being awsk is not bad. if he can achieve this. nothing to run from. it s nothing to be afraid of who you are. i feel like he inspired probably millions of people. do whatever you put your mind to. you can achieve anything you want. just don t give up.
basically getting water for the team, encouraging guys on the court. it was fantastic. i can always see he s excited in his white shirt and tie. his shirt would be out in the first quarter. he would be yelling and screaming. i didn t realize everybody else had seen that too. jason s dedication inspires players like ricky wallace and varsity coach jim johnson to set a plan into motion. we had already brainstormed it. let s get this league built for this kid so we kf a substantial amount of time to get in. we had talked during the season that i couldn t promise him he was going to get in the game but i had the uniform for senior night. he works so hard in practice. that was the least we could do, is to push for him to get in the game. february 15th, 2006, excitement is building for greece athena s last game of the
videos. i received a lot of letters from the white house, getting to meet president bush and magic johnson. jason leaves greece athena high school as a student in 2006. but in 2009 returns to his alma mater, this time as an assistant coach. no one would deny it s a triumph jason has earned. it feels great to get back to the game that i always loved. now everyone is saying an autistic kid can do this. ks autistic is not bad, if he can achieve this, it s nothing to run from. it s nothing to be afraid of who you are. i feel like he inspired probably millions of people. do whatever you put your mind to. you can achieve anything you want. just don t give up.
there s no better feeling than that. jason s fan base quickly expands into a much wider audience thanks to those amateur videos. i saw a lot of letters from the white house. meeting president bush. getting to meet magic johnson. jason leaves greece athena high school as a student in 2006. but in 2009 returns to his alma mater, this time as an assistant coach. no one would deny it s a triumph jason has earned. it feels great to get back to the game that i always loved. now everyone is saying an autistic kid can do this. being autistic is not bad. if he can achieve this, it s nothing to run from. it s nothing to be afraid of who you are. i feel like he inspired probably millions of people. do whatever you put your mind to. you can achieve anything you
game. february 15th, excitement is building for greece athena s last game of the season. jason teacher is one of many in the crowd. very excited that there was a game that night. and that there was a chance that he was going to be able to get in for the first time. in the back of my mind i was just thinking oh my goodness i hope the coach lets him in. fans fill the bleachers. many of them are shooting amateur video as the game gets under way. they have signed, j-mac signs. they had pictures of his face on little paint sticks. it sent a chill down your back. but near the end of the second half, the clock is ticking down, and jason, number 52 is still on the the bench. the crowd throughout the game, because they would periodically start chanting we want j-mac. just in case i had forgotten.