He Was The #1 Pick But Then Something Terrible Happened 

RIP Ben Wilson 😩💯🏀

Ben Wilson and Len Bias RIP to two of the biggest WHAT IF.

This why derrick rose wears number 25 right

Derrick rose wore number 25 with the Knicks in his honor!

Being from the south side of Chicago I have heard this story my whole life and its good that we still hear about his story rip Ben Wilson 💯👏

"He was the best high school player they'd EVER seen" ESPN says that about everything, though.

He died because the hospital took two hours to operate on him. They had no trauma team, but Chicago law required that ambulances take people to the nearest hospital, regardless of whether or not they were equipped to handle the patient. The law was changed after this.

We've all seen 30 for 30 Benji

He looks like Al Horford

Did anyone notice like the 2 best people nba could've have died? Like Len Bias and Ben Wilson🏀

dam that is sad it is alway sad when someone dies no matter what but to see it happened because his girl was petty is just sad

Sad, ,,,I will never forget BEN WILSON. I lived in Chicago during this time and followed all the Chicago public league basketball from 1970 to 1991 faithfully I have seen the best of the best so many great players I use to skip school and leave early to go to games I would get a ticket if I could but regardless I was getting in to see the game. I would be at so many big games that the security would let me in knowing I would get in any way. To let you know I am real all final 4s were played at the anthem theater 43rd and Halsted I seen them all from BO ELLIS to Jamie Brandon, I first saw BEN as a sophomore and I got to admit I wasn't impressed i guess it was so many good players on that team he didn't standout, but when you check the sats he would have 12 pts 7 rbs 2blk 3atts very quietly and very smooth doing it in his Jr year he was unstoppable best I ever seen , I have seen a lot of great highschool players come out of Chicago so many I can't name them all, but BEN WILSON Was the best. I can remember those sickening days like it was yesterday ,hearing he was shot to praying for him to recover to hearing he passed away the next day Chicago was never the same to me, the world was cheated that day over a senseless act.

Him and len bias are such sad stories i really wish we the fans got to see both those guys play in the nba and do what they did best...........r. i.p young kings

This is not right. I remember when this happened. Ben was the number 1 High School player in the country but he wasn't going in the draft. He was considering scholarships from colleges. NBA didn't pick players from High School like that back then. With the exception of Daryl Dawkins, Moses Malone and Bill Willoughby the NBA didn't think that high school players were mature emotionally and physically to handle the rigors of the NBA

Lol if jordan wasn't the greatest there would never been any jordans there would have been bennys😂😂 but R.I.P. Ben Wilson🙏

RIP ben Wilson took to early

WHO ELSE KNOWS THIS STORY FROM NETFLIX

Man I knew him personally and it broke my heart when this happened..Rest on Benji

You Said he never got drafted why the title say he was number 1 pick?

Oh wow man... Handles you got the best vids bro don't know how you find this stuff

I have been sub handles since 10k and makes great videos keep up the good work

I watched the doc and just cried. He got shoot and the doctors were horrible and he died. He could've have been Michel Jordan rival what bird was to magic. He was just so talented. RIP BEN WILSON🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Why is it that every young basketballer who died before they took off ‘would’ve been better than Jordan?’ Gathers, Bias, Wilson, etc

Rip ben, his son was named brandon williams. He also died not to long ago in the beginning of this year

Ben Lias

I was playing at a small college in Illinois at this time. I don't remember Ben being considered the greatest high schooler ever. I think he was rated number one in his class after the summer camps before his senior year. Also guys weren't going straight to the NBA at that time. He was supposed to go to DePaul. It was even unusual for a guy to leave after his sophomore season like Magic and Isaiah Thomas did.

RIP Benji

Keep it up, this channel is headed towards the millions in subscribers.

Excellent video, man. Pure excellence.

I remember this story.. one of the most heartbreaking stories I think the city of Chicago in the state of Illinois ever experienced. this was just so awful.

He was also set to go to the university of Illinois, and would have been apart of one of the greatest teams ever assembled at Illinois. His former teammate at Simeon, nick Anderson started the tradition of wearing the number 25. And ever since, every Simeon player to go to Illinois wears the number 25: Deon Thomas Kendrick Nunn both wore the number 25 at Illinois. Wilson would have joined Anderson, Gill, Bardo, Battle, Hamilton, Liberty, Smith, And Ervin Small another Simeon player at Illinois. That would have been one of the greatest teams ever in college basketball!!! All from the state of Illinois!

imagine the 1988-89 illinois team that lost to michigan in the final four with benji and kenny battle! that would have been UGLY!

Rip Ben and thanks rose for rocking his jersey number

Make a video on the high school phenom Marcus Liberty and why he didn't live up to his potential

O I remember this story I seen it on RU-vid Billy started talking shit to him should've kept going on with his business smh

Such a sad story but good to see his son is doing good.

so his girlfriend was a terrible person, and he was too much of a hot head. damn. life sucks sometimes.

The lessons here are to not grow up too fast. Relationships and sex SHOULD wait until after college or your career has started. Don’t have sex unless you want a family. Put your sport, your education, your career first. And don’t lose your cool in the streets. You don’t know who you might be getting into it with. WALK AWAY

Funny thing is she refuses to speak on the incident. And you know what else would be ironic, what if the kid wasn't even his? This was a sad situation.

R.I.P Ben Wilson the real 🐐 🙏

Rip benji

Learned about him in 7th grade, the guy that shot Ben cousin was my YMCA teacher and I had a chance to talk to the killer and ask him questions!

Thought only a few people knew about benji wilson If you didn't know why Derrick Rose wore 25 know you know💪🏾

The 3 ppl who disliked were billys gf, billy and bens gf

i remember this story tragic we lost a GOAT

Everyone not from Chicago pronounces Simeon wrong 😂😂

Wow..his story sound so much like the movie Cooley High..

Also, R Kelly was his teammate. And he sang as his funeral.

Rest up big cuz 🏀❤️😭😫🥺

Forget 60 k!!! We going for 100k

R.I.P Benji 🏀

Please! Did anybody think MJ was going to be the player he turned out to be. R.I.P Ben!

Whats the real reason she DIDN'T want that man around his own child what a hateful young minded fool !!!! Why didn't his family fight for rights to see the baby??? This young man was blessed with a way out ... BEFORE he could fulfill his adult mission he was taken too soon and couldn't be saved by his own neighborhood. This story will always be sad , unfortunate, tragic, unfair, and it just doesn't make sense... Justice wasn't reallt served...

Love your vids Handles

Cochise from Cooley high was drafted after this man Ben Wilson.... RIP Ben💯

Derrick Rose wore his jersey at semon then when he lef chicago an went to the knicks he wore 25 in honor of chicago R.I.P everybody

Drose wore 25 in highschool in honor of him to because they let him wear his number for being the best player on the team and I think jabari did to

Benji my boy benji Wilson

RIP BEN WILSON I'LL MISS YOU

Theres a whole documentary film to watch abotu Ben Wilson and that shooting situation...I recommend you do find it and watch it...

Spike lee need to make a movie about him and have will smith play ben Wilson

You missed the part about how he started a tradition at the high school for the best player on the time to wear his jersey number.

MPJ is like the second coming of benji. This 30 for 30 or e60 was a good One

Everyone called him benji Wilson not Ben

R.I.P you will always be loved 🏀😢😭

who else waiting on cashnasty to react 🤔

Love your videos keep it up!

Anyone here in Chicago knows of "Benji" his nickname such a sad story and his number is the tradition at Simmion

ey man, early squad !!!!! love your content and the stories! keep it up man! been here since 1k!!!!

RIP TO LEN BIAS 🏀🏀🏀🏀⛹🏾⛹🏾⛹🏾

How did l end up here? l don't know.After listen to this 🙈 lts 💔 breaken.Young man lost his life for no reason.lts a hurtn thang for someone to take a person life they can't give back.Why we have to continue pray for our young people🙏.

This should be on Investigation Discovery.

Handles I love ur videos God Bless keep doing AWESOMEEEEE Videos

This is on Netflix

this was mad tragic. What a waste of talent😕😣😢

He looks like Nick Batum

My nigga handles. BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE DOPE VIDS.

Literally yesterday I was wonderin if someone would make a video about Ben Wilson he's really forgotten about a lot

NOTIFICATION GANG!!🔥🔥

We will never forget you ben

Latest but the vids is str8 fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Handles says the same shit in every high school video

Lol, replace Michael Jordan. 😂😂😂😂

DAMMIT I ALREADY WATCH DIS but good vid!!!

Favorite channell

I remember this. Never met him but he was a big deal in the Chi. Yep the hospitial was not equipped to handle that type of trauma. Yes yes this was a tragedy.

Yes,i remember that name ben wilson hes playing like michael jordan vince carter combination plsying like a bull,but after that last appearance where espn conduct an exhibition matches ,ben wilson has made 60 points ,i dont know what happen to him.after the game his name disappear quickly and never drafted in the nba because of the tragedy happen to him.

Sorry to hear about this.

This city has never recovered from this. He was our shining star.

benji has a documentary too and i find it the best one yet

Just subbed up great vids

A social worker from our school went to the same high school as Ben in the same year

I was lucky to see Benji play i was in the 8th grade when me and my 8th grade basketball saw him dude was magic on the court

Your videos are so addicting

Michael Jordan, Len Bias, Ben Wilson could have been the next chapter of NBA... three of them going at each other for a championship, what if.

I had a book about nba players and it talked about this dude because one of his friends was in the nba

Damn I never heard of Ben being a basketball fanatic around the era. What a senseless way to die and that dumb ass girlfriend wouldnt let him see his child. Had he made it in the pros she would have use the child

Rip Benji CHI TOWN LEGEND

Just subscribed !!🔥🔥

Magic without the jump shot