The Godfather of D.C. Basketball was Also a Cocaine Kingpin 

Screw what the media and government says. He cared about and helped more people than they ever will. Dude just wanted to help his community. A true king right there.

Police: *MAJOR DRUG KINGPIN ARRESTED IN S.E.* Vice: *SHOWS A PICTURE OF 26 BULLETS AND A DUFFLE BAG* 😐

This man help me an all my friends out when I was a youth. Even if you wasn’t going to college he sat down with you and help you map out a plan for the future. Thanks coach for helping me choose the military. 10 years later that was The best decision I ever made. SouthEast DC Minnesota Avenue

Kingpin? That little bit of dope doesn't make him a Kingpin....sounds like a side hustle gone sloppy

I was away with Curt @ Lewisburg. He’s a good dude. One of the realest people I got to meet. Wish you the best bro. 2020 can’t come quick enough.

Keith Bogans been 40 years old his whole life

Old vice slowly coming back

Curtis was a true og..real og keep the youngters out of the streets

He did what he had to do to help those kids and create a good AAU team that's still around. Hes a good dude

They were acting like dude was spending the money on yachts and cars lmao. The money was getting to the kids

Sounds like this man was a mixture of both good and bad... just like EVERY human being.

Definitely helped me get my mid major scholarship. One of the best men I’ve ever known.

Ask them DEA agents how many kids they helped go to college!

I grew up in DC and knew Curtis he was a hood hero that had very good intentions to help the inner city kids prosper through basketball, but got caught up with the bad sides of DC struggles and inner city problems.

Sometimes dirty money from a helping hand, is still a helping hand. Can u dig it - Black Dynamite

This is foolish I grew up with slim. To say he engaged in activity that made him a kingpin is malicious slander. He cared about the kids and he wasn't a kingpin. Most young men from our era made some choices that weren't best involving the streets but that was a part of how we were socialized in limited opportunities. He is a normal dude that played ball and helped others to get themselves in a position to play the game for a living. He wasn't Ray or Cornell in anyway.

The state with the most NBA players isn't exactly a state... it's D.C. It's incredible how much talent is churned out by that single city. No joke.

Never sell no crack where you rest at.

Keith Bogans. I remember when he and Joseph Forte played at Dematha high school they were the best backcourt in the DMV

Curt was a blessing to me! Forever thankful Curt and the Malone family ✊🏾

At the end of the day once you get caught all you are is a prisoner... I wish the brother well. Hopefully all the kids he helped will return the favor. One

1 kilo makes you a kingpin??? 🤔

Never sell crack where you rest at! I don’t care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce !

1/2 a key to a key. Damn! That's nothing. Don't try to be a black man helping your community.

No drug dealer is pushing drugs on people, the addicts choose to get on drugs. Yall are quick to criticize, but ronald Reagan and George bush pushed drugs on dc streets. Bring them up too

Amazing that the feds call this man a king pin with that little bit of drugs. Drug king pins don't get a little bit of time.

Who snitch on him

And now there are no more drugs on the streets of DC.......... Doesn’t this all seem so stupid. Legalize and regulate, tax and rehabilitate.

Do as I say not as I do. He was a good influence for the kids, he changed lives for the better.

Glad that one can acknowledge what Curtis did for him, despite the craziness in which he involved himself

Mr. Malone was a great person for DC help a lot of kids that needed help I remember him like it was yesterday 💪

Know l will draw the wrath of many, but so what! Just turned 80 yesterday...Came to DC at the age of 16, finished my last 2 years and graduated from McKinley Tech in 1958... 1959 got a job at St. ELIZABETHS as a nursing asst....1962 entered the USAF, served 4 years, returned 1966....1970 started work for DC DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS... 26 years there working at Lorton Correctional fac... retired 1997.... Lauding this guy is like praising the guy who beats his wife but helps others... I'm happy for those he did help move on...BUT his good deeds dwarf his drug selling which created burglars, rapists and who knows what else..remember that.....he promoted drug sales to make other YOUNG BLACK people addicts or drug dependent.. How does him helping others along the way make him a decent human being.....He helped his many? 25..50..100...500 people? Bet whatever that number is...Double that to find the number of druggies he and his 'crew' created and made RICH those people running rehab centers, not to mention help fill up the DC JAIL and/or send to Lorton.....l saw many of them there.... Yeah, praise the monster who helped create many grieving mothers just like Rayful Edmonds did......NOT ME....NEVER!

1986 kingpin sold tons of dope - fast forward - 2019, ONE key of dope makes you a kingpin -- this makes no sense

Drugs don’t destroy lives, the government does.

He sounds like a really really good man I'll be praying for him it sounds like God's grace is on him and his kids dearly love him

This guy's a f***ing Hero!! he risked it all n used a broken system to help those young men achieve their dreams.

Anybody else wondering how he got caught?

CURTIS IS A REAL BOSS! I don't care what u say

He was From Palmer Park, Not DC

Heroine is the worst drug someone can sell and use.....

Great man with good intention for kids I love it

I remember the 70s when D.C. was known as Chocolate City...those were the days! HS Basketball was big and we had many great players like Adrian Dantley and Austin Carr. There were two avenues for hoops the CYO and the Interhigh. Then the drug culture took over during the 80s and 90s. I just don`t remember when AAU the became bigger than the CYO and Interhigh in the DMV or this dude Malone?

If he gave back to the community in general I can certainly applaud that but I’m not sure how virtuous it is to help young guys who appear the have nba potential. That is a very small percentage of our demographic

So basically he was a robin hood a pee wee kirkland of sorts... Yea its wrong but his heart and purpose is much bigger than this rite now. Im not glorifying this at all, trust me I know n know several of these types of men and the media n white people gone judge him, for his family n kids he coached, they know his real purpose n gift in life.

Wow he did so much for D.C. basketball and was respected by many. We are keeping the D.C. basketball legacy alive in Shanghai.

HOW can one call themselves helping young people while having a hand in helping to supply poison into their neighborhoods???---REALLY????-

I think that a lot of drug dealers consider it a family business, and the reality of the fact is people who use drugs like heroin and cocaine are for the most part already using those drugs. I really don't think it makes those people evil, and it doesn't necessarily make them responsible for the users' addiction. Most people who buy heroin from street dealers didn't get addicted by those same street dealers, 99% of the time.

“Claims to help kids without father figures” “Creates situations to destroy father figures”

it's a shame how the agents are trying to paint this man as another "evil villain",when ALL they do is hurt the community by taking fathers away & like in this case for a lot of those kids he probably was the only one who cared who showed them love on the daily.

This series is awesome! Keep it up

Escobar built villages for the poor: surely by that standard he was a good and upright man.

Yo!!!! This is the craziest shit!!! I'm on here looking at videos and stumbled on this!!!! I went to a juco named Potomac State College in Keyser, West Virginia in 1987 with this kat(he stayed banging that go go music)!!!!!! I was there for football though. This kat came to WV with trash bags full of sneakers!!!!!! My man was nice with the rock!!!!! The only black folks at the juco were the athletes.....football and basketball and we all gravitated to each other. I'll never forget our football team going to a Pot State bball game and getting in a fight with the opposing team's baseball team(Hagerstown if I remember correctly) because one of those inbreds spit on one of our players!!!!! We beat the dog shit out of those klowns!!!! That shit was on local t.v.!!!!!!

It’s crazy how drug dealers do more for the poor than billionaires who made their money “legit” would.

Idk he probably sold to people the children he worked with knew. I think it's a front, a passion and a way to release guilt of selling drugs to his own neighborhood, leading to homes being torn apart or never the same. Bc he could have helped more people by not giving drugs. He only wanted a specific group in the community to do well. And it's hard for anyone to do well surrounded in a drug epidemic. Selling drugs just made it harder for him to reach the children he wanted to help. Very backwards trippy person.

Man this sounds like a set up. When the Asian agent said that he was distributing only 1/2-1 key. It sounds like they just wanted to get him out the community because of what he was doing for the youth. That's government for ya.

For those unaware Curtis is back home!

Why is it illegal to sell something to make ends meet? Cause some old fucks said its illegal? His good outweighs the “dealing”.

He had to be that way to survive... In the hood, being a coach means you have to have money to be respected.

he is a discipline re-seller who likes basketball very much

So our tax dollars pay for athletic programs that benefit from drug trafficking? All sports of all ages should be privatized. I'm tired of paying for drug dealers, rapists, abusers and dead beat fathers because they can playba sport. Tax dollars should be spent on job and life training.

It’s always a 🐀 in the crew 🤦🏿‍♂️ #FreeCurt

I see a bunch of excuses being made for this guy or scapegoats and agencies being called out to deflect his part in destroying individuals in his community instead of actually helping to put a stop to their usage. You're moving the weight so why not flip that into some government funded facility to help those individuals detox and stop selling?

I love these videos. Peace from Germany :)

Not from DC, Philly here. There is a saying I'm fond of different city same street corner. No way in hell this wasn't an open secret in DC.

Vice aint the same, lets talk about it?

I saw the thumbnail and thought this was a "Chocolate Rain" remix.

One PLANTED kilo

Everyone making excuses for him because he helped some kids out, how many lives did he destroy with the drugs he pumped into the community? Families destroyed? The neglected kids parents were probably using the drugs he was selling. Everyone supporting him In the comments is the exact reason the community is so dysfunctional, you choose to Glorify drug dealers like this instead of real leaders.

Damn I didn't know I was king pin pushing 1 key !?

“He lied pretending to help” no he actually helped many kids and families change there lives and accomplish they’re dreams and gave up his freedom for it.

Vice is starting to catch up to SB Nation

The very same city n hood u wanna leave is the same hood n community he’s destroying

He ain't did nothing worse than what them politicians in D.C. be doin...💯

I understand he helped a lot of people but that can't put a dent in the damages he caused in others lives. These people who speak highly of him are naive to the devastation his caused for generations to come. He needs to stay incarcerated for life like the families who has to live with the damages he's caused.

Dude was kinda a good dude. Respect. But yeah nobody is perfect on Earth.

every single time any law enforcement officer commits a heinous crime, we're asked to weigh that against all of the positive things they've ever done. when a civilian commits a heinous crime, it somehow makes it worse if they were great people in every other aspect of their life. i'm not saying that what he did was ok in any way...............

Here before a million man this a classic

The amount of coke that’s floating around Wall Street, they want to harass Curtis for sending homies to the league

WTF!!! They kill me one brick really!!!

Kieth is from Alexandria right across the river from DC, they have had some nice guys on the side of the DMV, T.C. Williams had some ballers. The movie Remember the Titans was based on Herman Boone the coach at that High School in Alexandria

at 48 seconds he's wrapping up a brick they got right into it on this vid...lol

The old "he's poisoning the community" line. Using drugs is a choice.

The "Robin Hood Effect" applies only to the privileged.

Good job Curtis!!! He’s a great great man in my eyes!!! He helped more than the government has ever done!

Its sad conflicting truth that the good got some bad in it and the bad got some good. But the problem is that the bad affected his legacy and tarnished the good that he did. It wasn't going to last because of the foundation that it was built upon.

This took me to tears how they break the good ones down all we trying to do is make a away n theu lock us up .....for nothing this shit backwards that's all I ever do n be a giant shootout to CM man crying n my living room cause I kno of i gotta go jail n I get to help my ppl imma take the sacrifice n sometimes that's hits the soul n tears come out n u can't help it but I'm willing to embrace it ...i got his name from Mike interview on 520 wit Jeff n em n wit that man taking money n feeding them kids n the state aint n they want them jail really disturbs me as black man from the hood that will do anything to stay alive they don't want shit for nobody why the police aint sending donations of they want stop crime so much this don't make no sense ..

Drugs should be legal

Sorry Nolan, selling drugs to our community is not a "little" bit of bad that he did.

MY homie LANDOVER ZONE soldier REAL DUDE

Just cause you get to label the game don't mean you ain't a player. The war on drugs has done more harm to American communities than the drugs themselves.

Love this series!📺🔥✊🏿✌🏿🏀

He was in a era where he meant good and probably couldn't afford his bills. Blacks weren't quite treated equally and I'm a white man saying this. I respect him

DC is were is at B

So yall start with a sympathy piece about parents not being there bc of drugs, then follow it with a piece about the man and “father figure” that was supplying their parents with the drugs smh

Curt a good man locked up with him in fort dix #Landover

The demand for drugs would be there anyway. At least the money stayed in the community.

A kilo to a half a kilo are you serious that ain't shit they acting like he had 50-100 kilos he was providing for his family and helping those who needed help

Vice sports is something special ... best thing outta vice in awhile

Fishy..someone wanted him locked up. Lame documentary..short on detail, long on sad piano music without giving us enough context.

Why basketball 🏀 and Drug dealers go hand in hand 🤚🏿