My whole life, I've been playing basketball, and I've been excelling...for sure.

And it's a beautiful thing, because just like I never victimized myself coming from the environment I've come from, my amputations, I never victimized myself in that.

I never put a boundary on what I can do in terms of playing basketball.

So I was competing against people who were well-suited and most of the time winning, too, so...ha ha.

Man: So, how you doing in your new place?

King: I'm all right.

Its ups and downs with it.

Man: Yeah, like I was telling you, a change is sometimes better.

King: Mm-hmm.

Man: My name is Darryl Edwards.

I lived in the projects back when I was a teenager.

Well, I started a nonprofit, which is Uplift Sports and Mental Health.

I wanted to put the mental health part into it because of what I've been hearing the kids been going through in Nickerson's.

I put fliers out on doors, and he was the first one--him and this other kid Manu--were the first one at the gym door.

I was like, "Oh, this kid.

He has a disability, you know, with his leg and arm," but when I seen him on the floor playing, I was like, "OK, this kid he play harder than the kids that don't," so I made him my leader.

Just get one thing or two things.

Stay focused along with your basketball, and it'll take you a long way.

I feel, you know, in just talking to you as how I talk to my son the same way.

King: Yeah?

Edwards: Yeah.

So we good with that.

King: Mm-hmm.

Edwards: Happy to see you.

King: Thanks.

Edwards: My boy right here.

King: I think I embody all the problems of people within the inner city and what they're going through.

If you just look at me, you see everyone.

I want to go to college either to study nutrition, public health, or psychology, because I know those are all underlying factors that are discrepancies within the inner city.

I kind of understand the people that are able to escape the projects and never come back, but I feel a sense--a kind of burden to assist the place that built me into the character I am today.

So, I think it's a voluntary responsibility to help out.

Simple as that.