Sound familiar? Twenty years after the release of the Hollywood movie “Coach Carter” – a picture that told the story of the coach suspending his undefeated team because of poor academic ...

on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2024. Coach Ken Carter has returned to coach the team twenty years after the release of the Hollywood movie “Coach Carter.” (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) It was the ...

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Playing a coach based on the real Ken Carter in Coach Carter, he is as inspiring as ever. The real Carter (as shown in the movie) made the impossible decision to suspend his all-star basketball ...

In 1999, Ken Carter accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play ...