Michael Hopwood:  

The only thing I ever wanted to do was to teach, play basketball and own my own business. I have been blessed to do all three. I am proud to say that I was blessed to be student body President and captain of the basketball team my senior year at Compton High When the final buzzer went off on March 9, 1968, in the Long Beach Sport Arena, the Compton High School boys’ basketball team had not only secured a state championship, but also a place in high school sports history. Compton High School was the first team in California history to win 66 games without a loss and back-to-back undefeated state and national champions. The 50th anniversary of that historic accomplishment — in 2019 — is a record that remains unbroken. In 2013, when the California Interscholastic Federation presented its list of the top 100 athletes from the state’s high schools over the last 100 years, none of the players or coaches from the team were honored. That decision led me to produce a documentary film about the team. We set out to tell our story because we were left out of our rightful place in history, even though our record still stands. There’s an old saying that "if you never blow your own horn nobody knows you’re in the band.” At the end of 2019, I made the final edits on the 113-minute documentary, “Living Legends 66-0.” The full-length film is now available to buy or rent on Google Play and YouTube Movies. After leaving school as High school Basketball National Champions, After graduating in ’68, I attended Arizona State University on a basketball scholarship where I was a four-year starter and majored in education. I completed my degree while playing professionally in Europe, and later earned a master’s degree in Education Administration from National University, and a master’s degree in Biblical Theology from Esther Mallet International Bible University. I played for professional teams in Europe, first in France and then Switzerland. While playing in the European Converse All-Star game in Geneva in 1982, While playing in a game in Europe I was running down the court and started to daydream about after the game, what party I might go to. I always told myself tha...Expand for more