Jim Les in Last Chance U

[Fyrebyrd]

I know y’all love your Jimmy Les. There’s a Netflix series called Last Chance U chronicling the East Los Angeles Community College basketball team. It’s a great series and later in the series Les makes a brief appearance recruiting one of the centers for ELAC.

[Big Mike]

Saw that last week....and he didn't get the player.

[Da Coach]

I know y’all love your Jimmy Les. There’s a Netflix series called Last Chance U chronicling the East Los Angeles Community College basketball team. It’s a great series and later in the series Les makes a brief appearance recruiting one of the centers for ELAC.

Interesting. Thanks for posting. I looked into "Last Chance U", and the original version was a Netflix series that ran for 5 seasons from 2016-2020 and focused on junior college football programs in Mississippi, Kansas, and Oakland, CA. Each season contained between 9-12 episodes. The 2020 season was the final season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_U

But a new version of it debuted this month (March 10, 2021), titled "Last Chance U: Basketball"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13087512/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

https://www.netflix.com/search?q=las...0&jbv=81046613 (scroll down to see info on all 8 episodes of this season)

"Last Chance U: Basketball" has 8 episodes and each episode is 50-60 minutes long. The viewer reviews posted on the IMDB website are all very positive.
User reviews- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308751...ws?ref_=tt_urv

Fyrebyrd, if you know which episode had Jim Les in it, let us know. Maybe he is in more than 1 episode? I will try to watch the series.

[Fyrebyrd]

Episode 5. About 5 minutes from the end.

[Da Coach]

Thanks, Fyrebyrd.
Of the 8 episodes, Jim Les only appears briefly in Episode #5. This series follows the East Los Angeles Community College team, players, and coaches during the 2019-20 season. It's very well done and follows the team as the coach molds a group of misfits into one of the best junior college teams in California, and helps get many of his kids to 4-year colleges.
Coach Les is shown making his case for UC-Davis and their beautiful campus and the good academics to the 6'9" center on the East LA CC team, Malik Muhammed (at the 55:30 mark of episode 5).
Episode 5 took place around January and February, 2020, in the regular season and just before their state playoffs.
For the record, Malik Muhammed ended up committing to Central Michigan, where as a junior, he was a part-time starter and averaged 5.5ppg and 5.8 rpg.