Only with the help of Reggie (Ernie Hudson), an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, he is able to begin the long journey back to sanity, which ultimately ends with Jim's incarceration in Riker's Island for assault, robbery, resistance of arrest, and the possession of narcotics. The Basketball Diaries movie free online. He cannot go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin, for which he steals, robs, and prostitutes himself. A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction. The Basketball Diaries Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carrolls epistle into the world of drug addiction.
Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. A best friend, Bobby (Michael Imperioli), who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an appetite for cocaine and heroin, all of which begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Lewis also reunited with her Whats Eating Gilbert Grape co-star DiCaprio, appearing with him in a supporting role in the crime drama The Basketball Diaries. Based off of the novel of the same name by the famous poet, Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries is not your average basketball movie. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers on the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind.
The film is an adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's (Leonardo DiCaprio) juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.