William Gates Jr. is emerging from his famous dad’s shadow and carving his own path

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On his first day of high school almost four years ago, William Gates Jr. began to understand the pressure that came with sharing the same name as a Chicago basketball legend.

A classmate familiar with the award-winning 1994 documentary “Hoop Dreams” approached Gates that afternoon and told him he’d never be as good a player as his dad.

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