Motivation Bias was cut twice from his junior high school team Listen to the story Bias was in the midst of a critical phase in his basketball development, using a setback to fuel a fiery determination to be a great basketball player. He had been cut from Greenbelt Junior High school, in the seventh and eighth grades. “It was one of the big shocks in my life,” Bias said in a 1985 Washington Post article. “I remember going down the steps to look at the [team] list and my name