>> ms. gomez. i'll never forget that. and ms. was one of the sweetest, kindest people i'd ever met in my life. but in that moment, i was so mad because, you know, i wanted to throw my hat in the air too. >> he graduated, thanks to summer school. at auburn, he was a star, yes, for his skills, but also for his heroic appetite. he embraced his nickname: the round mound of rebound. >> charles barkley! wow! >> drafted in 1984, he became a charismatic nba star for the philadelphia 76ers. >> he's the shortest man ever to lead the nba in rebounding, proof that - for all barkley's yuks - he played with fury. >> i was playing to stick it to my dad, ms. gomez, and some of the kids who had made fun of me, instead of just wanting to be great at basketball. >> what's firing up this furnace is the anger you have for your spanish teacher that flunked you. >> yes. >> and your dad. >> yes, 100%. >> what caused you to flush out this anger and get motivated for a different reason? >> the spittin' incident in new jersey. >> in 1991, he spat at a heck