Name: Basketball: A Love Story
Released: 2018-09-25T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Sports · Documentary

A series of short stories that feature interviews with basketball's most prominent figures and explores the complex nature of love as it relates to the game. With insights and perspectives about race, politics, media, business, and entertainment.

2018 · 9m

Director Dan Klores

EPISODE 1

Love of the Game

The best in the game share why they love basketball, and speak about the players they grew up emulating, late nights practicing in the driveway, and how basketball provided a refuge from the realities of life.

9m
EPISODE 2

The Teachers

A tribute to the role coaches have played in not just the game, but the lives of their players. Coaches speak candidly about how to motivate, teach and get the best from their players.

5m
EPISODE 3

The Choke

The 1997 incident where Latrell Sprewell choked his coach, PJ Carlesimo, sparks the conversation about the relationship between player and coach.

10m
EPISODE 4

Origins

The beginnings of basketball are traced from James Naismith to the expansion of the game across the country ? leading to the development of college leagues.

10m
EPISODE 5

Scandal

The story of a point shaving scandal in the college ranks that almost derailed the sport in the 1950s, as well as a profile of two of the first superstars of the sport: George Mikan and Bob Cousy.

16m
EPISODE 6

Signature Moves: The Feel

The Art of the Game and how some of the greatest mastered their ?Signature Moves?, featuring Chris Paul, Wes Unseld, Diana Taurasi, Allen Iverson and Earl Monroe.

10m

Dan Klores

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