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Basketball: A Love Story

  • 2018
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~20m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.3/10

'Basketball: A Love Story' is a series of 62 interconnected short stories that creates a vibrant mosaic of the game, featuring 165 exclusive interviews. The cast encompasses basketball's most prominent figures and explores the complex nature of love as it relates to the game.

Latest: Season 1 · 2018

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  1. E1. Love of the Game

    Sep 18, 2018 · 10m

    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.

  2. E2. The Teachers

    Sep 18, 2018 · 6m

    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.

  3. E3. The Choke

    Sep 18, 2018 · 10m

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

  4. E4. Origins

    Sep 18, 2018 · 11m

    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.

  5. E5. Scandal

    Sep 18, 2018 · 16m

    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.

  6. E6. Signature Moves: The Feel

    Sep 18, 2018 · 11m

    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.

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