ESPN To Air 10 Part Film “Basketball: A Love Story” Starting Oct. 9Posted by Wilson Morales
October 9, 2018
Starting Oct. 9, from 7pm – 11pm, ESPN will air their new, unprecedented 20 hour, 10 part film, “Basketball: A Love Story” by Peabody award winning director Dan Klores (Crazy Love, Black Magic). The first four hours premieres tonight.
The sweeping project explores the complex nature of love as it relates to the game and opens the window to insights and perspectives about race, politics, media, art, business, style and entertainment.
The film consists of 62 Short Stories on the NBA, ABA, College Hoops, the Women’s Game, International Basketball, and Socio-Cultural issues told by 165 Legends (with celebrity narrators), will be premiering on ESPN this October and November.
The cast encompasses basketball’s most prominent figures, from Bob Cousy, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dr. J, Yao Ming, Stephen Curry, Rebecca Lobo and Diana Taurasi, to Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant as well as producer of the film, former NBA great Earl “The Pearl” Monroe.
The episodes features different notable narrators: Chadwick Boseman, Julianne Moore, Chris Cuomo, Ashley Judd, Michael Che, Ansel Elgort, Ahmad Rashad, Robin Quivers, Daveed Diggs, and Fisher Stevens.
As of September 18, all 62 short stories were made available on the ESPN App. The full film will air in a serialized format in primetime on ESPN over five Tuesdays: October 9, from 7-11 p.m., October 16, from 7-11 p.m., October 23, from 7-11 p.m., October 30, from 8 p.m-12 a.m., and November 13, from 8 p.m-12 a.m. (all times ET.)
