
'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.
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Air Date: 2018-09-18
The best in the game share why they love basketball, and speak about the players they grew up emulating, late nights ...
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A tribute to the role coaches have played in not just the game, but the lives of their players. Coaches speak candidl...
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The 1997 incident where Latrell Sprewell choked his coach, PJ Carlesimo, sparks the conversation about the relationsh...
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The beginnings of basketball are traced from James Naismith to the expansion of the game across the country - leading...
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The story of a point shaving scandal in the college ranks that almost derailed the sport in the 1950s, as well as a p...
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The Art of the Game and how some of the greatest mastered their "Signature Moves", featuring Chris Paul, Wes Unseld, ...
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The NBA's first dynasty, the Boston Celtics, powered by Red Auerbach and Bill Russell. And an introduction to Wilt Ch...
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Oscar Robertson and Jerry West lead the U.S. Olympic team in a symbolic win against the USSR during the Cold War in ...
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How some of the greatest in the game mastered their "Signature Moves", this time featuring Steph Curry, Bernard King ...
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The American Basketball Association became one of the first upstart leagues to challenge the dominance of the NBA. A ...
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One of the greatest rivalries in basketball - Wilt Chamberlain versus Bill Russell. Russell and his Celtics continue ...
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How some of the greatest in the game mastered their "Signature Moves", featuring Lebron James, Walt Frazier and Dirk ...
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The 1972 Olympics will forever be remembered for the tragedy that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes. That year, t...
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The tragic story of Maurice Stokes, a former all-star who was injured during a game and debilitated for the rest of h...
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A look at gambling in the early days of the sport, and Hall of Famer Connie Hawkins who was wrongly accused of being ...
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An introduction to the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest dynasty in the history of men's college basketball, and the...
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Some of the game's greatest female players, including Cheryl Miller, Ann Myers, Nancy Lieberman, and Carol Blazejowsk...
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There are endless stories of racism, but also humanity, in the early days of college basketball, including the era of...
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Explore the tumultuous years of the ABA, where the league did everything it could to compete with the NBA, with diffe...
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Lew Alcindor, one of the greatest players of all-time, led UCLA in the "Game of the Century" against Elvin Hayes and ...
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Title IX gave rise to the women's game at the college level, and the first great team emerged from Immaculata Univers...
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Al McGuire won an NCAA title with Marquette in the last game he ever coached. The game's top coaches debate whether f...
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Oscar Robertson joins forces with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the Milwaukee Bucks, and Jerry West teams up with Wilt Chamb...
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Walt "Clyde" Frazier was one of the first to become a cultural icon off the court. Players like Pete Maravich and Cal...
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The debate over eligibility and "one and done" started well before John Calipari and the University of Kentucky - Spe...
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After winning six national championships, the UCLA dynasty continued through the Bill Walton era. The Bruins dominate...
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Bobby Knight, one of the most prolific and vilified coaches of all-time, led his Indiana program to glory.
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The ABA and NBA merge in 1976 with the St. Louis Spirit owners taking a smaller buyout but a portion of the NBA's TV ...
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The league continues its intense ways during 1976 NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns, which c...
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George Gervin and David Thompson competed down the wire in one of the NBA's tightest races for the scoring title ever...
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In the '70s, the NBA's image was at an all time low due to rampant cocaine use and an increase in on-court violence. ...
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The Portland Trailblazers, led by Bill Walton, win the 1977 NBA Championship against the Dr. J-led 76ers. Though it a...
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Pat Summitt, one of the greatest coaches in the history of basketball, is profiled - spanning from her time as a play...
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Lenny Wilkens is the consummate underdog. Despite a childhood of poverty, racism and the untimely death of his father...
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Magic Johnson, then a rookie, puts himself on the map leading the LA Lakers to the 1980 NBA title. Johnson's brillian...
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The creation of the Big East conference gave rise to the Georgetown Hoya teams under John Thompson. Led by Patrick Ew...
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Former NBA commissioner David Stern is profiled, and the Stern era - considered to be the time in which the NBA's pop...
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Boston Celtics vs Los Angeles Lakers. The NBA's greatest team rivalry included a tough coach named Pat Riley leading ...
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A look at the first NBA Draft Lottery in 1984, made all the more interesting by the prize awaiting the first winner: ...
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A look at the strangest free throw shooting techniques in the sport's history, followed by a breakdown of the pick an...
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5-Star Camps, started in the late 1960s by Howard Garfinkel, became the place where top high school players and colle...
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A look at how the game of basketball became international, starting with coach John McLendon and later a wave of star...
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A great history of small players - from Bob Cousey to Becky Hammon, to Chris Paul, Spud Webb, and Muggsy Bogues.
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Michael Jordan takes over the NBA: the building of a player, brand, and a pop culture icon.
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Magic Johnson becomes the most well-known person in the world to be diagnosed with HIV after announcing his retiremen...
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The success stories of Jim Valvano at NC State, Rollie Massimino at Villanova, and Denny Crum at Louisville opened th...
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After a disappointing performance at the 1988 Olympics, USA Basketball negotiates to get NBA players into the Olympic...
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Phil Jackson brings outside-the-box thinking and tactics to his role as the coach of the Chicago Bulls. His blend of ...
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The rivalry between the University of Tennessee and the University of Connecticut is magnified because of the tension...
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Following the impressive gold-medal showing from the 1996 USA Women's Basketball Olympic team, NBA commissioner David...
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Gregg Popovich and the Spurs embrace the globalization of basketball to create a dynasty in San Antonio. Pop's coachi...
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With the NCAA an ever-growing, billion-dollar industry, the debate continues about whether the players deserve to be ...
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The Master takes on his next challenge: trading in MJ, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman for the glitz and glamour of...
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A celebration of the greatest big men to play the game: from international players such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Yao Ming,...
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From his time as a high school prodigy in Akron, Ohio, to being selected first overall in 2003 by his hometown Clevel...
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Seen as one of the most ill-conceived public relations events in sports history, LeBron James ends his first free age...
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With stifling defense, the early 2000s Detroit Pistons become the model for how franchises can be dominant without a ...
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When LBJ took his talents to South Beach, some thought it was a foregone conclusion that the Miami Heat would easily ...
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The role of analytics in the contemporary game.
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Selecting future superstars Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green through the NBA Draft, the Golden State Wa...
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A celebration of both the fully immersive experience of modern basketball ‒ complete with daily games across the glob...
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The ball, the common denominator, the object of a shared feeling is held, passed to and from, caressed, embraced, twi...