After decades in the wilderness, the New York Knicks are back in the NBA finals, and with a barnstorming come-from-behind win over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, they are just one game away from claiming the championship trophy.
Netflix has delivered yet another documentary about an NBA team’s rise and fall, though this shallow retelling of the unsavoury Portland Trail Blazers misses a genuinely fascinating story.
Lauded for his supreme talent and then publicly castigated for squandering it, Australian three-time NBA All-Star Ben Simmons knows the perils of getting your heart’s desire.
Hard work and discipline took the bookish and ungainly John Amaechi to the NBA – and when his team abandoned him, to a new profession. In a 2007 memoir, he spoke his truth.
The makers of the documentary series Celtics City, on the most successful basketball team in NBA history, hoped to replicate the popularity of ESPN’s The Last Dance. They did not.
