Basketball documentaries

Can anyone recommend some awesome basketball documentaries? Knicks ones would be cool but I enjoy any really.

I've seen the Reggie Miller vs Knicks one, the Fab Five one, and Gunnin' for that #1 Spot. Think that's about it.

Cheers!

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Prayer for a perfect season is a pretty good HBO documentary follow the top HS in the nation last year right across the river in Jersey.

O yeah theres also the Magic and Bird HBO documentary which is my favorite Basketball doc.

The Year of The Yao

Magic & Bird: A courtship of rivals

Through the Fire: Sebastian Telfair

No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

The Earl Manigault movie...its called Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault

Hoop Dreams is good.

LeFlume said:

Hoop Dreams is good.

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Hoop Dreams is great. Long but great documentary. :afro:

Ah yeah I've seen Hoop Dreams of course! How could I forget!

Damn it's hard to find download links for some of these :/

Telfairs documentary is on You Tube.

Part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHFGI9dD5xk

smokes said:

Ah yeah I've seen Hoop Dreams of course! How could I forget!

Damn it's hard to find download links for some of these :/

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I know hoop dreams is on netflix, but I'm not sure about the others. (cancelled my account after they tried pulling that robbery, charging more money)

I've found some good stuff at this site in the past, just search for documentary.

http://toums-bball.blogspot.com.au/

Also, how great is the fab 5 doco. I think I watch that at least once every couple of months.

LeFlume said:

Telfairs documentary is on You Tube.

Part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHFGI9dD5xk

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Thanks man, watching it now

Can't find the HBO prayer doco anywhere though

That ESPN documentary on Len Bias was pretty damn good too. It's kind of a sad story, but its put together well.

The only basketball documentary that i've seen come close to hoop dreams is the Vlade Divac 30 for 30. Worth watching if you haven't seen it already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hOst_NExGI

Petrovic's story starting out was kind of similar to Lin (overlooked for various reasons), and each with a huge following from a unique fan base.

The Guru of Go, is another masterpiece by ESPN's 30 for 30!

Def Year of the Yao. That was very insightful.

If that dude wasn't selectively bread, then Jeremy Lin isn't a massive virgin.

I just saw Magic/Bird last night for the first time ever.....wow....best documentary I've ever seen. Sad all Magic wanted was to be Larry's friend. If Larry shaked Magic's hand in 1979 that whole rivalry may have never happened. Amazing documentary.

The Lebron documentary isn't bad. Shows you why he had no loyalty to Cleveland...dude only had 4 friends in his life.