NBA Docuseries, Featuring Story Of Influential Black Players, In The Works From Cineflix, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Deborah Morales
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is developing a docuseries about pioneering Black basketball players including Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton.
The NBA legend has teamed up with Cineflix Productions, the company behind Nancy Buirski’s recent feature doc Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, and his longtime business partner Deborah Morales, who runs Iconomy Multi-Media & Entertainment, on The Pioneers.
The four-part series, which is out to broadcasters and streamers, will tell the story of the players who paved the way toward integrating the sport.
It will tell the complete off-the-court story behind basketball’s racial integration, beginning with the Boston Celtics’ surprising second-round selection of Cooper during the 1950 NBA draft.
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