Race & Basketball: Former NBA Star Craig Hodges Locked In Fight With Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Over Documentary Rights
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni spent much of the summer embroiled in a hushed battle with his It Ends with Us co-star Blake Lively.
Now, he’s become entangled in another row, this time involving race and basketball. In 2021, former NBA star Craig Hodges, who won two championships with the Chicago Bulls, struck a deal with Wayfarer, the production company run by Baldoni and billionaire Steve Sarowitz, to turn his 2017 book into a documentary.
Given the success of , the hit ESPN series featuring his former teammate Michael Jordan, the idea was to take a different look at the same period, using Hodges’ book Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter as source material.
However, the three-point expert has spent much of the past 12 months trying to get the rights to the project back after it was shelved by Wayfarer last year.
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