'Basketball: A Love Story' is 62 stories told in 20 hours on ESPN

Posted Oct 8, 2018
Dan Klores loves basketball and is convinced other true believers love the sport in a way deeper and differently than fans of other sports. That has been evident in the filmmaker’s past work, notably “Black Magic," about basketball at historically black colleges, and “Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks." But that was only a warmup for his latest hoops-related project. (Newsday)

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