Basketball
How the NBA has become a Global Phenomenon
Basketball in the past 30 years has become one of the most popular sports worldwide, with a fan base that covers all the continents.
The Growth of the WNBA: Women in Basketball Sports Media (Part 2 of 2)
With the growth of the WNBA, or “The W,” has also come the development of women in basketball sports media.
The Growth of the WNBA: How We Got Here and Where We’re Headed (Part 1 of 2)
The WNBA has grown in the last five years but has completely boomed this past season.
Netflix’s ‘Res Ball’ Highlights Native American Basketball Players
Taking place over a season in the life of basketball players from a Native American reservation, ‘Rez Ball’ is the story of a team of underdogs fighting for a state championship.
For Spike Lee, ‘The Struggle Continues’ When Making Multicultural Movies
For Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee, even though there’s been an uptick in the number of multicultural storytellers in movies, “the struggle continues.”
North American Basketball and Its Influence Around the World
The Denver Nuggets this week won their first-ever NBA Championship in a basketball league that in recent decades has gone global. Teams of the National Basketball Association have regularly done exhibition game overseas, where they can measure their strengths by […]
New Documentary Spotlights Stephen Curry and His Rise As An NBA Star
A new feature documentary, “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” captures the coming-of-age story of NBA superstar Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors. The documentary depicts Curry’s emergence as an undersized player who dominated in college and who now reigns with his […]
Giannis Antetokuonmpo Paves the Way for More Cross-Cultural Athletes
WHO IS GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO? Also known as the “Greek Freak” by many basketball fans, Giannis Antetokounmpo is the middle child of five brothers with Nigerian parents. Despite being born in Athens, Greece, the Antetokounmpo family were originally immigrants to the […]
