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Ronald Martínez I Agence France Presse
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The deceased Kobe Bryant could be the protagonist of a documentary in the style of the successful “The Last Dance” Jordan’s Chicago Bulls by arranging for his last NBA season to be filmed closely, ESPN reported Friday.
According to the network report, the star of Los Angeles Lakers It gave a film crew privileged access to the team’s locker room, practice and travel during the 2015/16 season, the last of their 20 years with the franchise.
Six cameramen came to cover Bryant’s last game, in which he scored 60 points against the Utah Jazz at the age of 37.
“They had unprecedented and much greater access than anyone before,” John Black, who headed the Lakers’ public relations department for 27 years, told ESPN. “We allowed them to do as much as we could within what the league allowed, and sometimes, with a wink and looking the other way, we allowed them even more.”
According to sources consulted by ESPN, it is not yet clear what will happen to this material. The images were in the editing period to prepare a possible documentary that would be released in a few years and Bryant himself would have seen them a few months before his death and made his comments.
“It is unlikely that those plans have changed,” the sources told the network.
Bryant, winner of five championships, died on January 26 with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash.
The loss of “La Mamba Negra” shocked the NBA world, which now, like other sports, is paralyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 6 million viewers
With the season suspended, the premiere this week of the first episodes of “The Last Dance” generated great expectations among the players and achieved an audience of more than six million viewers.
The documentary, which includes unpublished material for more than 20 years, delves into the successes and conflicts of Michael Jordan’s Bulls dynasty, focusing on the conquest of his sixth and last ring in 1998.
Some colleagues of Bryant in his last campaign, such as Larry Nance Jr., acknowledged in the report that filming came to put them in a difficult situation, since those Lakers had nothing to do with the global phenomenon narrated by “The Last Dance “
“It was really great because it is the Black Mamba. But at the same time, that’s also the worst season in Lakers history. So while I’m very proud to play in the NBA with that absolute legend, it’s not something I’m trying to revive, “said Nance, current Cleveland Cavaliers player.
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